The Arctic promise Loukacheva, Natalia
The Arctic promise,
c2007, 20070630, 2007, 2007-01-01, 2007-06-30
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The Arctic Promisedeals with areas of comparative constitutional law, international law, Aboriginal law, legal anthropology, political science, and international relations, using each to contribute ...to the understanding of the right to indigenous autonomy.
Ninety years ago, Knud Rasmussen's popular account of his
scientific expeditions through Greenland and North America
introduced readers to the culture and history of arctic Natives. In
the ...intervening century, a robust field of ethnographic research
has grown around the Inuit and Yupiit of North America-but, until
now, English-language readers have had little access to the broad
corpus of work on Greenlandic natives. Worldviews of the
Greenlanders draws upon extensive Danish and Greenlandic
research on Inuit arctic peoples-as well as Birgitte Sonne's own
decades of scholarship and fieldwork-to present in rich detail the
key symbols and traditional beliefs of Greenlandic Natives, as well
as the changes brought about by contact with colonial traders and
Christian missionaries. It includes critical updates to our
knowledge of the Greenlanders' pre-colonial world and their ideas
on space, time, and other worldly beings. This expansive work will
be a touchstone of Arctic Native studies for academics who wish to
expand their knowledge past the boundaries of North America.
Edited, with notes and an introduction from narratives and journals by John Gatonbe, Robert Fotherby, and others, with Baffin's letters, journals, and other observations, and various treatises on the ...probability of a North-West Passage. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1881. Owing to technical constraints it has not been possible to reproduce 'The Map of Coast of Arabia and entrance to the Pendant Gulf' which appeared on p.xliii of the first edition of this volume.
fate of Greenland Conkling, Philip; Alley, Richard; Broecker, Wallace ...
2011, 20110325, 2011-03-25
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Viewed from above, Greenland offers an endless vista of whiteness interrupted only by scattered ponds of azure-colored melt water. Ninety percent of Greenland is covered by ice; its ice sheet, the ...largest outside Antarctica, stretches almost 1,000 miles from north to south and 600 miles from east to west. But this stark view of ice and snow is changing -- and changing rapidly. Greenland's ice sheet is melting; the dazzling, photogenic display of icebergs breaking off Greenland's rapidly melting glaciers has become a tourist attraction.The Fate of Greenlanddocuments Greenland's warming with dramatic color photographs and investigates episodes in Greenland's climate history for clues about what happens when climate change is abrupt rather than gradual.Greenland's climate past and present could presage our climate future. Abrupt climate change would be cataclysmic: the melting of Greenland's ice shelf would cause sea levels to rise twenty-four feet worldwide; lower Manhattan would be underwater and Florida's coastline would recede to Orlando. The planet appears to be in a period of acute climate instability, exacerbated by carbon dioxide we pour into the atmosphere. As this book makes clear, it is in all of our interests to pay attention to Greenland.
Short introduction to the amazing finds of garments from the Norse settlement of Herjolfnes in Greenland by Else Østergård. Chapters on technique: production of the tread, dyeing, weaving techniques, ...cutting and sewing by Anna Nørgaard. Measurements and drawing of garments, hoods, and stockings with sewing instructions by Lilli Frandsen. A practical guide to making your own Norse Medieval garment!
This book focuses on highlights (species mentioned, locality, geological age, stratigraphic positions, etc.) of nearly 1000 items published between 1821 and 2000, dealing with the remains of ...vertebrates that lived from about 2 million to 5000 years ago.
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