When Toys and Ornaments Come Into Play: The Transformative Power of Miniatures in Canadian Inuit Cosmology
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Frédéric Laugrand
Jarich Oosten
Museum Anthropology, vol. 31, no. 2, Fall, 2008, pp. 69-84
Description
Looks at miniatures as toys and offerings in the context of life and death, and how changing scales are recurrent operations in Inuit cosmology.