Effects of Inuit Drum Dancing on Psychosocial Well-Being and Resilience

Productivity and Cultural Competence in an Inuit Settlement

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

Since time immemorial, Inuit drum dancing songs have been used throughout the Arctic to reaffirm kinship ties, decompress from the rigors of hunting and gathering, and redirect competitive behavior. The Effects of Inuit Drum Dancing on Psychosocial Well-Being and Resilience: Productivity and Cultural Competence in an Inuit Settlement explores the sociocultural context surrounding two forms of traditional Inuit drum dancing in Ulukhaktok, an Inuit settlement in the Canadian Northwest Territories. Tim Murray uses case studies and social script analysis to argue that drum dance participation has emerged in this community as a way of supporting the psychosocial well-being of the settlement’s younger population and to explore how in the wake of colonization, drum dancing has resolidified in Ulukhaktok. Specifically, chapters examine the impacts of generational isolation and its downstream effects on the lives of settlement youth and young adults, the deployment of drum dancing as a tactical resource for modulating emotional access with elders, and its reemergence within the Ulukhaktok taskscape as a platform for reinterpreting local understandings of productivity and cultural competence.

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Utgivningsdatum:2023-06-15
Mått:159 x 238 x 15 mm
Vikt:345 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:128
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781793609779

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Tim Murray holds a PhD and an M.A. in ethnomusicology from the University of Florida, where he is also currently an adjunct professor of music.

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Murray has a keen eye for observations rich with detail on multiple levels. I can nearly feel the crunch of snow under my feet and feel the drumbeat in a community dance. More importantly, he captures the tensions between generations, between tradition and technology, and between the idealized past and actual realities of life in an irrevocably altered culture. Of particular merit are his insights into psychological functions of traditional music and dance, creating identity and community connectedness, and joining the young people to a heritage that might otherwise evade their grasp. Notably, Murray himself appears to have gained the ability to understand and learn from communication via subtext, no small feat for an academic and something all scholars of culture should aspire to achieve.

Innehållsförteckning

List of Figures and TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: An Old Tool with a New PurposeChapter 1: Ulukhaktok: Historical Background and Cultural ContextChapter 2: How We Go Here: Metacommunication and the Optics of ProductivityChapter 3: Drum Dancing, Social Boundaries, and a Strategic End by Tactical MeansChapter 4: Performing Cultural Productivity and the Adapting TaskscapeAppendix A: Glossary of Inuinnaqtun TermsReferences