Arctic Homeland
Arctic Homeland
Kinship, Community and Development in Northwest Greenland
Nuttall, Mark (University of Edinburgh)
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
03/1992
256
Dura
Inglês
9780471947363
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The Inuit of Greenland are a traditional people whose way of life and culture are under threat both from external pressures of "development" and internal challenges to social cohesion. This study, based on extensive field research, examines their culture and responses to change.
Inuit communities, the Arctic frontier and the emergence of modern Greenland; hunting and contemporary subsistence in Northwest Greenland; landscape and memoryscape; becoming a person; becoming kin; strangers; loss, loneliness and return; sharing and the ideology of subsistence; community and development; an Arctic homeland in the modern world.
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The Inuit of Greenland are a traditional people whose way of life and culture are under threat both from external pressures of "development" and internal challenges to social cohesion. This study, based on extensive field research, examines their culture and responses to change.
Inuit communities, the Arctic frontier and the emergence of modern Greenland; hunting and contemporary subsistence in Northwest Greenland; landscape and memoryscape; becoming a person; becoming kin; strangers; loss, loneliness and return; sharing and the ideology of subsistence; community and development; an Arctic homeland in the modern world.
Este título pertence ao(s) assunto(s) indicados(s). Para ver outros títulos clique no assunto desejado.
