Problems of Greenlandic Society: Report on a Symposium

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Haglund, Donn K.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1976
• Subjects: Age; Amphipoda; Animal food; Animal mortality; Beluga whales; Biological sampling; Internal organs; Necropsy; Polar bears; Predation; Cunningham Inlet region; Nunavut; Cunningham Inlet; Greenland; Arctic; Beluga; Beluga*; greenlandic
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65844

The following commentary is based upon ten papers on Greenland which were presented at the fourth international congress of the Foundation Française d'Etudes Nordiques held in France in 1969. The papers, two in French and the remainder in English, which appear in the published proceedings of the congress under the collective title "Greenland Today and Tomorrow", constitute a unique symposium on the affairs of the island. Although he attended the congress as a member of the United States delegation, the writer has relied on the published proceedings rather than personal recollections which have become diminished with the passage of time. The authors of the papers are all referred to below in their capacities at the time the congress was held. …