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Autore |
Sonne Birgitte |
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Worldviews of the Greenlanders : An Inuit Arctic Perspective / / Birgitte Sonne |
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University of Alaska Press, , [2017] |
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Fairbanks, AK |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (471 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Manners and customs |
Inuit - Social life and customs |
Inuit |
HISTORY - Polar Regions |
SOCIAL SCIENCE - Anthropology - General |
Inuit - Greenland - Social life and customs |
Inuit - Greenland - History |
History |
Greenland |
Greenland Social life and customs |
Greenland History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"Ninety years ago, Knud Rasmussen's popular account of his scientific expeditions through Greenland and North America introduced readers to the culture and history of arctic Natives. In the intervening century, a robust field of ethnographic research has grown around the Inuit and Yupiit of North America--but, until now, English-language readers have had little access to the broad corpus of work on Greenlandic natives. Worldviews of the Greenlanders draws upon extensive Danish and Greenlandic research on Inuit arctic peoples--as well as Birgitte Sonne's own decades of scholarship and fieldwork--to present in rich detail the key symbols and traditional beliefs of Greenlandic Natives, as |
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well as the changes brought about by contact with colonial traders and Christian missionaries. It includes critical updates to our knowledge of the Greenlanders' pre-colonial world and their ideas on space, time, and other worldly beings. This expansive work will be a touchstone of Arctic Native studies for academics who wish to expand their knowledge past the boundaries of North America"-- |
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