Greenland

Wandering Spirits
by Janne Flora

Having lived in Greenland as a teenager, anthropologise Janne Flora returns to Kalaauit Nunaat to research aspects of kinship, loneliness and suicide in one of the least densely populated areas on earth. This beautifully written and compassionate account spans ten years of studying the way of life in a society moulded by the weather, in this place of extreme closeness and extreme solitude, as she gradually unravels the myths and after-effects of 1950s ‘colonisation’.

University of Chicago Press, 2019
ISBN 9780226610566