The Traditional Sources of Lana Hansen’s Greenlandic Environmental Commitment

• Main Author: Daniel Chartier
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: German; English
• Published: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2022
• Subjects: artikel; article; spezialausgabe; special issue; lana hansen; grönland; greenland; grönländische literatur; greenlandic literature; literatur der inuit; inuit literature; nuna; sila; sedna; Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology; GN301-674; History of Northern Europe. Scandinavia; DL1-1180; Greenland; Sila; greenlandic; Grönland; inuit
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.18452/24733; https://doaj.org/article/070827ff085f4ce2bda6183b161cf991

Indigenous cultures have an integrated relationship with nature, and do not view it in opposition to culture, nor do they consider humans as separate from the environment. For example, the concepts of nuna and sila and the figure of Sedna, at the basis of the traditional Inuit thought, decenter the...