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Thule Culture Communal Houses in Labrador [PDF]

open access: yes, 1976
From the study of excavations at Saglek Bay, construction of large rectangular sod-stone and whalebone communal houses by the Thule culture Eskimos in northern Labrador apparently began about the latter half of the seventeenth century.
Schledermann, Peter
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Objective Styles in Northern Field Science [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Social studies of science have often treated natural field sites as extensions of the laboratory. But this overlooks the unique specificities of field sites.
Kochan, Jeff
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Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling in Greenland: The Case of Qeqertarsuaq Municipality in West Greenland [PDF]

open access: yes, 1993
Policy debates in the International Whaling Commission (IWC) about aboriginal subsistence whaling focus on the changing significance of whaling in the mixed economies of contemporary Inuit communities.
Caulfield, Richard A.
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The Beacon, March 22, 2010 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Vol.
Florida International University
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Brief communication:getting Greenland’s glaciers right – a new data set of all official Greenlandic glacier names [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Place names in Greenland can be difficult to get right, as they are a mix of Greenlandic, Danish, and other foreign languages. In addition, orthographies have changed over time.
Bjørk, Anders Anker   +2 more
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Neo-Eskimo Occupations of the Northern Labrador Coast [PDF]

open access: yes, 1980
Archaeological and historical information are brought together in an examination of the changing economic and social interaction spheres of the Labrador Neo-Eskimo from the Thule period through the 19th century.
Kaplan, Susan A.
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The professional ecstatic in his social and ritual position [PDF]

open access: yes, 1982
The professional ecstatic is a religious specialist, who has become recognized as a person able to carry out an ecstatic ritual, corresponding with the local cultural expectations in force.
Sonne, Birgitte
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Inuit & Nunavut: Renewing the New World [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
Nunavut has existed simultaneously in four very different contexts, i.e., as: 1. A land of isolated villages with local problems 2. An exotic and unique region 3. An indigenous member of Canada's federation 4.
Jull, Peter
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Late-18th- and Early-19th-Century Inuit and Europeans in Southern Labrador [PDF]

open access: yes, 1993
The Inuit presence, except at Red Bay, is not archaeologically visible until the end of the 18th century, despite the written accounts that document their presence in the Strait of Belle Isle from as early as the 16th century.
Auger, Réginald
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