Re-Activating Indigenous Knowledge From Oral History - Landscape and Intangible Cultural Heritage in Greenland

This book focuses on Greenlandic oral history and how to better understand people, their cultural remains, and their landscape through their own stories. It will be of particular interest for scholars of Indigenous studies, anthropology, archaeology, and history.

List of contents

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 Testimonies of the Greenlandic Inuit Oral Histories 6. Combining the Testimonies with the Archaeological Record 7. Discussion and Conclusion 8. Future Perspectives

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Asta Mnsted, Asta Mønsted
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 22.08.2025
• EAN: 9781032774831
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3277483-1
• No. of pages: 228
• Series: Arctic Worlds
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Oral History, History: theory & methods, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Polar Regions, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, Landscape Archaeology, History: theory and methods