"The Inuit World | Anthropology

The Inuit World is a robust and holistic reference source to contemporary Inuit life from the intimate world of the household to the global stage. Organized around the themes of physical worlds moral spiritual and intellectual worlds intimate and everyday worlds and social and political worlds this book includes ethnographically rich contributions from a range of scholars including Inuit and other Indigenous authors. The book considers regional social and cultural differences as well as the shared histories and common cultural practices that allow us to recognize Inuit as a single distinct Indigenous people. The chapters demonstrate both the historical continuity of Inuit culture and the dynamic ways that Inuit people have responded to changing social environmental political and economic conditions. Chapter topics include ancestral landscapes tourism and archaeology resource extraction and climate change environmental activism and women’s leadership. This book is an invaluable resource for students and researchers in anthropology Indigenous studies and Arctic studies and those in related fields including geography history sociology political science and education.|The Inuit World | Anthropology