Expecting the Unexpected: Canadian Inuit Training for an Experimental Lifestyle
Expecting the Unexpected: Canadian Inuit Training for an Experimental Lifestyle
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期待意外：加拿大因纽特人实验生活方式培训
DOI：
10.1525/eth.1991.19.3.02a00010
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发表时间：
1991
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影响因子：
0.6
通讯作者：
J. L. Briggs
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作者：
J. L. Briggs
在早先关于因纽特人与人之间的游戏(布里格斯1975、1979、1982、1983 b)的论文中，我讨论了这些游戏帮助创造一种危机感，进而产生对重要价值观的情感依恋的一些方式。在这篇论文中，我认为，在因纽特人对人的态度和他们对物理环境的态度之间存在共鸣1因纽特人倾向于将世界的所有维度视为一个不稳定和危险的有问题的地方，在那里你必须“尽可能地教、学、关怀和爱，因为没有什么是一成不变的”(弗里曼1978：奉献)。在传统条件下，对危险不确定性的认识是现实的。因纽特人狩猎营地的生活，虽然经常被体验为愉快和舒适，但同时也是一种
In earlier papers about Inuit interpersonal games (Briggs 1975, 1979, 1982, 1983b), I have discussed some of the ways in which those games help to create a sense of danger, which in turn generates affective attachment to important values. In this paper it will become clear, I think, that there is a resonance between Inuit attitudes toward people and their attitudes toward the physical environment.1 Inuit tend to regard the world in all its dimensions as an unstable and dangerously problematic place where you have to "Teach, learn, care and love while you can, for nothing ever stays the same" (Freeman 1978:dedication). Awareness of dangerous uncertainty was realistic under traditional conditions. Life in an Inuit hunting camp, though often experienced as pleasurable and comfortable, was at the same time a