Indigenous cultures have an integrated relationship with nature, and do not view it in opposition to culture, nor do they consider humans as separate from the environment. For example, the concepts of nuna and sila and the figure of Sedna, at the basis of the traditional Inuit thought, decenter the role of humans in the living world. In 2009, Greenlandic author Lana Hansen published a »tale about climate change«, Sila . She calls for a holistic view, using concepts that encompass humans, animals, languages, spirits, memories, plants, and resources. This article aims to review the context of publication of Hansen’s tale from a point of view of Greenlandic and Inuit literature and to examine the traditional sources that it brings into play.I...
At the dawn of the third millennium, dramatic challenges face human civilization everywhere. Relatio...
Contains an introduction by Trevor Lloyd, on the changes now taking place among Eskimos of Greenland...
»It’s still a question of whether it’s a kind of crime – reading so much human into nature. Whether ...
Indigenous cultures have an integrated relationship with nature, and do not view it in opposition to...
The article presents the Greenlandic-Danish artist Pia Arke (1958-2007) and gives readings of variou...
Outside Greenland, many believe that the Greenlandic name for Greenland means “Land of the People.” ...
Currently, the traditional ‘cool’ representation of Greenland as a frozen landscape devoid of people...
Signe Rink (1836-1909) published four volumes of fiction in Danish, all of them stories from Greenla...
The essay studies Ulla-Lena Lundberg’s novel Ice , the story of which depicts the changing seasons a...
Includes bibliographical references and index.Ninety years ago, Knud Rasmussen's popular account of ...
The understanding of the collapse of ancient civilizations is important for the understanding of ver...
The Arctic is often perceived as the new resource frontier in a resource hungry world. Many actors b...
Inuit residents of the Canadian Arctic balance a commitment to the land and to land-based traditions...
This article argues that any attempt to conceive of a new narrative of the postcolonial Arctic will ...
The book addresses the relationship between the literary representations of North Greenland and the ...
At the dawn of the third millennium, dramatic challenges face human civilization everywhere. Relatio...
Contains an introduction by Trevor Lloyd, on the changes now taking place among Eskimos of Greenland...
»It’s still a question of whether it’s a kind of crime – reading so much human into nature. Whether ...
Indigenous cultures have an integrated relationship with nature, and do not view it in opposition to...
The article presents the Greenlandic-Danish artist Pia Arke (1958-2007) and gives readings of variou...
Outside Greenland, many believe that the Greenlandic name for Greenland means “Land of the People.” ...
Currently, the traditional ‘cool’ representation of Greenland as a frozen landscape devoid of people...
Signe Rink (1836-1909) published four volumes of fiction in Danish, all of them stories from Greenla...
The essay studies Ulla-Lena Lundberg’s novel Ice , the story of which depicts the changing seasons a...
Includes bibliographical references and index.Ninety years ago, Knud Rasmussen's popular account of ...
The understanding of the collapse of ancient civilizations is important for the understanding of ver...
The Arctic is often perceived as the new resource frontier in a resource hungry world. Many actors b...
Inuit residents of the Canadian Arctic balance a commitment to the land and to land-based traditions...
This article argues that any attempt to conceive of a new narrative of the postcolonial Arctic will ...
The book addresses the relationship between the literary representations of North Greenland and the ...
At the dawn of the third millennium, dramatic challenges face human civilization everywhere. Relatio...
Contains an introduction by Trevor Lloyd, on the changes now taking place among Eskimos of Greenland...
»It’s still a question of whether it’s a kind of crime – reading so much human into nature. Whether ...