Acknowledgments


The organizing committee for the Conference and the Proceedings, a very small team with minimal administrative support and finances, benefitted from much invaluable help, from the very first to the very last day, in particular that of:


Didier Autin, Communication department, INALCO
Guy Bordin, Ph.D. candidate, University Paris X-Nanterre / INALCO
Margot Chancerelle and Julie Trébault, Musée du quai Branly
Norman Cohn, Isuma Production, Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada
Anne-Marie Côté, Trainee, Public Affairs, Canadian Embassy in France
Éric Damerot, Student, INALCO
Sylvie Devers, Polar collections, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle
Jean-François Delamarre, CERLOM
Jenanne Ferguson, Masters student, University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada)
Marie-Hélène Fraïssé, Producer at France Culture, Radio France
Madeleine Griselin, Directeur de recherche, Arctic Network, Societies and Environment (CNRS)
Hélène Halatcheff, Public relations coordinator, Canadian Embassy in France
Caroline Hervé, Ph.D. candidate, EHESS / Laval
Lawrence D. Kaplan, Professor, Alaska Native Language Center, University of Alaska
Inuksiutiit katimajiit, Department of anthropology, University Laval, Québec
Inuksuk association and Cultural Inuit space, Paris
IPEV, French Polar Institute
Marc-Olivier Lagadic, Webmaster, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Marion Lecoquierre, Geographer - cartographer
Philippe Le Goff, Lecturer, INALCO
Marie-Françoise Maffi, Chief accountant, INALCO
Aurélie Maire, Ph.D. candidate, INALCO / Laval
Marc-Antoine Mahieu, Lecturer, Paris III, Finnish linguistics
Andrea Martignoni, Editing of the audio recordings
Catherine Monlouis-Félicité, Assistant director, musée du quai Branly
François Nurit, Assistant accountant, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Robert Pasquet, Graphic realisation, INALCO
Alban Rideau-Collignon, Author of the watercolour
Claude Sablé, Reprography department, INALCO
Hatouma Sako, Ph.D. candidate, Paris VII / INALCO
Marie-Amélie Salabelle, Ph.D. candidate, Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale, CNRS
Lena Sanders, Director of the UMR Géographie-Cités (CNRS / U. Paris 1 / U. Paris 7)
Edward Scarpari, Lecturer, English language, Tours University
Marie-Claude Schéhadé, Director, research department, INALCO
Anne-Christine Taylor, Director, research and studies department, musée du quai Branly
Pierre Taverniers, Météo France, graduated in Inuit language and culture (INALCO)
and
The technical production team of the Claude Lévi-Strauss Theater, musée du Quai Branly.

Special thanks to Larry Kaplan, Professor, University of Alaska Fairbanks.


Margaux Chancel, Gwénaële Guigon, Aurélie Maire, Caroline Hervé