A girl, a dog & some boys - Identity and sense of belonging among Greenlandic youth in Nuuk

• Main Author: Maurtvedt, Tove
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Universitetet i Tromsø 2011
• Subjects: Nature; identity; youths; belonging; modernization; pollution; VDP::Social science: 200::Social anthropology: 250; VDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Sosialantropologi: 250; SVF-3903; Arctic; Greenland; Nuuk; greenlander*; greenlandic
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/23617

In classical anthropology and literature in general, the connection between nature and man was a way to perceive cultural adaption, where nature and skills in the Arctic often have received the most attention. Up to a few decades ago, the Greenlanders lived close to nature in rural areas spread arou...