Knud Rasmussen: 4 books

These stories were collected in various parts of Greenland, taken down from the lips of the Eskimo story tellers themselves, by Knud Rasmussen, the Danish explorer. No man is better qualified to tell the story of Greenland, or the stories of its people. Knud Rasmussen is himself partly of Eskimo origin;...

These stories were collected in various parts of Greenland, taken down from the lips of the Eskimo story tellers themselves, by Knud Rasmussen, the Danish explorer. No man is better qualified to tell the story of Greenland, or the stories of its people. Knud Rasmussen is himself partly of Eskimo origin;...

Knud Rasmussen è stato l'etnografo ed esploratore a cui dobbiamo i materiali più preziosi sugli Inuit e altre popolazioni dell'estremo Nord. Durante la V Spedizione Thule, fra il 1921 e il 1924, Rasmussen conobbe lo sciamano Aua e stabilì con lui un contatto che gli permise di raccogliere la sua...

Knud Rasmussens Mutter war eine halbe Inuit, sein Vater Däne. Die Frage nach der Herkunft der Inuit, die ihn sein Leben lang umtreiben wird, ist so auch - ein Stück weit - die Frage nach der eigenen. Ab 1912 unternimmt er erste Reisen ins Landesinnere von Grönland. Mit seiner großangelegten 5....