From Ethnohistory and Oral History to the Social Memory in Nunavut
In this new century, where is ethnohistorical research headed for in Nunavut? One promising path, according to some anthropologists, should be the combination of archival and archeological data with the abundant ethnography collected in this cultural area over the last decades, an approach which fits well into a dominating paradigm of ethnohistorical research in North America. It is also important, in our viewpoint, to take other approaches into account in this domain, among which « oral history ». Our goal aims at doing a survey of the main dynamics and characteric productions related to this approach in Nunavut. It is a growing internal and external trend which makes research progress less towards ethnohistory than the study of Inuit social memory.