Inter-Nord

Malaurie, J. and Borm, Jan and Gruca, Philippe and Ferguson, Ben (2025) Inter-Nord. Hiver, Paris, France.

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Inter-Nord 24 is largely dedicated to Alaska. On the front and back covers feature three Yup’ik masks brought back to Pennsylvania by Moravian missionaries in the early 20th century. They are now held in the collections of the Moravian Historical Society in Nazareth, PA, USA, to which we are grateful for granting permission to publish these images. The front cover also includes a photograph from a series taken by Bruce Jackson during his field trip with Jean Malaurie to Nome and its region in 1997. Many thanks to Bruce for letting us reprint several of his images. The issue’s contributions dedicated to Alaska include three peer-reviewed scientific articles, two student research papers from the University of Vienna based on field work, introduced by Peter Schweitzer and Olga Povoroznyuk, and two interviews: one with Iñupiaq contemporary artist Aisa Warden conducted by Daniel Chartier and the other with Mrs Lyn Trodahl Chynoweth, daughter of a Moravian missionary who grew up at Nunapitsinghak, site of the Moravian Children’s Home on the Kwethluk, a tributary to the Kuskokwim river, conducted by Benjamin Ferguson, as well as polar readings offered by Muriel Brot. Inter-Nord 24 also pays homage to British poet and anthropologist Tom Lowenstein who passed away in March 2025 in his 84th year. Tom was notably the author of the acclaimed volume Ancient Land: Sacred Whale (1993, republished 1999). We are grateful to his literary executors to have authorised us to republish two longer excerpts, accompanied by translations into French for which we would like to sincerely thank Professor Hélène Aji of the École normale supérieure in Paris. Hélène had translated these poems on the occasion of the international conference “Problèmes arctiques : environnement, sociétés et patrimoine/ Arctic problems: environment, societies and heritage” organised by Jean Malaurie and myself at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris in March 2007 during the Fourth International Polar Year. Tom was one of the invited speakers, contributing a paper about his then forthcoming history of Point Hope, Alaska, Ultimate Americans (University of Alaska Press, 2008) published in Inter-Nord 21 (2011, pp. 149-152). Tom has published a fascinating volume about his field work, The Structure of Days Out (2021) which has not received the attention it deserves so far. Farewell to the poet! Inter-Nord 24 also features three other peer-reviewed scientific articles in the section entitled “Varia”, illustrating the fact that we are open to scientific papers on any topic in relation to the Arctic. It also contains a viewpoint. Many thanks to all contributors!

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Subjects:	Peoples, Cultures and Societies > Heritage and Culture Peoples, Cultures and Societies > Indigenous Peoples
Organizations:	Unspecified
Date Deposited:	02 Jan 2026 14:19
URI:	https://library.arcticportal.org/id/eprint/2916

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