Give Me Winter, Give Me Dogs

Knud Rasmussen and the Fifth Thule Expedition

Kenn Harper (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

300 Seiten

2024
Inhabit Media Inc (Verlag)
978-1-77227-550-6 (ISBN)

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In Give Me Winter, Give Me Dogs, Arctic historian Kenn Harper takes readers alongside Knud Rasmussen’s spearheading Fifth Thule Expedition. From 1921 to 1924, Rasmussen trekked across Canada’s Arctic to study Inuit there and record their stories, and perhaps most importantly to him, to immerse himself in their culture and to know them. With the support of his colleagues and Inuit guides, Rasmussen recorded the cultural practices of various Inuit groups, from taboos and shamanism to the introduction of Christianity; traditional stories and practices, and adventures and misadventures that only an Arctic landscape can provide.

Including historic photographs and illustrative maps, this book is a great resource for anyone interested in a momentous journey into Inuit culture.

Kenn Harper is a historian, writer, and linguist, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, and a former member of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. He is the author of the In Those Days series, Minik: The New York Eskimo, and Thou Shalt Do No Murder: Inuit, Injustice, and the Canadian Arctic. “Taissumani,” his column on Arctic history, appears in Nunatsiaq News.

PART ONE – BEGINNINGS

Knud Rasmussen and the Inuit

Thule

An Inauspicious Start

Inughuit on the Expedition

PART TWO – DANISH ISLAND

Akilinirmiut: Meeting New People

Tagurnaaq and Palluq

The Caribou Inuit and the Origins of Inuit Culture

Igjugaarjuk the Shaman

Umik’s New Religion

The Shaman Aua

The Wisdom of a Shaman

“To Think I Had Been So Happy”: Urulu’s Story

Mathiassen’s Brush with Death

Jacob Olsen: “No Taboo Performances are Necessary”

The Misadventures of Peter Freuchen

Mathiassen and the Thule Culture

The Departure of Freuchen and the Inughuit

PART THREE – ACROSS ARCTIC AMERICA

Urpingalik: Poet of the Nattilingmiut

Igsivalitaq the Outlaw

Summer at Malirualik

The Deep Footprints of Tired Men

Among the Inuinnait

The Hanging of Alikammiq and Tatamirana

Among the Mackenzie Inuit

Alaskan Interlude

Siberia: The Promised Land

Najagnir: “I Have Searched in the Darkness”

The Inughuit: “We Do Not Even Have a Memorial

of Them”

“His Importance Cannot be Weighed in Words Alone”

PHOTOGRAPHS

MAPS

GLOSSARY OF INUKTITUT WORDS

REFERENCES

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.5.2025
Zusatzinfo	66 Plates, black and white
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	171 x 241 mm
Gewicht	554 g
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Nord- / Mittelamerika
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte
ISBN-10	1-77227-550-6 / 1772275506
ISBN-13	978-1-77227-550-6 / 9781772275506
Zustand	Neuware