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Negotiating Personal Autonomy

Sophie Elixhauser
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Arctic ethnography
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Canadian Inuit
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Circumpolar North
Colonial Administration
cultural anthropology
Danish Residents
denmark
Durable Elements
East Greenland
East Greenland personhood theory
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Face To Face
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Frightening Beings
greenland
Greenlandic East Coast
Human Environmental Relations
human geography
human geography research
Ice Floe
Iivit
Indirect Communication
Informal Social Sanctions
interpersonal communication studies
inuit culture
Inuit social dynamics
inuits
Malevolent Beings
modes of communication
Non-human Beings
Non-human Persons
Non-human World
nonverbal interaction analysis
northern studies
Personal Autonomy
personhood
polar studies
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Song Duels
Tasiilaq
the arctic
the far north
the north
Turf Houses
West Greenland
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Product details

  • ISBN 9781138068551
  • Weight: 498g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 14 Mar 2018
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description

Negotiating Personal Autonomy offers a detailed ethnographic examination of personal autonomy and social life in East Greenland.

Examining verbal and non-verbal communication in interpersonal encounters, Elixhauser argues that social life in the region is characterized by relationships based upon a particular care to respect other people’s personal autonomy. Exploring this high valuation of personal autonomy, she asserts that a person in East Greenland is a highly permeable entity that is neither bounded by the body nor even necessarily human. In so doing, she also puts forward a new approach to the anthropological study of communication.

An important addition to the corpus of ethnographic literature about the people of East Greenland, Elixhauser‘s work will be of interest to scholars of the Arctic and the North, Greenland, social and cultural anthropology, and human geography. Her conclusion that, in East Greenland, the ‘inner’ self cannot be separated from the ‘public’ persona will also be of interest to scholars working on the self across the humanities and social sciences.
About Sophie Elixhauser
Sophie Elixhauser is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen, UK. Her research interests include human–environmental relations and interpersonal communication in East Greenland, and the human dimensions of climate and environmental changes in the European Alps. She currently works in the field of migration in Munich, Germany.

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