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Author Dahl, Jens

Title Saqqaq : an Inuit hunting community in the modern world / Jens Dahl
Published Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 277 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents 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
Summary Jens Dahl analyses life in Saqqaq, a small Greenlandic hunting communtiy, and explores the changes that have taken place there over the last seventeen years
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-270) and index
Notes English
Subject Inuit -- Hunting -- Greenland -- Saqqaq
Inuit -- Fishing -- Greenland -- Saqqaq
Inuit -- Greenland -- Saqqaq -- Social life and customs
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Economic history
Inuit -- Fishing
Inuit -- Hunting
Inuit -- Social life and customs
Eskimo's.
Jagers.
Inuits -- Chasse -- Groenland -- Sarqaq.
Inuits -- Pêche -- Groenland -- Sarqaq.
Inuits -- Groenland -- Sarqaq -- Moeurs et coutumes.
SUBJECT Saqqaq (Greenland) -- Economic conditions
Subject Greenland -- Saqqaq
Genre/Form Electronic books
e-books.
Livres numériques.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781442679573
1442679573
1282037099
9781282037090
9786612037092
6612037091