Nuussuarmiut: hunting families on the big headland; demography, subsistence and material culture in Nuussuaq, Upernavik, Northwest Greenland

• Main Author: Hansen, Keld
• Format: Book
• Language: unknown
• Published: Museum Tusculanum Press 2012
• Subjects: Sozialwissenschaften; Soziologie; Social sciences; sociology; anthropology; Inuit; Grönland; Ethnologie; Kulturanthropologie; Ethnosoziologie; Demographie; Bevölkerungswissenschaft; Demography; Ethnology; Cultural Anthropology; Ethnosociology; 20. Jahrhundert; ethnische Gruppe; Feldforschung; Minderheit; Familiensoziologie; Familienforschung; field research; ethnic group; sociology of the family; family research; minority; twentieth century; Greenland; Nuussuaq; inuit; Upernavik
• Online Access: http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/27137; http://www.oapen.org/record/342366; http://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-271371

This book describes life in a small hunting community in Northwest Greenland. It is based on fieldwork carried out by the author from 1966 to 1968 and documents in detail the traditional material culture, ways of hunting and fishing, daily life and festive occasions of an Inuit society not yet influ...