- Hardcover: 127 pages
- Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr (August 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0295979836
- ISBN-13: 978-0295979830
- Product Dimensions: 26.9 x 24.4 x 1.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 885 g
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Anyone who has been to Canada lately may have seen them on T-shirts and cap visors: the obviously human-made rock constructions called inuksuit by their creators. In word and picture, Hallendy puts them into their context, the vast open land of the arctic, where they mark places both mundane and sacred, good fishing sites and doors to the otherworld. He introduces the various categories of them, from elementary directional "deconfusers" to windows framing significant places. But he offers more than a taxonomy of arctic stones and a collection of stirring and evocative photographs of them in situ. He furnishes a doorway to the spiritual and cultural realities of the builders of the inuksuit, whose name means simply "the people." These Inuit have been Hallendy's teachers for almost 40 years, and he has been their respectful, curious student. His descriptions of their land and his renderings of their teachings are simply and starkly poetic. In one of the most moving passages, one of Hallendy's teachers, Osuitok, offers some spiritual grist: "Our minds move from thought to thought, hardly stopping to turn one over to see what the underside looks like." To the Inuit, their standing stones are a way of focusing and "deconfusing" the mind, so that the underside of the world may become tangible. Patricia Monaghan
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A book that captures the beauty and mystery of inuksuit allowing us to glimpse those remarkable symbols of Inuit life in the Arctic. -- Hugh Brody
This is a book that captures the beauty and mystery of inuksuit allowing us to glimpse those remarkable symbols of Inuit life in the Arctic. -- Hugh Brody
“The deep knowledge and understanding of the Inuit… come magically to the fore in this book. This book is a treasure to own.” -- Above and Beyond Magazine --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
This is a book that captures the beauty and mystery of inuksuit allowing us to glimpse those remarkable symbols of Inuit life in the Arctic. -- Hugh Brody
“The deep knowledge and understanding of the Inuit… come magically to the fore in this book. This book is a treasure to own.” -- Above and Beyond Magazine --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Travels in the spiritual landscape of the Inuit, Nov 1 2000
By Lynne D. Fitzhugh - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Inuksuit: Silent Messengers of the Arctic (Hardcover)
Don't be misled into thinking this is a coffee-table book because it has so many stunning photographs! This is one of the most illuminating voyages into the spiritual landscape of the Inuit that I have ever come across. Through his friendships with Inuit elders born before their people had any sustained contact with Europeans, Mr. Hallendy obtained information about the uses and meanings of inuksuit rarely if ever shared with whites and nearly forgotten even by the elders of today. His extraordinary and inevitably personal interpretation of the words and phrases they used to "explain" these monuments evoke reflection on some of the larger and more universal aspects of religion and art--because another thing evident in this book is that these megaliths are an as yet under-appreciated form of three-dimensional Inuit art. They are sculpture at its most powerful, and Mr. Hallendy's photographs not only provide us with a chance to see these virtually inaccessible masterpieces, but fully capture the spiritual power emanating from them.
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