Beyond Darkness and Sleep

This is a place where night is dark, like everywhere else, and bright,

like nowhere else. This is a people for whom sleep belongs to nighttime,

but who nonetheless favor nocturnal wakefulness. This is a people for

whom almost any activity seems more appealing than sleep. This is a

people for whom darkness did not mean evil, until the arrival of

Christianity. This is a culture which, without totally rejecting binary

or dualistic schemes, tends to favor the notion of continuity between

events, beings and objects: between night and day, dark and light,

dreaming and conscious life. This is a people adept at radical

pragmatism. This is a people for whom words have always been powerful.

This is a people with a unique experience of "nocturnity".
This

book is an invitation to enter the realm of the North Baffin Island

Inuit night.