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"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.
The Cultural Work of Photography in Canada is an in-depth study on
the use of photographic imagery in Canada from the late nineteenth
century to the present. This volume of fourteen essays provides a
thought-provoking discussion of the role photography has played in
representing Canadian identities. In essays that draw on a
diversity of photographic forms, from the snapshot and advertising
image to works of photographic art, contributors present a variety
of critical approaches to photography studies, examining themes
ranging from photography's part in the formation of the geographic
imaginary to Aboriginal self-identity and notions of citizenship.
The volume explores the work of photographs as tools of self and
collective expression while rejecting any claim to a definitive,
singular telling of photography's history. Reflecting the rich
interdisciplinarity of contemporary photography studies, The
Cultural Work of Photography in Canada is essential reading for
anyone interested in Canadian visual culture. Contributors include
Sarah Bassnett (University of Western Ontario), Lynne Bell
(University of Saskatchewan), Jill Delaney (Library and Archives
Canada), Robert Evans (Carleton University), Sherry Farrell Racette
(University of Manitoba), Blake Fitzpatrick (Ryerson University),
Vincent Lavoie (Universite du Quebec a Montreal), John O'Brian
(University of British Columbia), James Opp (Carleton University),
Joan M. Schwartz (Queen's University), Sarah Stacy (Library and
Archives Canada), Jeffrey Thomas (Ottawa), and Carol Williams
(Trent University/University of Lethbridge).
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