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This is the account of one person's experience among the Inupiat, who live in a treeless land far north of the Arctic Circle. It records occurrences of healing, spirit manifestation, and premonition in her narrative in a year in the life of an Eskimo community.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Families and Persons Mentioned in the Text
Introduction
1 Arrival
2 A Dream of the Loss of Childhood
3 The Healer
4 Embattled Politics: The Ancient Master Returns
5 The Taste of Sea Mammal Awakens I\u00f1upiat History
6 The Seal and Its Organs: A Prophetic Seeing
7 Winter: Western Celebration Converted
8 Winter Solstice
9 The Messenger Feast: The Work of the Eagle
10 A Man Lost in the Tundra: The Finding
11 The Grandmother Speaks a Word
12 The Laughing Mask
13 Preparations for Whaling
14 The Bowhead Whale: Balaena Mysticetus
15 The Whale's Head: Presence and Absence
16 Rich Parka and Festival Food
17 The Whaling Festival: Qagruq, the Beaching
18 The Shaman's Four-Day Syndrome
19 Reconnecting After Absence
Conclusion: The Threads of Connectedness
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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      Publisher Cornell University Press
      Published 1 July 1996
      ISBN-13 9780875802121
      978-0875802121
      ISBN-10 0875802125
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      Spiritualism

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This is the account of one person's experience among the Inupiat, who live in a treeless land far north of the Arctic Circle. It records occurrences of healing, spirit manifestation, and premonition in her narrative in a year in the life of an Eskimo community.

      Table of Contents

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments
      Families and Persons Mentioned in the Text
      Introduction
      1 Arrival
      2 A Dream of the Loss of Childhood
      3 The Healer
      4 Embattled Politics: The Ancient Master Returns
      5 The Taste of Sea Mammal Awakens I\u00f1upiat History
      6 The Seal and Its Organs: A Prophetic Seeing
      7 Winter: Western Celebration Converted
      8 Winter Solstice
      9 The Messenger Feast: The Work of the Eagle
      10 A Man Lost in the Tundra: The Finding
      11 The Grandmother Speaks a Word
      12 The Laughing Mask
      13 Preparations for Whaling
      14 The Bowhead Whale: Balaena Mysticetus
      15 The Whale's Head: Presence and Absence
      16 Rich Parka and Festival Food
      17 The Whaling Festival: Qagruq, the Beaching
      18 The Shaman's Four-Day Syndrome
      19 Reconnecting After Absence
      Conclusion: The Threads of Connectedness
      Notes
      Bibliography
      Index

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