"Drawing is speaking". Figurative pratices, symbolic representations, and the socio-cultural Stakes whithin Inuit Graphic Arts in Nunavut (Canadian Artic)

• Main Author: Maire, Aurélie
• Other Authors: Centre d'Études et de Recherche sur les Littératures et Oralités du Monde (CERLOM EA 4124), Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (Inalco), Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales- INALCO PARIS - LANGUES O', Michèle Therrien, Frédéric Laugrand
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: French
• Published: HAL CCSD 2014
• Subjects: Ethno-history of art; Canadian Arctic; Speech; Ethnohistoire de l'art; Arctique Canadien; Parole; [SHS.ART]Humanities and Social Sciences/Art and art history; Arctic; Cape Dorset; Nunavut; Pangnirtung; Arctique*; inuit
• Online Access: https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01180738; https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01180738/document; https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01180738/file/MAIRE_Aurelie_vavd.pdf

This doctoral research examines the themes of figurative practices, symbolic representations and the socio-cultural stakes specific to Inuit graphic arts in the communities of Kinngait (Cape Dorset) and Pangniqtuuq (Pangnirtung) in Nunavut (the Canadian Arctic). The notions of drawing (titiqtugaq-)...