Language, Politics, and Social Interaction in an Inuit Community.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Language use in Arctic Quebec: Towards a political economic analysis -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Doing Aboriginal research -- 2.1. Collecting data -- 2.2. Historical data -- 3. The study of language choice: Theoretical assumptions -- 3.1. Investigating language choice -- 2 Contextualizing the research site -- 1. The research site -- 1.1. Geographical and social space in Great Whale River -- 1.2. Relations between the three communities -- 1.3. Material and symbolic resources in Arctic Quebec -- 2. Aboriginal politics in Canada: Nunavut, Nunavik, and land claims -- 2.1. The founding of Nunavut and Nunavik -- 2.2. Development of language policy and schooling in Northern Quebec and Nunavut -- 3. Setting the scene: Aboriginal politics in the 1990s -- 4. Conclusion -- 3 History and representation of the Hudson Bay Inuit, 1610-1975 -- 1. History, contact, and representation -- 1.1. Early history: Explorers, traders, and the Inuit -- 1.2. The Hudson's Bay Company and the "hostile Eskimo" -- 1.3. The fur trade and the formation of partnerships -- 1.4. Nineteenth century: The arrival of the missionaries -- 2. The twentieth century: The Inuit and Canada -- 2.1. The reality of hardship -- 2.2. Dispelling twentieth-century Western conceptions -- 2.3. Inuit-Cree relations -- 2.4. The early post-war period -- 2.5. Settlement, wage labour, and modernity: 1955-1975 -- 3. Conclusion -- 4. Language, power, and Inuit mobilization -- Part 1: Linguistic markets -- 1. Language markets and linguistic capital -- 2. Dominant and alternative language markets -- 2.1. The dominant market -- 2.2. The alternative linguistic market -- Part 2: The dominant language market -- 3. Competition between English and French -- 4. Inuit mobilization and the rise of Inuktitut -- 4.1. Inuktitut and the dominant language market.

4.2. Inuktitut language use: Education and standardization -- 4.3. Institutionalized practices and the symbolic importance of Inuktitut -- 4.4. Processes of Inuktitut standardization -- 5. Participating in the dominant market -- 5.1. Learning languages at work, home, and school -- 5.2. Language markets and job markets -- 6. Conclusion -- 5. Ethnography of language use -- 1. Who speaks what: The distribution of linguistic resources -- 1.1. English and French -- 1.2. Inuktitut and Cree -- 2. Endangered languages and the "survival" of Inuktitut -- 3. Language survey data: Self-reports of language use -- 3.1. The language survey of Kuujjuarapik -- 3.2. Language choice in Nunavut -- 4. Ethnic boundaries and social space -- 4.1. Ethnicity, social groups, and boundaries in Great Whale River -- 5. Social networks in Great Whale River -- 5.1. Informal family and friendship networks -- 6. Language practices -- 6.1. Social networks and boundary maintenance -- 7. Summary and conclusions -- 6. Summary and conclusions -- 1. Discussion of the study -- 2. Implications of the study -- Notes -- References -- Appendix -- Index.

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