Quviasukvik. The celebration of an Inuit winter feast in the central Arctic

• Published in: Journal de la société des américanistes
• Main Authors: Laugrand, Frédéric, Oosten, Jarich
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Société des américanistes 2007
• Subjects: rituel; Noël; fêtes d’hiver; systèmes symboliques; ritual; Christmas; Winter-feast; symbolic system; Navidad; fiestas del invierno; rito; sistemas simbólicos; relig; anthro-se; Arctic; Canada; Invierno; Arctique*; Central Arctic; inuit
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.4000/jsa.2772; http://journals.openedition.org/jsa/2772

Quviasukvik. The celebration of an Inuit winter feast in the central Arctic. In this paper we discuss the celebration of Christmas among the Inuit of Northeast Canada. Their adoption of Christianity implied a break with the past. Missionaries as well as Inuit contrasted the traditional life dominate...