Inuit adults often present small children with difficult choices and then dramatise the consequences of the child's answers, enacting the plots that drive Inuit social life. This narrative looks at six months in the life of a three-year-old Inuit girl.
Jean L. Briggs takes us through six months of dramatic interactions in the life of Chubby Maata, a three-year-old girl growing up in a Baffin Island hunting camp. The book examines the issues that engaged the child - belonging, possession, love - and shows the process of her gro…
Jean L. Briggs takes us through six months of dramatic interactions in the life of Chubby Maata, a three-year-old girl growing up in a Baffin Island hunting camp. The book examines the issues that engaged the child - belonging, possession, love - and shows the process of her gro…
