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1 online resource (xv, 471 pages) |
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text file |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Inuit -- Greenland -- History.
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Inuit. |
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Greenland. |
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History. |
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Inuit -- Greenland -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs. |
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Greenland -- History.
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Greenland -- Social life and customs.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General. |
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HISTORY -- Polar Regions. |
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Inuit -- Social life and customs. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sonne, Birgitte. Worldviews of the Greenlanders. Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, 2017 9781602233386 (DLC) 2017007893 |
| ISBN |
9781602233393 (electronic book) |
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160223339X (electronic book) |
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9781602233386 (hardcover) |
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