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Temporal constructs and Inuit mental health.

L Christie1, J M Halpern

  • 1Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

Social Science & Medicine (1982)
|January 1, 1990
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Canadian Inuit communities face rising mental health issues due to clashes between Western and Indigenous concepts of time. This temporal displacement particularly affects younger Inuit, leading to social and psychological distress.

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Area of Science:

  • Indigenous Studies
  • Psychiatry
  • Sociology

Background:

  • Canadian Arctic settlements experience a disjuncture between Eurocanadian 'technical time' and Indigenous Inuit temporal orientations.
  • This temporal conflict is linked to increased psycho- and sociopathology within Inuit communities.