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"Thecaribou taste different now": Inuit elders observe climate change
Foreword -- Notes on translation -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Methods -- Part I. Cross-community summary of environmental change -- Part II. Individual community summaries of environmental change -- Nunavut -- Kugluktuk -- Baker Lake -- Pond Inlet -- Pangnirtung -- Nunavik -- Umiujaq -- Kangiqsualujjuaq -- Kangiqsujuaq -- Nunatsiavut -- Nain -- Posters -- Closing remarks -- Final thoughts -- Appendix. Summary of findings -- Photo credits.
The history of the "Slave of Christ": from Jewish child to Christian martyr
In: Persian martyr acts in Syriac 6
"The History of the 'Slave of Christ' : From Jewish Child to Christian Martyr offers the first critical editions and English translations of the two Syriac recensions of this fascinating text, which narrates the story of a young Jewish child, Asher, who after converting to Christianity and taking the name ʻAbda da-Miḥa ('slave of Christ') is martyred by his father Levi in a scene reminiscent of Abraham's offering of Isaac in Genesis 22. In a detailed introduction, the authors argue that the text is a fictional story composed during the early Islamic period (ca. 650-850) probably in Shigar (modern Sinjār). Building upon methodology from the study of Western Christian and Jewish texts, they further contend that the story's author constructs an imagined Jew based on the Hebrew Bible, thereby challenging the way that previous scholars have used this text as straightforward evidence for historical interactions between Jews and Christians in Babylonia at this time. This ultimately allows the authors to reevaluate the purpose of the text and to situate it in its Late Antique Babylonian context"--
Some ethnolinguistic notes on Polar Eskimo
In: Contemporary studies in descriptive linguistics 37
Pax Christiana et Pax Islamica: iz istorii mežkonfessional'nych svjazej na srednevekovom Bližnem Vostoke
In: Orientalia et classica 45
Inuit kinship and naming customs
A collection of interviews by Pelagie Owlijoot with Inuit elders from Arviat Region, Nunavut, about traditional family naming and kinship customs
Canada's northern strategy: our north, our heritage, our future
Aboriginal peoples & Canada's parks & protected areas: case studies
Inuit iqaumanirijangit unaliksajait iqalungniinniri lauqtanginni
In: Nunavummi iqkaumajaujullu qanuinnirijauvaksimajullu ilangit naasautaa 2