Re-activating Indigenous Knowledge from Oral History by Asta ... - 9781032774831

Re-activating Indigenous Knowledge from Oral HistoryLandscape and Intangible Cultural Heritage in Greenland\nAuthor(s): Asta Mnsted\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032774831, 978-1032774831\nSynopsis\nThis 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 two thousand stories collected between 1735 and 1981, preserved, and later enrolled in an online and searchable database. The author unearths the concepts woven into Greenlandic Inuits homes, settlements, and landscapes. These re-discovered insights challenge the archaeological interpretation, transcending the tangible to i.