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Saqqaq : An Inuit Hunting Community in the Modern World /

In the early eighteenth century, West Greenland became a colonial territory of Denmark. Nevertheless, a large number of Inuit communities maintained significant aspects of their cultural and economic practices. When home rule was introduced in 1979, the benign paternalism of colonial days was supers...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dahl, Jens (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Maps
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Community, Its People and History
  • 2. A Communal Complex: Hunting Beluga
  • 3. Strategic Fishing, or Fishing by Choice
  • 4. Ecology of Staple Food: Sealing
  • 5. Man and Territory
  • 6. Cooperation, Exchange, and Division of Labour
  • 7. An Inuit Hunting Mode of Production
  • 8. National Policy - Local Setting
  • 9. Community and Nation
  • References
  • Index