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.