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Saqqaq: An Inuit Hunting Community in the Modern World. (Reviews).-

Publication: Arctic
Publication Date: 01-MAR-02 		Format: Online - approximately 1014 words
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Full Article Title: Saqqaq: An Inuit Hunting Community in the Modern World. (Reviews).-(book review)

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SAQQAQ: AN INUIT HUNTING COMMUNITY IN THE MODERN WORLD. By JENS DAHL. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. ISBN 0-8020-8237-8. 277 p., maps, bib., index. Softbound. Cdn$24.95; [pounds sterling]16.00 in Europe.

This long-awaited book by Jens Dahl is a comprehensive and thorough description of one specific hunting community in Greenland, as observed during several anthropological field trips over a period of 16 years. Dahl sets out to describe the hunting mode of production in Saqqaq, in the Disko Bay area of West Greenland, and argues that we must dismantle the dichotomy between "traditional" and "modern" in order to understand the contemporary situation of Greenlandic villages (nunaqarfiit).

Small villages in Greenland, whose inhabitants have livelihoods based on hunting and fishing, have long been seen by various Greenlandic politicians, intellectuals, writers, and poets, as well as by anthropologists, as places where "real" and "true" Greenlandic culture can still be found. This image has...

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