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Kenn Harper is a writer and historian who lived for fifty years in the Arctic. He is the author of Minik, the New York Eskimo (formerly Give Me My Father’s Body: The Life of Minik, the New York Eskimo); Thou Shalt Do No Murder: Inuit, Injustice, and the Canadian Arctic; and the series In Those Days: Collected Writings on Arctic History. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, and a Knight of the Order of Dannebrog (Denmark).

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Give Me Winter, Give Me Dogs

Kenn Harper


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2024-12-03

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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...

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Télécharger le livre :  In Those Days: Shamans, Spirits, and Faith in the Inuit North
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In this new collection, Kenn Harper shares tales of Inuit and Christian beliefs and how these came to coexist—and sometimes clash—in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. During this period, Anglican and Catholic missionaries came to the North to proselytize among the...

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Parution : 2021-08-19

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Télécharger le livre :  In Those Days: Tales of Arctic Whaling
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In this third volume ofIn Those Days, Harper shares stories of the rise and fall of the whaling industry in the Eastern Canadian Arctic. At the turn of the nineteenth century, whale baleen and blubber were extremely valuable commodities, and so sailors braved the...

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Parution : 2018-08-03

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Télécharger le livre :  In Those Days: Arctic Crime and Punishment
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Kenn Harper shares the tales of murderers, thieves, and fraudsters--as well as the wrongfully accused--in the early days of Northern colonization. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, settler and Inuit ideas of justice clashed, leading to some of the most unusual...

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Parution : 2015-04-17

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Télécharger le livre :  In Those Days: Inuit Lives
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Arctic historian Kenn Harper gathers the best of his columns about Inuit history, which appear weekly in Nunatsiaq News, in this exciting new series of books. Each installment of In Those Days: Collected Columns onArctic History will cover a particularly fascinating...

Editeur : Inhabit Media
Parution : 2013-12-13

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Télécharger le livre :  Suffixes of the Eskimo dialects of Cumberland Peninsula and North Baffin Island
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This volume compares and contrasts the derivational suffixes of the Cumberland Peninsula and North Baffin Island Inuit dialects and presents them in dictionary format with alphabetized variants and examples. Two appendices describe the use of selected derivational...

Editeur : Mercury-Mercure
Parution : 1979-01-01

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Télécharger le livre :  Some aspects of the grammar of the Eskimo dialects of Cumberland Peninsula and North Baffin Island
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This study analyses some of the grammar of the two dialectal areas of Central Arctic: Cumberland Peninsula and North Baffin Island. While not dealing in detail with all aspects of the Inuit grammar, it concentrates on an analysis of noun and verb structures. It also...

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Parution : 1974-01-01

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