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Beyond Darkness and Sleep: The Inuit Night in North Baffin Island

Beyond Darkness and Sleep: The Inuit Night in North Baffin Island

Bordin, G.

Paperback

Series: Societe D'Etudes Linguistiques Et Anthropologiques de France, Book 463

Native American HistoryLinguisticsAnthropology

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ISBN10: 9042931396
ISBN13: 9789042931398
Publisher: Peeters
Published: Mar 26 2015
Pages: 439
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
This is a place where night is dark, like everywhere else, and bright, like nowhere else. This is a people for whom sleep belongs to nighttime, but who nonetheless favor nocturnal wakefulness. This is a people for whom almost any activity seems more appealing than sleep. This is a people for whom darkness did not mean evil, until the arrival of Christianity. This is a culture which, without totally rejecting binary or dualistic schemes, tends to favor the notion of continuity between events, beings and objects: between night and day, dark and light, dreaming and conscious life. This is a people adept at radical pragmatism. This is a people for whom words have always been powerful. This is a people with a unique experience of nocturnity. This book is an invitation to enter the realm of the North Baffin Island Inuit night.

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