The making of kinship : choosing kin, practicing relationships, and producing kinship symbols among the Inuit of the Belcher Islands (Nunavut, Arctic Canada)

• Main Author: Dupré, Florence
• Other Authors: Lyon 2, Université Laval (Québec, Canada), Déchaux, Jean-Hugues, Laugrand, Frédéric
• Format: Thesis
• Language: French
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Inuit; Îles Belcher; Anthropologie de la parenté; Élection parentale; Pratique relationnelle; Généalogie; Ontologie; Internet; Photographie; Tatouage; Belcher Islands; Kinship anthropology; Parental election; Relational pratice; Genealogy; Ontology; Photographs; Tattooing; anthro-se; scipo; Arctic; Belcher; Canada; Nunavut; Sanikiluaq; Arctique*; inuit
• Online Access: http://www.theses.fr/2014LYO20020

This doctoral dissertation is a contribution to the study of Inuit kinship. It presents an ethnography and analysis of contemporary kinship practices in the Arctic village of Sanikiluaq (Nunavut). The specific aim is to understand how kinship ties are produced, practised, and severed in a community...