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Record #155999:

Heaven negotiated. The realms of death in early colonial West Greenland / Birgitte Sonne.

Title: Heaven negotiated. The realms of death in early colonial West Greenland / Birgitte Sonne.
Author(s): Sonne, Birgitte.
Date: 2000.
In: Études Inuit = Inuit Studies. (2000.), Vol. 24(2) (2000)
Abstract: Based on examination of earliest sources of Greenlandic ideas about invisible worlds to which deceased go, argues that pre- and early colonial West Greenlanders did not share any definite exploration about realms of death, being largely concerned with reincarnation of name-souls and with fact that missionaries paradise was without food.
Notes:

Études Inuit = Inuit Studies. Vol. 24(2) :65-87 (2000).

Keywords: 39 -- Ethnography: Eskimo.
393 -- Deaths and funerals.
T -- Social anthropology and ethnography.
(*38) -- Greenland.
(*384) -- West Greenland.
SPRI record no.: 155999

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