The Oral Traditions of the Inugguit of North-West Greenland
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| Description: | Lecture by Dr Stephen Pax Leonard for the World Oral Literature Project Occasional Lecture Series |
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| Created: | 2012-02-10 14:49 | ||
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| Collection: | World Oral Literature Project Lectures | ||
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge | ||
| Copyright: | World Oral Literature Project | ||
| Language: | eng (English) | ||
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| Keywords: | oral history; oral literature; drum dance; inugguit; Greenland; | ||
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| Explicit content: | No | ||
| Abstract: | Dr Stephen Pax Leonard is a research fellow at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and research associate at the Scott Polar Research Institute. He has carried out both linguistic and ethnographic fieldwork in Iceland and the Faroe Islands and has become particularly interested in aspects of dialect formation, the role of identity in small language communities as well as language revitalisation and more generally endangered languages and cultures in the Arctic and elsewhere. He has recently started a new project, documenting and researching the endangered oral traditions, verbal behaviour and communicative practices of the Inughuit people in north-west Greenland. |
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