Fashioning selves and tradition: case studies on personhood and experience in Nunavut

ID:	HARP-347
Title:	Fashioning selves and tradition: case studies on personhood and experience in Nunavut
Source:	American Review of Canadian Studies , v.31(1/2) Spr/Summ’01Aboriginal Peoples Issue pg 121-136
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Year:	2001
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Keywords:	Canada, culture, human rights, woman, ethnic minorities, civil and political rights, indigenous people, Inuit, First Nations, minority rights, self-determination
Abstract:	In this essay, I focus on these more subtle and personal challenges facing aboriginal peoples throughout Canada today as they negotiate their own relationship to their traditions and cultures. Specifically, I will show how tradition has become a focal point for the expression of self-identity in the lives of two very different individuals belonging to the same ethnic group. The first individual is a middle-aged man from Nunavut. I will show how traditions associated with hunting have given his life new direction and purpose. The second individual is an Inuit woman, also from Nunavut, who struggles with applying traditional Inuit ideals about parenting and the development of personhood in an increasingly urban setting, a setting radically different from what she experienced as a child.
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