Unidad documental compuesta - Inuit Poetry

This file contains a scanned copy of a chapter of a journal which goes over the structure of Inuit poetry. The chapter was written in February 1955 and was in volume/issue four of the journal Explorations titled "Eskimo Poetry: Word Magic." Also a typewritten essay by Edmund Carpenter titled "The Timeless Present in the Mythology of Aivilik Eskimos" which examines Aivilik Inuit beliefs. Excerpt a book or journal with a section title of "Lampoon Verses." It is missing bibliographic information but references Knud Rasmussen, Roberts and Jenness, and de Coccola and King. Two page excerpt from Knud Rasmussen's Intellectual Culture of the Caribou Eskimos published by Gyldendalske Boghandel in 1930 looking at the period of 1921-1924. A list of poems and page numbers for an unknown document and on the other side has information labelled "Strictly Confidential." Collection of poems from a collection made by Knud Rasmussen. The collection was translated by Tom Lowenstein and published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. A series of Christian hymns and their translation by Janet Mcgrath. Christian poems and Indigenous poems, prayers, and hymns by authors Kowmageak Anakalak from Frobisher Bay; Udlu Peeshooktee; Akulak; M. Panegoosho; Camsell Arrow; Lazarie Otak; Simona Isskiark; Rjwerdin; Luke Issaluk; Emil Innalak at Eskimo Point; Rose Pamack; William Kalleo; and K. Arnakalak. "The Case of the Eskimo Orphan" by James Y. Nichol published in the Toronto Star Weekly. The Breath of Arctic Men: The Eskimo North in Poetry from Within and Without By Gordon P. Turner published in Queen's Quarterly. "Poems of the Inuit" edited by John Robert Colombo. Review of Beyond the High Hills: A Book of Eskimo Poems translated by Knud Rasmussen. The review was written by Paul West and titled A Poetry of Celebration. Unnamed poem with no bibliographic information. The poem's first line is "Joy bewitches"."This land is not for sale" by Nipisha C. Aqpik from Frobisher Bay. Scan of a newspaper (information blocked out) with poems from Gabriella Goliger and N.C. Aqpik titled "Wino's Lament" and "Keep Our Old Way of Life Around Us, Please" respectively. Another poem without bibliographic information, whose first line is "It was a day of joy." Poèmes Eskimo byt Paul-Émile Victor and edited by Pierre Seghers. The document is entirely in French. Excerpt from Edward Moffat Weyer Jr.'s The Eskimo: their Environment and Folkways published by the Yale University Press in 1932. Excerpt from Farley Mowat's People of the Deer published by Little, Brown and Company in 1952. Contains a photocopy of an article titled "Reassessing Traditional Inuit Poetry" by Robin McGrath, published in Canadian Literature no. 124-125, Spring-Summer 1990. Also some cards of handwritten notes. [Originally Titled: Eskimo Poetry]