Article explores the prevalence of content of the Indigenous-Australian people’s beliefs about little people. Findings show that many people believe in and encounter little people in contemporary contexts and that perceptions of their presence range from potentially frightening to seeing them as protectors of the land.
Myth and Memory: Rethinking Stories of Indigenous-European Contact
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John Lutz
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Introduction in book: Myth and Memory: Rethinking Stories of Indigenous-European Contact edited by John Sutton Lutz. Contact stories provide differing explanations for settlers and Indigenous people.
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 31, no. 1-2, Tchoukotka / Chukotka, 2007, pp. 393-394
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Review of The Southernmost People of Greenland: Dialects and Memories = Qavaat – Oqalunneri Eqqaamassaallu by Maliâraq Vebæk ; edited by Birgitte Sonne and with a contribution on phonology by Birte H. Christensen.
Review in French.