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- Title
Les images de la parenté: exploration de quelques compositions photographiques et corporelles dans les îles Belcher (Nunavut).
- Authors
Dupré, Florence
- Abstract
For decades, imaging and communication technologies have in different ways enriched the way social relationships are practised in the Canadian Arctic. Among these technologies, techniques for pictorially representing a person are, through photography and certain forms of graphic representation, daily practices for several generations of Inuit. With completion of fieldwork for a doctorate in anthropology, this article aims to explore some ethnographic approaches to contemporary Inuit kinship. It notably looks at kinship in the municipality of Sanikiluaq (Belcher Islands, Nunavut) in terms of elective processes (i.e. how to choose, and also how to transform or not a kinship tie into an effective, ongoing relationship). This approach is applied to several practices that use photographic and physical supports (i.e. through tattooing) for strategies to create a social/kinship tie. This paper addresses the arrangement of family photos at home, its role in integrating children into kin networks, and the function of certain types of tattoos identified as "relationship tattoos" in the process of producing, practising, and breaking the kinship tie.
- Subjects
BELCHER Islands (Nunavut); INUIT; COMMUNICATION &; technology -- Social aspects; KINSHIP -- Social aspects; PHOTOGRAPHY &; society; TATTOOING -- Social aspects; SOCIAL networks; SOCIAL history; MANNERS &; customs
- Publication
Études Inuit Studies, 2014, Vol 38, Issue 1/2, p177
- ISSN
0701-1008
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7202/1028859ar