Some Ethnolinguistic Notes on Polar Eskimo by Bernhardt, Karl

Some Ethnolinguistic Notes on Polar Eskimo (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783034319478)

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Some Ethnolinguistic Notes on Polar Eskimo by Bernhardt, Karl

Some Ethnolinguistic Notes on Polar Eskimo

$86.65
Some Ethnolinguistic Notes on Polar Eskimo by Bernhardt, Karl

Some Ethnolinguistic Notes on Polar Eskimo

$86.65
Format: Paperback
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This book serves as an insightful ethnographic introduction to the language and oral traditions of the Inugguit, a sub-group of the Inuit who live in north-west Greenland. A unique work, it encompasses an overview of the grammar of Polar Eskimo - a language spoken by about 770 people - as well as a description of their oral traditions (drum-dancing and story-telling) and the most extensive glossary of the language compiled to date. The book presents the Polar Eskimo language in the orthography established by the author in conjunction with the local community in Greenland, an extremely difficult task for a language made up of such an aberrant phonology and with no written tradition. By exploring their ways of speaking and ways of belonging, Leonard provides an original ethnographic interpretation of the nature of Inugguit social organization and their world-view. Some Ethnolinguistic Notes on Polar Eskimo will serve as an invaluable resource for linguists who specialise in the Eskimo-Aleut group and will be of much interest to anthropologists working in the Arctic region.

Author: Karl Bernhardt,Stephen Pax Leonard
ISBN-10: 3034319479
ISBN-13: 9783034319478
Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis
Language: English
Published: 07/27/2015
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.60d
By Karl Bernhardt
By Karl Bernhardt
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Stephen Pax Leonard is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford and also a Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. Previously, he was a Research Fellow at Trinity Hall, Cambridge and a British Academy grantee. He has published two other academic books, Language, Society and Identity in Early Iceland (2012) and The Polar North: Ways of Speaking, Ways of Belonging (2014), as well as a book of poetry, Arctic Journal (2014). He is the first linguist to have lived long-term with the Inugguit of north-west Greenland.

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