Ce qui est bien est beau

• Published in: Terrain
• Main Authors: Graburn, Nelson, Stern, Pamela
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: Association Terrain 2007
• Subjects: beauté; convenances; Inuit; travail; anthropologie; critères esthétiques; émotion; art; Europe; Canada; Inde; Nouvelle-Guinée; aesthetics; beauty; labor; morals; litt; lang; Morales; inuit
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/terrain/2728

Goodness is beautiful! A look at beauty among the Canadian InuitIn Inuttitut (the Inuit language), the concept «beauty» translates roughly as «goodness». Emphasis is placed on the moral and truthful rather than the visually aesthetic. What is beautiful is what is most appropriate in looks, actions a...