Inuit -- Cultural assimilation -- Québec (Province) -- Quaqtaq, Inuit -- Québec (Province) -- Quaqtaq -- Ethnic identity, Inuit -- Québec (Province) -- Quaqtaq -- Social conditions, Inuit -- Québec (Province) -- Quaqtaq -- Social life and customs, Inuit -- Cultural assimilation, Inuit -- Ethnic identity, Inuit -- Social conditions, Inuit -- Social life and customs, Québec -- Quaqtaq, Inuit, Québec 

"How, in a world that is drastically changing, can the Inuit preserve their identity? Louis-Jacques Dorais explores this question in Quaqtaq, the first ethnography of a contemporary Canadian Inuit community to be published in over twenty-five years.

The community of Quaqtaq is a small village on Hudson Strait where hunting and gathering are still the mainstays of life. In this description of Quaqtaq, based on data collected over a thirty-year period, we get a glimpse of its early cultural history, its development into a settled community, and its present realities. Dorais identifies three principal manifestations of local identity - kinship, religion, and language - that persist despite the brutal intrusion of modernity. He concludes by examining the role politics and education have played in the relationship between Quaqtaq and the outside world.

Quaqtaq is a unique and important study that will be of interest to scholars, administrators, and citizens of Inuit and other native communities."--Amazon. 

ix, 132 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm 

Frontmatter --
Contents --
Preface --
Introduction: On Modernity, Identity, and Quaqtaq --
1. Qallunaaqalaurtinagu: When There Were No Qallunaat --
2. The Formation of a Community --
3. Quaqtaq in the 1990s --
4. Some Fundamentals of Identity --
5. Quaqtaq and the World --
Conclusion --
Appendix A: Historical Events in Tuvaaluk and Quaqtaq, 1910-1990 --
Appendix B: Adult Deaths in Tuvaaluk and Quaqtaq, 1941-1992 --
Appendix C: Peterhead Boats in Tuvaaluk, 1930-1967 --
Notes --
References --
Index