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Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen (June 7, 1879 – December 21, 1933) was a Danish polar explorer and anthropologist. He has been called the "father of Eskimology" and was the first European to cross the Northwest Passage via dog sled. He remains well known in Greenland, Denmark and among Canadian Inuit.
Rasmussen was born in Ilulissat, Greenland, the son of a Danish missionary, the vicar Christian Rasmussen, and an Inuit- Danish mother, Lovise Rasmussen (née Fleischer). He had two siblings, including a brother, Peter Lim. Rasmussen spent his early years in Greenland among the Kalaallit (Inuit) where he learned from an early age to speak the language (Kalaallisut), hunt, drive dog sleds and live in harsh Arctic conditions. "My playmates were native Greenlanders; from the earliest boyhood I played and worked with the hunters, so even the hardships of the most strenuous sledge-trips became pleasant routine for me." He was later educated in Lynge, North Zealand, Denmark. Between 1898 and 1900 he pursued an unsuccessful career as an actor and opera singer.
Knud Rasmussen expedición Groenlandia
KNUD RASMUSSEN-Class ( Danish Navy )
The Journals of Knud Rasmussen Making-Of
Sne, sagn & slædefart - Polarforskeren Knud Rasmussen I
Knud Rasmussen
"Knud Rasmussen"
Knud Rasmussen
Journals of Knud Trailer
Inuit Shaman life story 1922 (part 1 of 2)
Knud Rasmussen og Independence Fjord
Launch Door Opening on the HDMS Knud Rasmussen (P570)
Huset, arnen & ilden - Polarforskeren Knud Rasmussen 2
Les noces de palo
Mit land - Knud Rasmussen - (Lasse og Mathilde )
Actors: Kim Bodnia (actor), Jens Jørn Spottag (actor), Pierre Lebeau (actor), Jakob Cedergren (actor), Vibeke Vogel (producer), Mikkel Maltha (miscellaneous crew), Cathrine Ambus (editor), Zacharias Kunuk (director), Zacharias Kunuk (producer), Elise Lund Larsen (producer), Natar Ungalaaq (actor), Norman Cohn (editor), Norman Cohn (director), Norman Cohn (producer), Madeline Ivalu (actress),
Plot: The last great shaman of the Inuit Avva and his beautiful and headstrong daughter Apak lives on the verge of change in 1922. As the father is trying to resist the changes encroaching upon his family and culture, a group of Danish scientists arrive to study and record his way of life.
Keywords: 1910s, amulet, arctic, breasts, canada, children, custom, dancing, drum, explorer