Bibliography — As the scope of the dictionary entries and extent of this bibliography make clear, there is a huge range of literature on shamans, from introductory works, general discussions on such topics as definition, and culture specific ethnographic… … Historical dictionary of shamanism
Grønland — Kalaallit Nunaat (grönl.) Grønland (dän.) Grönland … Deutsch Wikipedia
Kalaallit Nunaat — (grönl.) Grønland (dän.) Grönland … Deutsch Wikipedia
Grönland — Kalaallit Nunaat (grönl.) Grønland (dän.) Grönland … Deutsch Wikipedia
Angakkoq — “Visionary and dreamer”; the Greenlandic shaman (pl. angakkut; also ilisiitsoq sing., ilisiitsut pl.). Missionary Hans Egede in 1721 offered the first detailed account of shamanism on the west coast of Greenland, describing how the shaman is… … Historical dictionary of shamanism
Greenland — The world’s largest island, situated in the Arctic, Greenland has indigenous Inuit and immigrant Danish inhabitants. The Inuit angakkoq (shaman), discussed by such scholars as Knud Rasmussen and Merete Demant Jakobsen, mediates between human… … Historical dictionary of shamanism
Inuit — Indigenous communities of the Arctic coasts of Siberia, Alaska, Canada, and Greenland (formerly known as Eskimos), well known for their hunter fisher lifestyle and documented initially by such ethnographers as Martin Frobisher, G. F. Lyon,… … Historical dictionary of shamanism
Rasmussen, Knud — (1879–1933) Early 20th century ethnographer of the Greenlandic angakkut who was born in Greenland, the son of a Danish missionary and a local Inuit woman. In 1910 Rasmussen and his colleagues established the “Arctic Station of Thule,” from… … Historical dictionary of shamanism
