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Wandering Spirits
- Loneliness and Longing in Greenland
Engelsk Paperback
Wandering Spirits
- Loneliness and Longing in Greenland
Engelsk Paperback

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It is common to think of the Arctic as remote, perched at the farthest reaches of the world--a simple and harmonious, isolated utopia. But the reality, as Janne Flora shows us, is anything but. In Wandering Spirits, Flora reveals how deeply connected the Arctic is to the rest of the world and how it has been affected by the social, political, economic, and environmental shifts that ushered in the modern age. In this innovative study, Flora focuses on Inuit communities in Greenland and addresses a central puzzle: their alarmingly high suicide rate. She explores the deep connections between loneliness and modernity in the Arctic, tracing the history of Greenland and analyzing the social dynamics that shaped it. Flora's thorough, sensitive engagement with the families that make up these communities uncovers the complex interplay between loneliness and a host of economic and environmental practices, including the widespread local tradition of hunting. Wandering Spirits offers a vivid portrait of a largely overlooked world, in all its fragility and nuance, while engaging with core anthropological concerns of kinship and the structure of social relations.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
224
ISBN-13:
9780226610566
Indbinding:
Paperback
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ISBN-10:
022661056X
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Udg. Dato:
25 mar 2019
Længde:
12mm
Bredde:
227mm
Højde:
152mm
Forlag:
The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato:
25 mar 2019
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