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UNINA9910966100003321 |
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Autore |
Sonne Birgitte |
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Titolo |
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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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (471 pages) |
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Classificazione |
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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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Nota di contenuto |
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Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Space and Time -- 2. Seasonal Rituals and Rituals of Crisis -- 3. The Other World(s) and Its Beings -- 4. Angakkut (Shamans) -- 5. Angakkoq Puulik (Shaman with a Bag) -- 6. Conclusion -- Coda -- Reference List -- Index -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author. |
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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 |
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