"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: Paris, INALCO, Université Laval (Québec, Canada). Département d'anthropologie, Therrien, Michèle, Laugrand, Frédéric
• Format: Thesis
• Language: French
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Ethnohistoire de l'art; Arctique Canadien; Parole; Ethno-history of art; Canadian Arctic; Speech; art; anthro-se; Arctic; Cape Dorset; Nunavut; Pangnirtung; Arctique*; inuit
• Online Access: http://www.theses.fr/2014INAL0031/document

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-)...