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Friday 06 January 2012, 16:00-17:00
Oral Traditions of the Inugguit of North-West Greenland
- đ¤ Speaker: Dr Stephen Pax Leonard
- đ Date & Time: Friday 06 January 2012, 16:00 - 17:00
- đ Venue: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site
Abstract
Dr Stephen Pax Leonard is a research fellow at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and research associate at the Scott Polar Research Institute. He has carried out both linguistic and ethnographic fieldwork in Iceland and the Faroe Islands and has become particularly interested in aspects of dialect formation, the role of identity in small language communities as well as language revitalisation and more generally endangered languages and cultures in the Arctic and elsewhere. He has recently started a new project, documenting and researching the endangered oral traditions, verbal behaviour and communicative practices of the Inughuit people in north-west Greenland.
Series This talk is part of the World Oral Literature Project series.
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