Saqqaq : : An Inuit Hunting Community in the Modern World / / Jens Dahl.
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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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] ©2000 |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
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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