Beyond darkness and sleep ; the Inuit Noght in North Baffin Island

• Date de parution : 03/04/2015
• Editeur : Peeters
• EAN : 9789042931398
• Série : (-)
• Support : Papier

• Nombre de pages : 440
• Collection : SOCIETE D'ETUDES LINGUISTIQUES ET ANTHROPOLOGIQUES DE FRANCE
• Genre : (-)
• Thème : Ethnologie et Anthropologie
• Prix littéraire(s) : (-)

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... Voir plus

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.