1st Edition
Re-activating Indigenous Knowledge from Oral History Landscape and Intangible Cultural Heritage in Greenland
By Asta Mønsted
Copyright 2026
196 Pages
30 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
196 Pages
30 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book focuses on Greenlandic oral history and how to better understand people, their cultural remains, and their landscape through their own stories. It offers a way to consult Inuit oral history that opens up a perspective on houses and landscapes that may otherwise be invisible to the barren eye. Working with and re-activating Indigenous knowledge of Greenland, the study draws on more than... Read more
List of Figures
Prologue
1. Who Tells the Story of a People?
2. Academic Views on Oral Tradition through Time
3. Architecture of the Greenlandic Inuit
4. Filtered Text Search as Methodology
5. The Testimony of the Greenlandic Inuit Oral Histories
6. Combining the Testimonies with the Archaeological Record
7. Discussion and Conclusion
8. Future Perspectives
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Asta Mønsted is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. Born and raised in Uummannaq, Greenland, she trained as a prehistoric archaeologist at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
