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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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