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Inuksuit :silent messengers of the Arctic

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Main Author: Hallendy, Norman
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2000.
Subjects:
Inuit > Material culture.
Inuit > Rites and ceremonies.
Inuit > Antiquities.
Stone > Arctic regions.
Building stones > Arctic regions.
Stone carving > Arctic regions.
Arctic regions > Antiquities.
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Physical Description:127 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 x 27 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. 119) and index.
ISBN:0295979836 (alk. paper)
Author Notes:Norman Hallendy continues to learn from Inuit elders on his journeys to the Arctic. He is a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographic Society; a member of the World Archaeological Congress; a Research Associate of the Arctic Institute of North America; and a Research Fellow of the Nunavut Research Institute, the Canadian Museum of Civilization and the Smithsonian Institution. His writings on traditional Inuit subjects have been published in a number of magazines and learned journals. He has presented papers at many international conferences and symposia, and has lectured on the subject at Cambridge University's Scott Polar Institute, the Pitt Rivers Museum Research Centre at Oxford University, UNESCO in Paris and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. A touring exhibition of his photographs was shown in Paris and other cities around the world.

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