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our daily lives. Individual variables, the geography of their expressions, and motifs
are not merely a class of ideas and practices subject to judgments. Nor can they be
explained simply by the unanimity of community ordinance and custom. The
anthropology of a place like Greenland is as fickle and useless as a bullet to the polar
bear’s head; or the ephemeral pleasures gleaned by a cruise ship of fools (Fig. 19.3).
In a discussion of observations recorded during the Colonial period of southern
Greenland, in the mid-to-late nineteenth century, with specific details regarding
“ritual relations between the hunter and the hunted”
21
, it is suggested that Thule
21 op.cit., Cultural Encounters at Cape Farewell…pp. 164–167.
Fig. 19.3 Above Northeast Greenland National Park. (Photo © M.C.Tobias)
19 A Village in Prince Christian Sound
our daily lives. Individual variables, the geography of their expressions, and motifs
are not merely a class of ideas and practices subject to judgments. Nor can they be
explained simply by the unanimity of community ordinance and custom. The
anthropology of a place like Greenland is as fickle and useless as a bullet to the polar
bear’s head; or the ephemeral pleasures gleaned by a cruise ship of fools (Fig. 19.3).
In a discussion of observations recorded during the Colonial period of southern
Greenland, in the mid-to-late nineteenth century, with specific details regarding
“ritual relations between the hunter and the hunted”
21
, it is suggested that Thule
21 op.cit., Cultural Encounters at Cape Farewell…pp. 164–167.
Fig. 19.3 Above Northeast Greenland National Park. (Photo © M.C.Tobias)
19 A Village in Prince Christian Sound