The ability for consumersto choose from a range of past garments in vintage stores,as opposed to just styles dictated by the fashion industry,allows them to express their personal identity and individ-ual style
Det singulære og unikke - det har en stor værdi for forbrugeren at vide at andre forbrugere ikke bare kan gå ud og anskaffe sig præcist det samme
Western institutions are ubiquitous in Qikiqtarjuaq. In this respect, celebrating Christmas and other holidays has an additional function since it is organised by the municipality and largely financed through the Nunavut government.
invented traditions
Christmas thus establishes the contemporary community of Qikiqtarjuaq according to the old nomadic model of society
inventing of traditions
As camps converted to Christianity and the latter became more popular in the North, Christmas took over the function of the earlier Sedna festival
invented tradition?
oas reported. Celebrated in late fall, the Sedna festival reconstituted the link between the lnuit community and Sedna, the game animais, and the dead, thereby organising the nomadic society in connection to the cosmo
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We might almost say that social life cloes violence to the minds and bodies of individuals which they can sustain only for a time; and there cornes a point when thcy must slow down and partially withdraw from it [...]. We know in fact that the Eskimo arc delighted with this change |from winter to summer|
Igen, forståelsen af tid og rum er meget bundet op på årstiderne og dens skiften