Inuit Morality Play: The Emotional Education of a Three-Year-Old

by Jean L. Briggs and Professor Jean L. Briggs

Book Overview

In a riveting narrative, psychological anthropologist Jean L. Briggs takes us through six months of dramatic interactions in the life of Chubby Maata, a three-year-old girl growing up in a Baffin... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300072376
• ISBN13: 9780300072372
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Great Book!

I actually met and spent some time with one of the elders that this book is about. We tend to over analyze cultures and look at them through a certain "gaze", possibly an anthropological one. However, when we do this we overlook the brilliance in some of the aspects in cultures and specifically books, we must read against the grain. If you've never spent any time in the north or with Inuit people, it is easy to misundertsand a lot of things. It's easy for a person to write a review strictly on the book and decide from one certain perspective that it doesn't meet their needs. I think this book is great and it must be noted that some understanding of Inuit culture might help you in looking at things in a slightly different context.