This nicely illustrated and informative publication is a cultural history of the southernmost part of Greenland with a particular emphasis on the East Greenlandic immigrants settling at or in the vicinity of the Moravian mission stations in that area in the nineteenth century. The book has been translated into English and original quotes are made available in the endnotes for those proficient in Danish, German, or Greenlandic. Furthermore, it contains a useful appendix of the censuses of Greenland as well as an extensive index.
After the brief introduction, the volume falls into three distinct parts organized according to methodological approaches: a macro-historical part is followed by a section dedicated to an analysis of societal organisation in East Greenland. The last two chapters take a micro-historical look at South Greenlandic culture. The three authors come from different academic disciplines. This allows a range of approaches from archaeology to anthropology and history....
