Title:
Ancient land, sacred whale : the Inuit hunt and its rituals
JLCTITLE245:
Tom Lowenstein.
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st American ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1994.
Physical Description:
xxvi, 189 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
ISBN:
9780374104979
General Note:
"Originally published in 1993 by Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd., London"--Title page verso.
Abstract:
Gives an account of the lives and culture of the Tikigaq people of Point Hope, Alaska.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-188).
Contents:
The stories -- The whale -- The whale hunt: a sketch -- The land whale story -- Sun and moon story -- I. Tikigaq: Whale -- The name -- The land grows and dies -- Iglus, qalgis and cyclic change -- Time and stories: playing out myth -- Myth roles -- The land whale -- II. The Ritual Year -- Summer -- Autumn -- Winter -- Spring -- The whale hunt.