Savoir-faire locaux et auto-construction dans la toundra. Une lecture des cabanes du fjord de Salluit (Note de recherche)

• Published in: Études Inuit Studies
• Main Author: Demeule, Pierre-Olivier
• Format: Text
• Language: French
• Published: Centre interuniversitaire d’études et de recherches autochtones (CIÉRA) 2020
• Subjects: Architecture; vernaculaire; morphologie; campements; fabrication; Inuit; nordicité; Nunavik; vernacular; morphology; camps; making; nordicity; archi; art; Fjord de Salluit; Salluit; Études/Inuit/Studies; inuit; toundra; Tundra
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.7202/1081800ar; http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1081800ar

Considered informal from a western perspective, Nunavik’s cabins mark the evolution of a way of life inherited from Inuit tradition and reveal a know-how rich in solutions to the communities’ housing crisis. Composed of objects and materials that are mostly recycled, diverted or acquired randomly, t...