Beyond Darkness and Sleep: The Inuit Night in North Baffin Island (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789042931398)

This is a place where night is dark, like everywhere else, and bright, like nowhere else. This is a people for whom sleep belongs to nighttime, but who nonetheless favor nocturnal wakefulness. This is a people for whom almost any activity seems more appealing than sleep. This is a people for whom darkness did not mean evil, until the arrival of Christianity. This is a culture which, without totally rejecting binary or dualistic schemes, tends to favor the notion of continuity between events, beings and objects: between night and day, dark and light, dreaming and conscious life. This is a people adept at radical pragmatism. This is a people for whom words have always been powerful. This is a people with a unique experience of "nocturnity". This book is an invitation to enter the realm of the North Baffin Island Inuit night.

Author: G. Bordin
ISBN-10: 9042931396
ISBN-13: 9789042931398
Publisher: Peeters
Language: English
Published: 03/26/2015
Pages: 439
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.30w x 1.00d