Inuit Stories of Being and Rebirth: Gender, Shamanism, and the Third Sex

Bernard Saladin d'Anglure's Inuit Stories of Being and Rebirth, Gender, Shamanism, and the Third Sex, translated into English by Peter Frost and published by the University of Manitoba Press in 2018, is an academic study by a French Canadian anthropologist whose long career of fieldwork among Inuit communities focused specifically on gender, shamanism and reincarnation belief. Its authority rests on that sustained direct fieldwork and standard academic publication. Its limit is that it presents one anthropologist's particular interpretive framework, developed over decades of engagement with specific Inuit communities, so its more theoretical claims about how gender and shamanic role interrelate are one serious scholarly reading rather than an uncontested consensus across all Inuit groups and regions.