Quaqtaq

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Quaqtaq
Author : Louis-Jacques Dorais
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Language : English
Release Date : 01 January 1997
ISBN : 0802079520
Pages : 156 pages
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Dorais examines how the Inuit community of Quaqtaq, a small village on Hudson Strait, has managed to preserve its identity in the modern world. He points to three things: kinship, religion, and language.

Quaqtaq

Dorais examines how the Inuit community of Quaqtaq, a small village on Hudson Strait, has managed to preserve its identity in the modern world. He points to three things: kinship, religion, and language.

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