Horned versus Teethed and Other Modalities of Animal Association in the Inuit Imagination

For the Inuit, animals have always been not only an irreplaceable source of food but also a limitless source of inspiration in all domains: natural history, hunting, symbolism, cosmology, ecology, aesthetics, and rituals. Animals are not considered distinct entities but are instead perceived systema...

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spelling fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:50|dedup_wf_001::15a872bae35ebe4ff583de96e99b940c 2025-01-16T22:43:10+00:00 Horned versus Teethed and Other Modalities of Animal Association in the Inuit Imagination Vladimir Randa 2019-07-09 http://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/etudinuit/2017-v41-n1-2-etudinuit04714/1061433ar.pdf https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/etudinuit/2017-v41-n1-2-etudinuit04714/1061433ar.pdf https://doi.org/10.7202/1061433ar https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/etudinuit/2017-v41-n1-2-etudinuit04714/1061433ar/ https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/2961089372 https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1061433ar undefined unknown Consortium Erudit http://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/etudinuit/2017-v41-n1-2-etudinuit04714/1061433ar.pdf https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/etudinuit/2017-v41-n1-2-etudinuit04714/1061433ar.pdf http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1061433ar https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/etudinuit/2017-v41-n1-2-etudinuit04714/1061433ar/ https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/2961089372 https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1061433ar undefined 10.7202/1061433ar 2961089372 oai:erudit.org:1061433ar 10|openaire____::081b82f96300b6a6e3d282bad31cb6e2 10|issn___print::3d62932779cd9e4bfb5e9b87e53a8d92 10|openaire____::8ac8380272269217cb09a928c8caa993 10|openaire____::5f532a3fc4f1ea403f37070f59a7a53a 10|opendoar____::16e6a3326dd7d868cbc926602a61e4d0 General Arts and Humanities General Social Sciences Sciences Humaines et Sociales Social Sciences and Humanities Inuit animaux imaginaire modalités d’association équivalents doubles séries animal imagination modalities of association phil hisphilso Journal Article https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_6501/ 2019 fttriple https://doi.org/10.7202/1061433ar 2023-01-22T17:23:46Z For the Inuit, animals have always been not only an irreplaceable source of food but also a limitless source of inspiration in all domains: natural history, hunting, symbolism, cosmology, ecology, aesthetics, and rituals. Animals are not considered distinct entities but are instead perceived systematically in relation to one another, following several modalities. Some are seen as equivalents on the earth/sea axis, these spaces being considered distinct but nonetheless complementary. Others constitute doubles: on the basis of various shared characteristics, one animal can substitute for another. Lastly, in a diversity of cultural registers, certain animals are paired in recurrent series following the same logic. The Inuit imagination is incredibly fruitful when creating nonhuman entities, but, as far as animals are concerned, adheres very scrupulously to their zoological identity as established by empirical knowledge. Jusqu’à nos jours, les animaux constituent, pour les Inuit, non seulement une source de subsistance irremplaçable, mais également une matière à penser inépuisable, dans leurs aspects naturaliste, cynégétique, symbolique, cosmogonique, écologique, esthétique et rituel. Les animaux ne sont pas perçus comme des entités isolées mais sont au contraire systématiquement pensés les uns par rapport aux autres, selon plusieurs modalités. Certains sont perçus comme des équivalents autour de l’axe qui sépare la terre et la mer, des espaces conçus comme opposés mais néanmoins complémentaires. D’autres forment, au sein des mêmes catégories vernaculaires, des doubles dont les participants ont pour vocation, sur la base de quelques caractéristiques partagées, de se substituer les uns aux autres. Enfin, certains sont associés dans des séries récurrentes, constituées selon les mêmes logiques dans différents registres de la culture. Débridé à souhait lorsqu’il s’agit de fabriquer des entités non-humaines, l’imaginaire inuit, en matière d’animaux, colle scrupuleusement à l’identité zoologique de chacun telle que les ... Article in Journal/Newspaper inuit Unknown Études Inuit Studies 41 1-2 51 71
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General Social Sciences
Sciences Humaines et Sociales
Social Sciences and Humanities
Inuit
animaux
imaginaire
modalités d’association
équivalents
doubles
séries
animal
imagination
modalities of association
phil
hisphilso
Vladimir Randa
Horned versus Teethed and Other Modalities of Animal Association in the Inuit Imagination
title Horned versus Teethed and Other Modalities of Animal Association in the Inuit Imagination
title_full Horned versus Teethed and Other Modalities of Animal Association in the Inuit Imagination
title_fullStr Horned versus Teethed and Other Modalities of Animal Association in the Inuit Imagination
title_full_unstemmed Horned versus Teethed and Other Modalities of Animal Association in the Inuit Imagination
title_short Horned versus Teethed and Other Modalities of Animal Association in the Inuit Imagination
title_sort horned versus teethed and other modalities of animal association in the inuit imagination
topic General Arts and Humanities
General Social Sciences
Sciences Humaines et Sociales
Social Sciences and Humanities
Inuit
animaux
imaginaire
modalités d’association
équivalents
doubles
séries
animal
imagination
modalities of association
phil
hisphilso
topic_facet General Arts and Humanities
General Social Sciences
Sciences Humaines et Sociales
Social Sciences and Humanities
Inuit
animaux
imaginaire
modalités d’association
équivalents
doubles
séries
animal
imagination
modalities of association
phil
hisphilso
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https://doi.org/10.7202/1061433ar
https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/etudinuit/2017-v41-n1-2-etudinuit04714/1061433ar/
https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/2961089372
https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1061433ar