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The Veins of the Heart to the Pinnacle of the Mind. Taqqat Uummammut Aqqutaannut Takorluukkat Apuuffiannut.
Lynge, Aqqaluk. Illus: Hoegh, Aka
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Hardback. Moving poetic expressions of the very close interrelationships between culture and politics in modern Greenland by a gifted Greenlandic poet Illustrator(s): Hoegh, Aka. Translator(s): Stenbaek, Marianne A.; Norris, Ken. Num Pages: 136 pages, 12 illus. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 159 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
This volume includes the Greenlandic originals and English translations of selections from Aqqaluk Lynge's poetic output over the course of the last thirty-five years. It launches the International Polar Institute Press's bilingual Greenlandic Literature in Translation series, the first cultural project arising from the US-Greenland Joint Declaration signed in 1993. This series examines the decline of ritual and physical traditions as Greenlanders adapt to modern technology while struggling to retain their cultural heritage in the midst of challenges posed by modern commerce and climate change. It reproduces for the first time in English the voices of a distinct and proud ... Read more
This volume includes the Greenlandic originals and English translations of selections from Aqqaluk Lynge's poetic output over the course of the last thirty-five years. It launches the International Polar Institute Press's bilingual Greenlandic Literature in Translation series, the first cultural project arising from the US-Greenland Joint Declaration signed in 1993. This series examines the decline of ritual and physical traditions as Greenlanders adapt to modern technology while struggling to retain their cultural heritage in the midst of challenges posed by modern commerce and climate change. It reproduces for the first time in English the voices of a distinct and proud ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Independent Publisher United States
Number of pages
136
Condition
New
Number of Pages
136
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781605857930
SKU
V9781605857930
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99-2
About Lynge, Aqqaluk. Illus: Hoegh, Aka
AQQALUK LYNGE is one of the most respected, prominent, and influential Inuit - indeed indigenous - leaders in the world today. He writes eloquently in Danish, Greenlandic, and English.
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