Knud Rasmussen’s Posthumous Notes on the Life and Doings of the East Greenlanders in Olden Times
With hand-written dedication from publisher.
by H. Ostermann, Editor
Kobenhaven: C.A. Reitzels Forlag. Bianco Lunos Bogtrykkeri A/S. 1938. Meddelelser om Grønland. Bd. 109, Nr. 1. Sm4to – 27.0 cm. 214pp. with 22 black-and-white photographic illustrations in the text. Publisher’s soft green colored wraps with black letter on front cover and spine. Cover, spine and interior complete and in Very Good+ condition. Scarce.
Materials (edited by H. Ostermann) gathered by Rasmussen over many years from the Eskimo and government officials of East Greenland and including results of the 4th Thule Expedition to Angmagssalik of 1919, and the 6th and 7th Thule Expeditions to Southeastern Greenland 1931-33 – leader Knud Rasmussen.
Contents include: 1. The Angmagssalik Eskimo, their dwellings and their hunting; 2. Descriptions of the principle settlements and hunting conditions in southeast Greenland, winter supplies and how they are stored and the field ice; 3 East Greelanders’ umiak voyages to the west coast; 4. Game scarcity, starvation and cannibalism; 5. East Greenland philosophy; 6. East Greenland conceptions of a diety; 7. Thoughts of the soul; 8. Mysterious beings and Eskimo mentality; 9. On homicide and its causes, protection and murder; 10. Shamans; 11. From Christian Poulsen’s life-story; 12. From paganism to Christianity; 13. Amulets; 14. The black arts; 15. Evil doings, troll animals; 16. Magic formulae; 17. Rules, customs, taboo and penance; 18. Rules of life, pregnancy, children, deaths, sealing and bears; 19. Ancient sayings and omens; 20. East Greenland words and expressions; and 21. Old East Greenland names, months, winds, birds and edible plants. — Arctic Bibliography 14215
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