Arctic historian Kenn Harper gathers the best of his columns about Inuit history, which appear weekly in Nunatsiaq News, in this exciting new series of books.Each installment of In Those Days: Collect
Arctic historian Kenn Harper gathers the best of his columns about Inuit history, which appear weekly in Nunatsiaq News, in this exciting new series of books.
Each installment of In Those Days: Collected Columns on Arctic History will cover a particularly fascinating aspect of traditional Inuit life. In volume one, Inuit Biographies, Harper shares the unique challenges and life histories of several Inuit living in pre-contact times.
The result of extensive interviews, research, and travel across the Arctic, these amazing short life histories provide readers with a detailed understanding of their specific time and place.
“All the profiles of Inuit in this collection are interesting and the illustrations Harper has collected are first-rate.”
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“. . . [It’s the author’s frankness, compassion, and intimate knowledge of Inuit life that makes every single one of these stories resonate.”
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Each installment of In Those Days: Collected Writings on Arctic History covers a particularly fascinating aspect of traditional Inuit life. Collected from the columns of Arctic historian Kenn Harper, these volumes shed light on Inuit life and how outside forces, from Arctic exploration to the introduction of Christianity to how Canadian justice was applied in the specific context of Inuit populations, changed Inuit life in big, small, and sometimes explosive ways.
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