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Author Sonne, Birgitte, author

Title Worldviews of the Greenlanders : an Inuit Arctic perspective / Birgitte Sonne
Published Fairbanks, AK : University of Alaska Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 471 pages)
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 05, 2018)
Subject Inuit -- Greenland -- History
Inuit -- Greenland -- Social life and customs
Eskimos -- Greenland -- History
Eskimos -- Greenland -- Social life and customs
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
HISTORY -- Polar Regions.
Inuit
Inuit -- Social life and customs
Manners and customs
SUBJECT Greenland -- History
Greenland -- Social life and customs
Subject Greenland
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017033908
ISBN 9781602233393
160223339X