Book Launch: Re-activating Indigenous Knowledge from Oral History

PRIVACY is delighted to invite you to a book launch celebrating the publication of Assistant Professor Asta Mønsted’s book Re-activating Indigenous Knowledge from Oral History: Landscape and Intangible Cultural Heritage in Greenland (Routledge, 2026).

Grounded in more than two thousand Greenlandic oral narratives recorded between 1735 and 1981, her book examines the knowledge embedded in the winter house, the winter settlement, and in the landscape. Through an interdisciplinary approach bridging archaeology, history, and Indigenous epistemologies, her book shows how oral histories can illuminate ways of knowing and belonging that reach beyond written archives and conventional academic frameworks.

The event will feature brief reflections and discussion with:

Professor Emeritus Bjarne Grønnow, who recently retired as a senior researcher at the National Museum of Denmark. Grønnow is known for his extensive archaeological work on Greenland’s prehistoric cultures and their interaction with Arctic environments. 

Associate Professor Kirsten Thisted, who is an invaluable teacher at Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies (ToRS), University of Copenhagen. Thisted is a leading scholar on Greenlandic–Danish relations, storytelling traditions, and postcolonial perspectives in the Arctic.

Details about the location will be announced soon.