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By Kira Van Deusen

ISBN-10: 0773534997

ISBN-13: 9780773534995

ISBN-10: 0773535004

ISBN-13: 9780773535008

After a long time exploring Siberian cultures, Kira Van Deusen became to the Canadian north to invite many such questions, taking a look at them in the course of the types of 1 in their most valuable legends - that of hero/shaman Kiviuq, an Inuit counterpart to Homer's Odysseus - informed through 40 Inuit elders. The elders' voices have interaction us at once, inviting us to examine the original features of arctic heroism and its software to present-day issues. wealthy information from all the elders' households aid clarify interpersonal demanding situations to survival within the north and supply either useful and religious classes. Van Deusen additionally issues out exciting cultural connections around the Bering Strait, previous and present.

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