From Placelessness to Place: An Ethnographer's Experience of Growing to Know Places at Sea

Abstract How do we come to know the places we inhabit? What do places mean to us? What associations do we make with them? As an ethnographer and outsider I have grown, in a small way, to know places at sea along the northwest coast of Hudson Bay. In this paper I explore my growth into that knowledge...

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Published in:Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology
Main Author: Tyrrell, Martina
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: Brill 2006
Subjects:
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Philosophy
Religious studies
Geography, Planning and Development
Hudson Bay
Hudson
inuit
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853506777965785
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spelling crbrillap:10.1163/156853506777965785 2023-10-09T21:52:13+02:00 From Placelessness to Place: An Ethnographer's Experience of Growing to Know Places at Sea Tyrrell, Martina 2006 http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853506777965785 https://brill.com/view/journals/wo/10/2/article-p220_5.xml https://data.brill.com/files/journals/15685357_010_02_s005_text.pdf unknown Brill Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology volume 10, issue 2, page 220-238 ISSN 1363-5247 1568-5357 Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Philosophy Religious studies Geography, Planning and Development journal-article 2006 crbrillap https://doi.org/10.1163/156853506777965785 2023-09-14T20:49:51Z Abstract How do we come to know the places we inhabit? What do places mean to us? What associations do we make with them? As an ethnographer and outsider I have grown, in a small way, to know places at sea along the northwest coast of Hudson Bay. In this paper I explore my growth into that knowledge, and how the sea became transformed from a blank space to a place filled with memory and association. I compare my short experience with that of local Inuit, who make use of the sea on a daily basis. Where and how do Inuit learn about places at sea? And how important are those places in their use of and movement through their marine environment? Article in Journal/Newspaper Hudson Bay inuit Brill (via Crossref) Hudson Bay Hudson Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology 10 2 220 238
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