Beyond Darkness and Sleep: The Inuit Night in North Baffin Island: 10 (Arctique) - Softcover

Bordin, G.

9789042931398: Beyond Darkness and Sleep: The Inuit Night in North Baffin Island: 10 (Arctique)

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ISBN 10: 9042931396 ISBN 13: 9789042931398

Publisher: Peeters Publishers, 2015

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This is a place where night is dark, like everywhere else, and bright, like nowhere else. This is a people for whom sleep belongs to nighttime, but who nonetheless favor nocturnal wakefulness. This is a people for whom almost any activity seems more appealing than sleep. This is a people for whom darkness did not mean evil, until the arrival of Christianity. This is a culture which, without totally rejecting binary or dualistic schemes, tends to favor the notion of continuity between events, beings and objects: between night and day, dark and light, dreaming and conscious life. This is a people adept at radical pragmatism. This is a people for whom words have always been powerful. This is a people with a unique experience of "nocturnity".
This book is an invitation to enter the realm of the North Baffin Island Inuit night.

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This is a place where night is dark, like everywhere else, and bright,

like nowhere else. This is a people for whom sleep belongs to nighttime,

but who nonetheless favor nocturnal wakefulness. This is a people for

whom almost any activity seems more appealing than sleep. This is a

people for whom darkness did not mean evil, until the arrival of

Christianity. This is a culture which, without totally rejecting binary

or dualistic schemes, tends to favor the notion of continuity between

events, beings and objects: between night and day, dark and light,

dreaming and conscious life. This is a people adept at radical

pragmatism. This is a people for whom words have always been powerful.

This is a people with a unique experience of "nocturnity".
This

book is an invitation to enter the realm of the North Baffin Island

Inuit night.