Institutionalizing Love: The Nuniaq-ing Custom among Alaskan Iñupiat
Nuniaq-ing young children is a distinctive Iñupiaq childrearing custom that survives to this day. It concerns a kind of stereotyped cooing and singsong phrases directed by adults to infants and young children, and it appears to cement ties of particular kin to particular children. For example, paren...
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The Arctic Institute of North America
1999
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Online Access: | https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/63975 |