International audienceInuit toponymy has been quite popular among both Inuit and researchers (anthropologists and geographers alike), since the late 1980s. This short paper focuses on the issues at stake in projects dedicated to the collection of Inuit toponymies. Special attention is given to the process leading to their official recognition, by territorial and provincial governments, and by the Federal government. Through this process the Inuit' mental maps of their territories, that include hundreds of named places, become artefacts : paper maps published by the Department natural resources, and computer data bases. The process also implies that most English (or French) place names are replaced by Inuit ones.Building on her own experienc...
Apart from conventional understandings of its utilitarian function as spatial labels (often eponymou...
Place names in Quebec stem from three main origins: the native, French and English languages. Along ...
Thesis (M.S.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2005This thesis examines the correlations between lang...
International audienceInuit toponymy has been quite popular among both Inuit and researchers (anthro...
La mémoire des Inuit est ici appréhendée dans sa dimension géographique. L’étude se concentre sur le...
The objective of this research is to provide resources for culturally meaningful, placebased commun...
Constatant l'engouement actuel pour les toponymies inuit, tant de la part des Inuit que des anthropo...
This thesis classifies Inuit place names and analyses their meanings to reveal Harvaqtuurmiut land-u...
Nunavut, in the Canadian Arctic, is the “Ground Zero” of acute climatic and technological change. As...
This book deals with the geographic knowledge of Inuit of the central Canadian Arctic, and explores ...
Typologies have been proposed to organise Inuit placenames in several categories based on the meanin...
L hutcure examine li'mpomnte signifiation &S norm &m kz vie du pnrpk Inuft ainsi que ku...
The Inuit of Pelly Bay, N.W.T. have been among the last groups of native people in Canada to experie...
Film documentaire en langue anglaise (et quelques dialogues en inuktitut). Tournage et montage de l'...
Apart from conventional understandings of its utilitarian function as spatial labels (often eponymou...
Place names in Quebec stem from three main origins: the native, French and English languages. Along ...
Thesis (M.S.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2005This thesis examines the correlations between lang...
International audienceInuit toponymy has been quite popular among both Inuit and researchers (anthro...
La mémoire des Inuit est ici appréhendée dans sa dimension géographique. L’étude se concentre sur le...
The objective of this research is to provide resources for culturally meaningful, placebased commun...
Constatant l'engouement actuel pour les toponymies inuit, tant de la part des Inuit que des anthropo...
This thesis classifies Inuit place names and analyses their meanings to reveal Harvaqtuurmiut land-u...
Nunavut, in the Canadian Arctic, is the “Ground Zero” of acute climatic and technological change. As...
This book deals with the geographic knowledge of Inuit of the central Canadian Arctic, and explores ...
Typologies have been proposed to organise Inuit placenames in several categories based on the meanin...
L hutcure examine li'mpomnte signifiation &S norm &m kz vie du pnrpk Inuft ainsi que ku...
The Inuit of Pelly Bay, N.W.T. have been among the last groups of native people in Canada to experie...
Film documentaire en langue anglaise (et quelques dialogues en inuktitut). Tournage et montage de l'...
Apart from conventional understandings of its utilitarian function as spatial labels (often eponymou...
Place names in Quebec stem from three main origins: the native, French and English languages. Along ...
Thesis (M.S.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2005This thesis examines the correlations between lang...