Intellectual Culture of the Greenlanders
Author : Christian Wilhelm Schultz-Lorentzen
Publisher :
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 25,23 MB
Release : 1928*
Category : Eskimos
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Author : Christian Wilhelm Schultz-Lorentzen
Publisher :
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 25,23 MB
Release : 1928*
Category : Eskimos
ISBN :
Author : Birgitte Sonne
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 37,47 MB
Release : 2018-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1602233381
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.
Author : Bettina Arnold
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 28,69 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780759101371
Anthropologist, archaeologists, and art historians detail their approaches to studying gender in burial practices and in other mortuary contexts. They compare European and American traditions in this field, outline methods for analyzing gender in cultures of varying complexity and with different levels of documentation, and describe some of the successes of such efforts. Consideration is given to the relationships between gender, ideology, power, signification, and the interpretation of evidence. c. Book News Inc.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 39,86 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Biology
ISBN :
Author : Martin Vahl
Publisher :
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 45,6 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Greenland
ISBN :
Vol.1: The discovery of Greenland, exploration and nature of the country.
Author : Mark Nuttall
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 48,72 MB
Release : 2023-08-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1000921492
The book examines ideas about the making and shaping of Greenland’s society, environment, and resource spaces. It discusses how Greenland’s resources have been extracted at different points in its history, shows how acquiring knowledge of subsurface environments has been crucial for matters of securitisation, and explores how the country is being imagined as an emerging frontier with vast mineral reserves. The book delves into the history and contemporary practice of geological exploration and considers the politics and corporate activities that frame discussion about extractive industries and resource zones. It touches upon resource policies, the nature of social and environmental assessments, and permitting processes, while the environmental and social effects of extractive industries are considered, alongside an assessment of the status of current and planned resource projects. In its exploration of the nature and place of territory and the subterranean in political and economic narratives, the book shows how the making of Greenland has and continues to be bound up with the shaping of resource spaces and with ambitions to extract resources from them. Yet the book shows that plans for extractive industries remain controversial. It concludes by considering the prospects for future development and debates on conservation and Indigenous rights, with reflections on how and where Greenland is positioned in the geopolitics of environmental governance and geo-security in the Arctic. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental anthropology, geography, resource management, extractive industries, environmental governance, international relations, geopolitics, Arctic studies, and sustainable development.
Author : William Thalbitzer
Publisher :
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 26,36 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Eskimo languages
ISBN :
Author : Finn Gad
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 33,85 MB
Release : 1971-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0773592857
Author : Knud Rasmussen
Publisher :
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 22,28 MB
Release : 1930
Category : Eskimo languages
ISBN :
Author : Igor Krupnik
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 13,20 MB
Release : 2016-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1935623710
This collection of 15 chronologically arranged papers is the first-ever definitive treatment of the intellectual history of Eskimology—known today as Inuit studies—the field of anthropology preoccupied with the origins, history, and culture of the Inuit people. The authors trace the growth and change in scholarship on the Inuit (Eskimo) people from the 1850s to the 1980s via profiles of scientists who made major contributions to the field and via intellectual transitions (themes) that furthered such developments. It presents an engaging story of advancement in social research, including anthropology, archaeology, human geography, and linguistics, in the polar regions. Essays written by American, Canadian, Danish, French, and Russian contributors provide for particular trajectories of research and academic tradition in the Arctic for over 130 years. Most of the essays originated as papers presented at the 18th Inuit Studies Conference hosted by the Smithsonian Institution in October 2012. Yet the book is an organized and integrated narrative; its binding theme is the diffusion of knowledge across disciplinary and national boundaries. A critical element to the story is the changing status of the Inuit people within each of the Arctic nations and the developments in national ideologies of governance, identity, and treatment of indigenous populations. This multifaceted work will resonate with a broad audience of social scientists, students of science history, humanities, and minority studies, and readers of all stripes interested in the Arctic and its peoples.