Atiqput - Inuit Oral History and Project Naming (Hardcover)

"Our names - Atiqput - are very meaningful. They are our identification. They are our Spirits. We are named after what's in the sky for strength, what's in the water ... the land, body parts. Every name is attached to every part of our body and mind. Yes, every name is alive. Every name has a meaning. Much of our names have been misspelled and many of them have lost their meanings forever. Our Project Naming has been about identifying Inuit, who became nameless over the years, just "unidentified eskimos ..." With Project Naming, we have put Inuit meanings back in the pictures, back to life." Piita Irniq For over two decades, Inuit collaborators living across Inuit Nunangat and in the South have returned names to hundreds of previously anonymous Inuit seen in historical photographs held by Library and Archives Canada as part of Project Naming. This innovative photo-based history research initiative was established by the Inuit school Nunavut Sivuniksavut and the national archive. Atiqput celebrates Inuit naming practices and through them honours Inuit culture, history, and storytelling. Narratives by Inuit elders, including Sally Kate Webster, Piita Irniq, Manitok Thompson, Ann Meekitjuk Hanson, and David Serkoak, form the heart of the book, as they reflect on naming traditions and the intergenerational conversations spurred by the photographic archive. Other contributions present scholarly insights and research projects that extend Project Naming's methodology, interspersed with pictorial essays by the artist Barry Pottle and the filmmaker Asinnajaq. Through oral testimony and photography, Atiqput rewrites the historical record created by settler societies and challenges a legacy of colonial visualization.

General

Imprint:	McGill-Queen's University Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Series:	McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies
Release date:	September 2022
Editors:	Carol Payne • Beth Greenhorn • Deborah Kigjugalik Webster • Christina Williamson
Foreword by:	Jimmy Manning
Dimensions:	254 x 229mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
ISBN-13:	978-0-228-01105-7
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Photography & photographs > Photographic collections > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Indigenous peoples Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
LSN:	0-228-01105-1
Barcode:	9780228011057

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