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dc.creatorArsenault,Daniel
dc.date2013-07-01
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-02T21:26:35Z
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dc.identifierhttps://scielo.conicyt.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-68942013000200003
dc.identifier.urihttp://revistaschilenas.uchile.cl/handle/2250/83053
dc.descriptionAt the end of the first millennium AD the Eastern Canadian Arctic became significantly warmer and the Dorset people, a nomadic society of hunter-gatherer-fishermen, had to hastily adapt to this sudden climate change. Shamanism appears to have become more important in this context of adaptation and stimulated visual art production, which became a major symbolic activity in response to the new environmental conditions. As a result, a few rock engraving sites were produced in what might have been a shamanistic context. One of those sites, the Qajartalik quarry, seems to have been the most important of all. Combining proxemic and kinesic approaches, this paper aims to discuss some aesthetic aspects proper to Qajartalik that may have been experienced by onlookers.
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dc.languageen
dc.publisherMuseo Chileno de Arte Precolombino
dc.relation10.4067/S0718-68942013000200003
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.sourceBoletín del Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino v.18 n.2 2013
dc.subjectcanadian Arctic rock art
dc.subjectpetroglyphs
dc.subjectDorset Culture
dc.subjectshamanism
dc.subjectritual experience
dc.subjectaesthetics
dc.titleTHE AESTHETIC POWER OF ANCIENT DORSET IMAGES AT QAJARTALIK, A UNIQUE PETROGLYPH SITE IN THE CANADIAN ARCTIC


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