A01=Janne Flora
anthropology
arctic
Author_Janne Flora
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contemporary times
death
desire
dying
economics
environment
environmental changes
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familial relationships
financial decisions
Greenland
hunting
indigenous peoples
interpersonal
inughuit
Inuit
inupiak
inuvialiut
kinship
loneliness
longing
loss of life
modernity
native population
political debates
politics
psychology
social influences
suicide
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- ISBN 9780226610566
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 25 Mar 2019
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
In this innovative study, Flora focuses on Inuit communities in Greenland and addresses a central puzzle: their alarmingly high suicide rate. She explores the deep connections between loneliness and modernity in the Arctic, tracing the history of Greenland and analyzing the social dynamics that shaped it. Flora's thorough, sensitive engagement with the families that make up these communities uncovers the complex interplay between loneliness and a host of economic and environmental practices, including the widespread local tradition of hunting. Wandering Spirits offers a vivid portrait of a largely overlooked world, in all its fragility and nuance, while engaging with core anthropological concerns of kinship and the structure of social relations.
Janne Flora is a postdoctoral scholar at Aarhus University and holds a PhD in anthropology from the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge.
