Saqqaq : : An Inuit Hunting Community in the Modern World / / Jens Dahl.

• VerfasserIn: Dahl, Jens,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)

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...

Table of Contents

• 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