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MARC recordKayak dizziness - Historical reflections about a Greenlandic predicament / Klaus Georg Hansen.
| Title: | Kayak dizziness - Historical reflections about a Greenlandic predicament / Klaus Georg Hansen. |
| Author(s): | Hansen, Klaus Georg. |
| Date: | 1995. |
| In: | Folk. (1995.), Vol. 37 (1995) |
| Abstract: | Describes interpretations of condition also known as "kayak angst" - nangiarneq - by Western doctors since 1864, with drastic changes in 1905 and revisions from 1961. Now there are three interpretations: Greenlandic, where it is not seen as illness, but reaction to something frightening (perhaps tupilak) involving others; Western medical; and Western psychological. It has not disappeared with kayaks. |
| Notes: | Folk. Vol. 37 :51-74 (1995). |
| Keywords: | 39 -- Ethnography: Eskimo. 398 -- Native peoples, folk beliefs and tales. 616.8 -- Neurology. T -- Social anthropology and ethnography. (*3) -- Arctic regions. (*38) -- Greenland. |
| SPRI record no.: | 135786 |
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