Atiqput: Inuit Oral History and Project Naming - Hardcover
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Beth Greenhorn is senior project manager for Library and Archives Canada and managed Project Naming from 2003 to 2017. Deborah Kigjugalik Webster (Editor)
Deborah Kigjugalik Webster is an Inuit heritage researcher and author of Harvaqtuurmiut Heritage among other works. Christina Williamson (Editor)
Christina Williamson is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture at Carleton University and a research associate for the Métis Archival Project at University of Alberta.
Atiqput: Inuit Oral History and Project Naming - Hardcover
$62.03
by Carol Payne (Editor), Beth Greenhorn (Editor), Deborah Kigjugalik Webster (Editor)
"Our names - Atiqput - are very meaningful. They are our identification. They are our Spirits. We are named after what's in the sky for strength, what's in the water ... the land, body parts. Every name is attached to every part of our body and mind. Yes, every name is alive. Every name has a meaning. Much of our names have been misspelled and many of them have lost their meanings forever. Our Project Naming has been about identifying Inuit, who became nameless over the years, just "unidentified eskimos ..." With Project Naming, we have put Inuit meanings back in the pictures, back to life." Piita Irniq
For over two decades, Inuit collaborators living across Inuit Nunangat and in the South have returned names to hundreds of previously anonymous Inuit seen in historical photographs held by Library and Archives Canada as part of Project Naming. This innovative photo-based history research initiative was established by the Inuit school Nunavut Sivuniksavut and the national archive. Atiqput celebrates Inuit naming practices and through them honours Inuit culture, history, and storytelling. Narratives by Inuit elders, including Sally Kate Webster, Piita Irniq, Manitok Thompson, Ann Meekitjuk Hanson, and David Serkoak, form the heart of the book, as they reflect on naming traditions and the intergenerational conversations spurred by the photographic archive. Other contributions present scholarly insights and research projects that extend Project Naming's methodology, interspersed with pictorial essays by the artist Barry Pottle and the filmmaker Asinnajaq. Through oral testimony and photography, Atiqput rewrites the historical record created by settler societies and challenges a legacy of colonial visualization.Author Biography
Carol Payne (Editor)
Carol Payne is professor of art history in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Carleton University.
Beth Greenhorn is senior project manager for Library and Archives Canada and managed Project Naming from 2003 to 2017. Deborah Kigjugalik Webster (Editor)
Deborah Kigjugalik Webster is an Inuit heritage researcher and author of Harvaqtuurmiut Heritage among other works. Christina Williamson (Editor)
Christina Williamson is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture at Carleton University and a research associate for the Métis Archival Project at University of Alberta.
Number of Pages: 264
Dimensions: 1.2 x 10.1 x 9.2 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: September 16, 2022
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