Description
Worldviews of the Greenlanders draws upon extensive Danish and Greenlandic research on Inuit arctic peoples—in addition to Birgitte Sonne’s own decades of scholarship and fieldwork—to present in wealthy detail the important thing symbols and traditional beliefs of Greenlandic Natives, in addition to the changes brought about by contact with colonial traders and Christian missionaries. It includes essential updates to our knowledge of the Greenlanders’ pre-colonial world and their ideas on space, time, and other worldly beings. This expansive work might be a touchstone of Arctic Native studies for academics who want to expand their knowledge past the boundaries of North The us.