Some Ethnolinguistic Notes on Polar Eskimo

This book serves as an insightful ethnographic introduction to the language and oral traditions of the Inugguit, a sub-group of the Inuit who live in north-west Greenland. It will be an invaluable resource for linguists who specialise in the Eskimo-Aleut group and of much interest to anthropologists working on the Arctic region.

Autorentext

Stephen Pax Leonard is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford and also a Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. Previously, he was a Research Fellow at Trinity Hall, Cambridge and a British Academy grantee. He has published two other academic books, Language, Society and Identity in Early Iceland (2012) and The Polar North: Ways of Speaking, Ways of Belonging (2014), as well as a book of poetry, Arctic Journal (2014). He is the first linguist to have lived long-term with the Inugguit of north-west Greenland.

Inhalt

Contents: Background to Polar Eskimo Language and Society - The Phonology of Polar Eskimo - Polar Eskimo as a Written Language - Towards a Polar Eskimo Orthography - Inflectional Morphology of Polar Eskimo - Derivational Morphology and Noun Inflection - The Polar Eskimo Lexicon - Stems and Affixes - Ways of Speaking - Ways of Belonging - Oral Traditions of the Inugguit - The Tradition of Drum-Dancing - The Texts.