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Mon passé eskimo
Mon passé eskimo | Georg Quppersimaan, Otto Sandgreen, Catherine Enel
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Le récit autobiographique de Georg Quppersimaan, né en 1889 au Groenland de l'Est, plonge le lecteur au coeur même de la philosophie eskimo originelle. C'est l'histoire d'un enfant unique qui perd son père très jeune et qui construit autour de lui les "fortifications" qui lui permettront de survivre dans une société impitoyable à l'égard des orphelins. On y suit non seulement son apprentissage du métier de chasseur de phoques, mais aussi le commencement d'une initiation au monde étrange des chamanes, médiateurs entre les mortels et les esprits. On l'y voit aussi confronté à plusieurs reprises au tupilak, cet être composite créé par les sorciers malfaisants. Ce livre est l'histoire authentique et spontanée faite par Georg Quppersimaan au révérend Otto Sandgreen, au tout début des années 1960, de son enfance et de son adolescence extrêmement difficiles, où tout fut dominé par la détermination de venger le meurtre de son père.
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Dilara
Mon passé eskimo | Georg Quppersimaan, Otto Sandgreen, Catherine Enel
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Researching food has been rather frustrating so far: I found info about ingredients, cheffy Greenland-inspired recipes, and world food bloggers' identikit recipes for suaasat, a traditional soup originally made with seal meat, which they typically sub with another read meat. In the meantime, I made myself some tea with juniper berries, which I know are used in #Greenland, but no info on how they are used there.
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Dilara I'll probably go with suaasat made with beef or lamb, just like all those non-Greenlandic food writers, unless something else - with actionable information and available ingredients - crops up. 😔 1w
Texreader Yes. This country is going to be difficult for food options!! 1w
Cortg I‘m thinking boiled cod with a mustard sauce I saw online and a Greenlandic bread. Definitely a tough one. 1w
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I saw a “recipe“ for “fish on a stone“: freshly-caught fish boiled in seawater then slapped on a stone to be sliced and shared. I'd definitely do that if I lived close to a (clean) sea, which I don't...
Is that Greenlandic bread Kalaallit Kaagiat? Sweet raisin and cardamom bread? I am actually looking forward to trying my hand at it 😃
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Cortg @Dilara Yep, that‘s the bread I‘m looking at. This is the cod recipe I‘m thinking about with warm potato salad https://travelbystove.blogspot.com/2013/10/recipes-from-greenland.html?m=1 Looks interesting and fortunately my peeps are pretty adventurous with food 😆 7d
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Dilara
Mon passé eskimo | Georg Quppersimaan, Otto Sandgreen, Catherine Enel
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Found at the library: the life story of an East Greenlander shaman at the end of the 19th century & 1st half of the 20th - hence the use of a now-deprecated word - as told to a local Danish cleric in the 60s.
It starts with violence & descriptions of v. harsh conditions, but things get better for Georg later in life, thankfully.
#Greenland #FoodandLit
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Pic Helheim Fjord eastern Greenland by NASA/Jim Yungel, PD, Wikimedia C

Catsandbooks 👏🏼🇬🇱 1w
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