The Traditional Sources of Lana Hansen’s Greenlandic Environmental Commitment

• Main Author: Chartier, Daniel
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2022
• Subjects: Lana Hansen; Greenland; Greenlandic Literature; Sila; Nuna; Environment; Environmental Commitment; 839 Andere germanische Literaturen; ddc:839; greenlandic; inuit
• Online Access: http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/18452/25390; https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/25390-9; https://doi.org/10.18452/24733

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...