Engendering interaction : Inuit-European contact in Frobisher Bay, Baffin Island

• Main Author: Gullason, Lynda.
• Other Authors: Morantz, Toby (advisor), Fitzhugh, William (advisor)
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: McGill University 1998
• Subjects: Inuit > Nunavut > Iqaluit > Antiquities; Inuit > Material culture > Nunavut > Iqaluit; Sexual division of labor > Nunavut > Iqaluit > History; Iqaluit (Nunavut) > Antiquities; Baffin Island; Cumberland Sound; Frobisher Bay; Nunavut; Baffin; inuit; Iqaluit
• Online Access: http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=35893

This thesis seeks to identify the mosaic, rather than the monolithic, nature of culture contact by integrating historical and archaeological sources relating to the concept of gender roles, as they influence response within a contact situation. Specifically, I examine how the Inuit gender system str...