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

0471947369

460

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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