Revival of Inuit Bowhead Hunts in Arctic Canada

• Kishigami Nobuhiro

  National Museum of Ethnology, Japan

抄録

The Inuit of Canada resumed bowhead whale hunting in the 1990s after some 50 years of interruption as one of their aboriginal rights. This article discusses the revival of Inuit bowhead whale hunts in the Nunavut and Nunavik regions of Canada. The author especially argues that the resumption of Inuit whaling is a politically important event in two ways. First, the Canadian government publically demonstrated its political stance concerning aboriginal policy through the revival of the hunt. Second, through the whale hunts the Inuit themselves dramatically embodied their aboriginal rights, in addition to promoting and maintaining their identity.

収録刊行物

• Japanese Review of Cultural Anthropology

  Japanese Review of Cultural Anthropology 16 (0), 43-58, 2016

  日本文化人類学会

キーワード

• Inuit
• bowhead whale hunt
• Aboriginal rights
• Canada

詳細情報

• CRID: 1390001205786796416
• NII論文ID: 130005304075
• DOI: 10.14890/jrca.16.0_43
• ISSN: 24240494
• ISSN: 24325112
• 本文言語コード: en
• データソース種別:
  • JaLC
  • CiNii Articles
  • KAKEN
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