Worldviews of the Greenlanders : An Inuit Arctic Perspective / / Birgitte Sonne

• Autore: Sonne Birgitte
• Pubblicazione: University of Alaska Press, , [2017]; Fairbanks, AK
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (471 pages)
• Disciplina: 998.2004/9712
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Greenland; Greenland Social life and customs; Greenland History
• Soggetto genere / forma: History
• Classificazione: SOC002000
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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 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"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Worldviews of the Greenlanders
• ISBN: 1-60223-339-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910796396403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II