Wandering Spirits
Loneliness and Longing in Greenland
$302.09
- Hardcover
224 pages
- Release Date
28 March 2019
Summary
It is common to think of the Arctic as remote, perched at the farthest reaches of the world—a simple and harmonious, isolated utopia. But the reality, as Janne Flora shows us, is anything but. In Wandering Spirits, Flora reveals how deeply connected the Arctic is to the rest of the world and how it has been affected by the social, political, economic, and environmental shifts that ushered in the modern age.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780226610429 |
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| ISBN-10: | 022661042X |
| Author: | Janne Flora |
| Publisher: | The University of Chicago Press |
| Imprint: | University of Chicago Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 28 March 2019 |
| Weight: | 392g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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Critics Review
“A masterful integration of sensitive fieldwork and analytical insight on an extraordinary landscape. Through a tender narrative of people’s lives, Flora faithfully transmits a whole world of understanding and feeling. This book will challenge any reader’s assumptions about the possible meanings of life and death, belonging and–especially–isolation.”–Piers Vitebsky, author of Living without the Dead “With this rich ethnographic work, Flora clearly masters the art of finding a place for herself within a tightly knit social space and of hearing the unsaid, which allows for new and moving insights into feelings of loneliness and of relatedness–to people as well as landscapes.”–Kirsten Hastrup, University of Copenhagen
About The Author
Janne Flora
Janne Flora is a postdoctoral scholar at Aarhus University and holds a PhD in anthropology from the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge.
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