Learning Sealing: Traditional Knowledge Strengthening Awareness of Being Greenlandic Today

• Main Author: Rosendahl, Sally
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Universitetet i Tromsø 2013
• Subjects: indigenous studies; indigenous; traditional knowledge; Greenland; indigeneity; identity; sealing; seal hunting; education; school; urfolk; tradisjonell viten; Grønland; identitet; selfangst; utdanning; skole; VDP::Social science: 200::Social anthropology: 250; SVF-3904; Benedict; Viten; greenlander*; greenlandic; Uummannaq
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/5254

This thesis investigates in which ways learning ‘traditional’ knowledge such as seal hunting is a strengthening factor for the awareness of being Greenlandic today. It looks at knowledge transfer between one generation and the next as well as the role of knowledge transfer in the education system. F...