The Native Greenlander: Folktales of Greenland - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0996748083 ISBN 13: 9780996748087

Verlag: International Polar Institute Press, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

The remarkable oral tradition of the Inuit, unaffected by few outside influences, is traced through their history on the land and addresses both spirtual and cultural practices. Many of the stories describe the clashes between the Norse and the Inuit. Collected by Heinrich Rink,this is the translation of the first book printed in Greenland. Rink recognized that some of the tales existed in the realm of pure myth, but that others represented recollections, passed from one generation to the next, of events of many centuries earlier. Translated from Danish.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Heinrich Rink began his career as an administrator based at the Moravian mission at Godthaab, on the southwest coast of Greenland, in 1848. He was determined to collect legends and folk tales of Greenland natives and publish them, an ambition achieved in a five year span. Rink collected oral tales from throughout Greenland, although mainly in the southern area he administered. He was a renowned geologist, promoter of the Inuit people and scholar.

Illustrations are by Aron of Kangeq, a sealer and walrus hunter who lived at the Moravian mission at the small trading station of Kangeq. Aron was stricken with tuberculosis (which was epidemic in Greenland in that era) and confined to bed. His illustrations are famous for depicting these early encounters.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: International Polar Institute Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0996748083
• ISBN 13: 9780996748087
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zeichner: Aron Of Kangeq
• Anzahl der Seiten: 191
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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