Inuit Stories of Being and Rebirth
Gender, Shamanism, and the Third Sex
Ujarak, Iqallijuq, and Kupaaq were elders from the Inuit community on Igloolik Island in Nunavut. The three elders, among others, shared with Bernard Saladin d'Anglure the narratives which make up the heart of Inuit Stories of Being and Rebirth. Through their words, and historical sources recorded by Franz Boas and Knud Rasmussen, Saladin d'Anglure examines the Inuit notion of personhood and its relationship to cosmology and mythology.Central to these stories are womb memories, narratives of birth and reincarnation, and the concept of the third sex-an intermediate identity between male and female. As explained through first-person accounts an…
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Weitere Autoren: Lévi-Strauss, Claude (Vorb.)
- ISBN: 978-0-88755-557-2
- EAN: 9780887555572
- Produktnummer: 32810426
- Verlag: University of Manitoba Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 10'273 KB
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