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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Words of the Inuit
LOCATION:Online
DESCRIPTION:Words of the Inuit\n\nVIRTUAL LAUNCHDate: Monday, September 28th 2020\nTime
 : 6:00pm–8:00pm CDT\nLocation: Online Event\n\nRegister Here  (https://uofm
 press.ca/events/entry/words-of-the-inuit-launch)\n\nPlease join us for the 
 virtual launch of Louis-Jacques Dorais’s Words of the Inuit: A Semantic Str
 oll through a Northern Culture (https://uofmpress.ca/books/detail/words-of-
 the-inuit). Christopher Trott, editor of the Contemporary Studies on the No
 rth series, will moderate.\n\nA Q&A will follow the presentation. Send 
 questions or comments to This email address is being protected from spambot
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 eritage and identity. An appendix on the polysynthetic character of Inuit l
 anguages includes more detailed grammatical description of interest to more
  specialist readers.\nOrganized thematically, the book tours the histories 
 and meanings of the words to illuminate numerous aspects of Inuit culture, 
 including environment and the land; animals and subsistence activities; hum
 ans and spirits; family, kinship, and naming; the human body; and socializi
 ng with other people in the contemporary world. It concludes with a reflect
 ion on the usefulness for modern Inuit—especially youth and others looking 
 to strengthen their cultural identity —to know about the underlying meaning
 s embedded in their language and culture.\n\n \n \nLouis-Jacques Dorais is 
 a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology, Université Laval. S
 ince the mid-sixties, a period of time when he became fluent in Inuktitut, 
 he has travelled almost yearly to Inuit communities in Canada, Alaska and K
 alaallit Nunaat (Greenland), in order to conduct research and teach Inuit l
 inguistics to local students.\n\nChristopher Trott has conducted research w
 ith Inuit on Baffin Island focussing on the areas of kinship and social org
 anization. He currently teaches in the Native Studies Department at the Uni
 versity of Manitoba and is the Warden and Vice-Chancellor of St John’s Coll
 ege.\n\n\n \nUniversity of Manitoba Press\n301 St. John’s College\nUniversi
 ty of Manitoba\nWinnipeg, MB   R3T 2M5   Canada\n
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 he Inuit<br /><br />VIRTUAL LAUNCH</span></strong></h3><p><strong>Date:</st
 rong>&nbsp;Monday, September 28th 2020<br /><strong>Time:&nbsp;</strong>6:0
 0pm–8:00pm CDT<br /><strong>Location:</strong>&nbsp;Online Event<br /><br /
 ><a href="https://uofmpress.ca/events/entry/words-of-the-inuit-launch" targ
 et="_blank" rel="noopener">Register Here </a><br /><br />Please join us for
  the virtual launch of Louis-Jacques Dorais’s <a href="https://uofmpress.ca
 /books/detail/words-of-the-inuit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Words of t
 he Inuit: A Semantic Stroll through a Northern Culture</a>. Christopher Tro
 tt, editor of the Contemporary Studies on the North series, will moderate.<
 br /><br />A Q&amp;A will follow the presentation. Send questions or commen
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 eft;" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>About the Book</strong><br
  />Words of the Inuit is an important compendium of Inuit culture illustrat
 ed through Inuit words. It brings the sum of the author’s decades of experi
 ence and engagement with Inuit and Inuktitut to bear on what he fashions as
  an amiable, leisurely stroll through words and meanings.<br />Inuit words 
 are often more complex than English words and frequently contain small unit
 s of meaning that add up to convey a larger sensibility. Dorais’ lexical an
 d semantic analyses and reconstructions are not overly technical, yet they 
 reliably evince connections and underlying significations that allow for an
  in-depth reflection on the richness of Inuit linguistic and cultural herit
 age and identity. An appendix on the polysynthetic character of Inuit langu
 ages includes more detailed grammatical description of interest to more spe
 cialist readers.<br />Organized thematically, the book tours the histories 
 and meanings of the words to illuminate numerous aspects of Inuit culture, 
 including environment and the land; animals and subsistence activities; hum
 ans and spirits; family, kinship, and naming; the human body; and socializi
 ng with other people in the contemporary world. It concludes with a reflect
 ion on the usefulness for modern Inuit—especially youth and others looking 
 to strengthen their cultural identity —to know about the underlying meaning
 s embedded in their language and culture.</p><p><br />&nbsp;</p><div><img s
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 _nono.jpg" alt="" width="187" height="141" style="margin-left: 15px; float:
  right;" /></div><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Louis-Jacques Dorais is a Professor Emerit
 us in the Department of Anthropology, Université Laval. Since the mid-sixti
 es, a period of time when he became fluent in Inuktitut, he has travelled a
 lmost yearly to Inuit communities in Canada, Alaska and Kalaallit Nunaat (G
 reenland), in order to conduct research and teach Inuit linguistics to loca
 l students.<br /><br />Christopher Trott has conducted research with Inuit 
 on Baffin Island focussing on the areas of kinship and social organization.
  He currently teaches in the Native Studies Department at the University of
  Manitoba and is the Warden and Vice-Chancellor of St John’s College.<br />
 <br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>University of Manitoba Press<br />301 St. John’s 
 College<br />University of Manitoba<br />Winnipeg, MB &nbsp; R3T 2M5 &nbsp;
  Canada</p>
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