Qummut qukiria! : art, culture, and sovereignty across Inuit Nunaat and Sápmi : mobilizing the circumpolar north / edited by Anna Hudson, Heather Igloliorte, and Jan-Erik Lundstrom.

Qummut qukiria! : art, culture, and sovereignty across Inuit Nunaat and Sápmi : mobilizing the circumpolar north / edited by Anna Hudson, Heather Igloliorte, and Jan-Erik Lundstrom.

Alternate Title
Art, culture, and sovereignty across Inuit Nunaat and Sápmi : mobilizing the circumpolar north

Publication Date
2022

Publication Information
Fredericton, N.B. : Goose Lane Editions,

Physical Description
448 p.

Subject Term
Arts -- Canada.
 
Arts -- Arctic regions.
 
Arts -- Scandinavia.
 
Indigenous art -- Canada.
 
Indigenous arts.

Geographic Term
Arctic regions.
 
Canada, Northern.
 
Scandinavia.

Additional Contributors
Hudson, Anna, 1963-
 
Igloliorte, Heather L.
 
Lundström, Jan-Erik.

Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.

Summary
Qummut Qukiria! celebrates art and culture within and beyond traditional Inuit and SÔami homelands in the Circumpolar Arctic -- from the recovery of traditional practices such as storytelling and skin sewing to the development of innovative new art forms such as throatboxing (a hybrid of traditional Inuit throat singing and beatboxing). In this illuminating book, curators, scholars, artists, and activists from Inuit Nunangat, Kalaallit Nunaat, SÔapmi, Canada, and Scandinavia address topics as diverse as SÔami rematriation and the revival of the lÔadjogahpir (a traditional woman's headgear), the experience of bringing Inuit stone carving to a workshop for inner-city youth, and the decolonizing potential of Traditional Knowledge and its role in contemporary design and beyond. Qummut Qukiria! showcases the thriving art and culture of the Indigenous Circumpolar peoples in the present and demonstrates its importance for the revitalization of language, social well-being, and cultural identity.

Language
English

ISBN
9781773102245


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