Songlines and Touchstones: A study of perinatal health and culture in Greenland
This paper aims to focus on how family and community in Greenland perceive support-giving during the perinatal period. It explores Greenlanders use of storytelling as a health-promoting tool in the perinatal period. It is research set in Greenland, but analysed in a larger context. Using an ethnogra...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/117718011300900107 2024-10-20T14:09:02+00:00 Songlines and Touchstones: A study of perinatal health and culture in Greenland Montgomery-Andersen, Ruth Borup, Ina K. 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/117718011300900107 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/117718011300900107 en eng SAGE Publications https://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples volume 9, issue 1, page 87-101 ISSN 1177-1801 1174-1740 journal-article 2013 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/117718011300900107 2024-10-08T04:09:57Z This paper aims to focus on how family and community in Greenland perceive support-giving during the perinatal period. It explores Greenlanders use of storytelling as a health-promoting tool in the perinatal period. It is research set in Greenland, but analysed in a larger context. Using an ethnographic approach to subject matter, the paper is based on a series of qualitative interviews and focus groups conducted between 2003 and 2011 with mothers and fathers. Ethnographic content analysis, interviews and dialogues with Culture Bearers were used to analyse and set the stories into a cultural perspective. The child was described as the centre of the family and the family as the bedrock of life. The mothers, fathers and Culture Bearers presented three main concepts in their stories: 1) my family … a safe harbour, 2) the child as the centre of the family, and 3) the equal sharing of burden and joy. Article in Journal/Newspaper Greenland greenlander* SAGE Publications Greenland AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples 9 1 87 101 |
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This paper aims to focus on how family and community in Greenland perceive support-giving during the perinatal period. It explores Greenlanders use of storytelling as a health-promoting tool in the perinatal period. It is research set in Greenland, but analysed in a larger context. Using an ethnographic approach to subject matter, the paper is based on a series of qualitative interviews and focus groups conducted between 2003 and 2011 with mothers and fathers. Ethnographic content analysis, interviews and dialogues with Culture Bearers were used to analyse and set the stories into a cultural perspective. The child was described as the centre of the family and the family as the bedrock of life. The mothers, fathers and Culture Bearers presented three main concepts in their stories: 1) my family … a safe harbour, 2) the child as the centre of the family, and 3) the equal sharing of burden and joy. |
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