THE AESTHETIC POWER OF ANCIENT DORSET IMAGES AT QAJARTALIK, A UNIQUE PETROGLYPH SITE IN THE CANADIAN ARCTIC

At 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 s...

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Autor principal:	Arsenault,Daniel
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino 2013
Materias:	canadian Arctic rock art petroglyphs Dorset Culture shamanism ritual experience aesthetics
Acceso en línea:	http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-68942013000200003
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0718-689420130002000032014-01-07THE AESTHETIC POWER OF ANCIENT DORSET IMAGES AT QAJARTALIK, A UNIQUE PETROGLYPH SITE IN THE CANADIAN ARCTICArsenault,Daniel canadian Arctic rock art petroglyphs Dorset Culture shamanism ritual experience aesthetics At 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.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessMuseo Chileno de Arte PrecolombinoBoletín del Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino v.18 n.2 20132013-07-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-68942013000200003en10.4067/S0718-68942013000200003
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description	At 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.
author	Arsenault,Daniel
author_facet	Arsenault,Daniel
author_sort	Arsenault,Daniel
title	THE AESTHETIC POWER OF ANCIENT DORSET IMAGES AT QAJARTALIK, A UNIQUE PETROGLYPH SITE IN THE CANADIAN ARCTIC
title_short	THE AESTHETIC POWER OF ANCIENT DORSET IMAGES AT QAJARTALIK, A UNIQUE PETROGLYPH SITE IN THE CANADIAN ARCTIC
title_full	THE AESTHETIC POWER OF ANCIENT DORSET IMAGES AT QAJARTALIK, A UNIQUE PETROGLYPH SITE IN THE CANADIAN ARCTIC
title_fullStr	THE AESTHETIC POWER OF ANCIENT DORSET IMAGES AT QAJARTALIK, A UNIQUE PETROGLYPH SITE IN THE CANADIAN ARCTIC
title_full_unstemmed	THE AESTHETIC POWER OF ANCIENT DORSET IMAGES AT QAJARTALIK, A UNIQUE PETROGLYPH SITE IN THE CANADIAN ARCTIC
title_sort	aesthetic power of ancient dorset images at qajartalik, a unique petroglyph site in the canadian arctic
publisher	Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino
publishDate	2013
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THE AESTHETIC POWER OF ANCIENT DORSET IMAGES AT QAJARTALIK, A UNIQUE PETROGLYPH SITE IN THE CANADIAN ARCTIC

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