Nuussuarmiut (Vol. 345):Hunting families on the big headland

• Main Author: Keld Hansen (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Museum Tusculanum Press 2008
• Series: Monographs on Greenland | Meddelelser om Grønland
• Subjects: Anthropology; familiestudier; fieldwork; 20th century; demografi; grønland; greenland; 20. årh.; antropologi og etnologi; family, studies of the; english; anthropology and ethnology; inuit; fiskeri; hunting; demography; fishing; feltarbejde; jagt; engelsk
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

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...