Living on the Land: Change Among the Inuit of Baffin Island

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As recently as three decades ago most Inuit lived an approach to life much like that of their forbearers: “living at the land,” with the men hunting consistent with time-honoured methods and the women performing the same round of day by day tasks that their grandmothers and great grandmothers had done.

Today these people usually live in settlements, some of them distinctly urban in character. Adults work for wages and use electric appliances, children listen to stereos and run about the settlement on motorbikes. As anthropologist John Matthiasson observes, “the Inuit child of lately may look back in fond nostalgia on the way of life of his parents when they lived at the land, but he cannot return to it.” Matthiasson, who has remained in contact with the Tununermiut for the reason that 1960s, offers both a vivid picture of Inuit society as it used to be and an illuminating take a look at the nature and the extent of the enormous changes of the past thirty years.

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