Recueillir les toponymes inuit. Pour quoi faire ?
International audience Inuit toponymy has been quite popular among both Inuit and researchers (anthropologists and geographers alike), since the late 1980s. This short paper focuses on the issues at stake in projects dedicated to the collection of Inuit toponymies. Special attention is given to the...
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ftccsdartic:oai:HAL:halshs-00259160v1 2023-05-15T15:03:51+02:00 Recueillir les toponymes inuit. Pour quoi faire ? Collignon, Béatrice Géographie-cités (GC (UMR_8504)) Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7) 2005 https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00259160 fr fre HAL CCSD Universite Laval halshs-00259160 https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00259160 ISSN: 0701-1008 EISSN: 1708-5268 Etudes inuit. Inuit studies https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00259160 Etudes inuit. Inuit studies, Universite Laval, 2005, 28 (2), pp.89-106 Toponymic surveys fieldwork memory territory sense of place landscape cultural geography knowledge transmission Arctic place names Enquêtes toponymiques mémoire territoire paysage géographie culturelle transmission des savoirs Arctique Inuit terrain lieux [SHS.GEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Geography [SHS.ANTHRO-SE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Social Anthropology and ethnology info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2005 ftccsdartic 2021-01-24T00:24:59Z International audience Inuit toponymy has been quite popular among both Inuit and researchers (anthropologists and geographers alike), since the late 1980s. This short paper focuses on the issues at stake in projects dedicated to the collection of Inuit toponymies. Special attention is given to the process leading to their official recognition, by territorial and provincial governments, and by the Federal government. Through this process the Inuit' mental maps of their territories, that include hundreds of named places, become artefacts : paper maps published by the Department natural resources, and computer data bases. The process also implies that most English (or French) place names are replaced by Inuit ones. Building on her own experience of collecting place names among the Inuinnait (western central arctic, Nunavut and NWT), the author organises her discussion in three steps. First, a story is told : that of the difficulties met in having the 1007 Inuinnait place names collected in 1991-1992 processed in order to be recognised as official. Then, four highlights of a meeting held in Holman on August 12, 2003 are analysed. The meeting's goal was to review a set of blue-print maps sent by the Territorial Toponymy Program of the NWT. The maps showed all the Inuinnait place names that had been collected within today's NWT. This leads to the third step which questions the bureaucratic process of official recognition, the methods and scales adopted when conducting place name projects, and the problems related to transcribing a knowledge that is only kept alive as long as it is directly shared, through acts or words. Constatant l'engouement actuel pour les toponymies inuit, tant de la part des Inuit que des anthropologues et géographes, cette note de recherche propose une réflexion sur les enjeux des opérations de recueil des séries toponymiques inuit, qui se sont multipliées depuis la fin des années 1980. On considère notamment les processus de reconnaissance officielle par les gouvernements territoriaux ou ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctique* inuit Nunavut Archive ouverte HAL (Hyper Article en Ligne, CCSD - Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) Arctic Nunavut |
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Toponymic surveys fieldwork memory territory sense of place landscape cultural geography knowledge transmission Arctic place names Enquêtes toponymiques mémoire territoire paysage géographie culturelle transmission des savoirs Arctique Inuit terrain lieux [SHS.GEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Geography [SHS.ANTHRO-SE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Social Anthropology and ethnology |
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Toponymic surveys fieldwork memory territory sense of place landscape cultural geography knowledge transmission Arctic place names Enquêtes toponymiques mémoire territoire paysage géographie culturelle transmission des savoirs Arctique Inuit terrain lieux [SHS.GEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Geography [SHS.ANTHRO-SE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Social Anthropology and ethnology Collignon, Béatrice Recueillir les toponymes inuit. Pour quoi faire ? |
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Toponymic surveys fieldwork memory territory sense of place landscape cultural geography knowledge transmission Arctic place names Enquêtes toponymiques mémoire territoire paysage géographie culturelle transmission des savoirs Arctique Inuit terrain lieux [SHS.GEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Geography [SHS.ANTHRO-SE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Social Anthropology and ethnology |
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International audience Inuit toponymy has been quite popular among both Inuit and researchers (anthropologists and geographers alike), since the late 1980s. This short paper focuses on the issues at stake in projects dedicated to the collection of Inuit toponymies. Special attention is given to the process leading to their official recognition, by territorial and provincial governments, and by the Federal government. Through this process the Inuit' mental maps of their territories, that include hundreds of named places, become artefacts : paper maps published by the Department natural resources, and computer data bases. The process also implies that most English (or French) place names are replaced by Inuit ones. Building on her own experience of collecting place names among the Inuinnait (western central arctic, Nunavut and NWT), the author organises her discussion in three steps. First, a story is told : that of the difficulties met in having the 1007 Inuinnait place names collected in 1991-1992 processed in order to be recognised as official. Then, four highlights of a meeting held in Holman on August 12, 2003 are analysed. The meeting's goal was to review a set of blue-print maps sent by the Territorial Toponymy Program of the NWT. The maps showed all the Inuinnait place names that had been collected within today's NWT. This leads to the third step which questions the bureaucratic process of official recognition, the methods and scales adopted when conducting place name projects, and the problems related to transcribing a knowledge that is only kept alive as long as it is directly shared, through acts or words. Constatant l'engouement actuel pour les toponymies inuit, tant de la part des Inuit que des anthropologues et géographes, cette note de recherche propose une réflexion sur les enjeux des opérations de recueil des séries toponymiques inuit, qui se sont multipliées depuis la fin des années 1980. On considère notamment les processus de reconnaissance officielle par les gouvernements territoriaux ou ... |
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Recueillir les toponymes inuit. Pour quoi faire ? |
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Recueillir les toponymes inuit. Pour quoi faire ? |
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ISSN: 0701-1008 EISSN: 1708-5268 Etudes inuit. Inuit studies https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00259160 Etudes inuit. Inuit studies, Universite Laval, 2005, 28 (2), pp.89-106 |
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