Read my toes
Francis Spufford, 5 August 1993
The Things That Were Said of Them: Shaman Stories and Oral Histories of the Tikigaq People
told by Asatchaq, translated by Tukummiq and Tom Lowenstein.
California, 225 pp., £18.95, February 1993,0 520 06569 7 Show More
told by Asatchaq, translated by Tukummiq and Tom Lowenstein.
California, 225 pp., £18.95, February 1993,
Ancient Land, Sacred Whale: The Inuit Hunt and its Rituals
by Tom Lowenstein.
Bloomsbury, 189 pp., £20, April 1993,0 7475 1341 4 Show More
by Tom Lowenstein.
Bloomsbury, 189 pp., £20, April 1993,
“... houses, with a school and an incinerator. But, remarkably, he was in time to act as auditor to Asatchaq, a peremptory, formidable old man who had systematically memorised all he could of Tikigaq’s traditional learning. He wanted his talk to be recorded, hoping rather sadly that some powerful outside agency could arrange for the lost pattern of things to ... ”
