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1 online resource (172 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series |
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Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series
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| Contents |
Colonialism in Greenland; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1 Introduction; The Relationship Between Denmark and Greenland; Danish Exceptionalism; Notes; 2 Ethnography, Time, and the Idealization of Tradition; Beyond Voice: Eskimo-Orientalism and the Colonial Project; Early Depictions of Inuit and Greenlanders: Civilized and Corrupted; The Anthropological Time-Portals; Ethnographic Discourse; The Women's Boat Expedition and the True Greenlanders; Time, Space, and Cultural Ideals; Notes |
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3 Invoking Tradition as a Governance Strategy: Danish Colonial Policies in the Late Nineteenth CenturyEthnographic Discourse and the Rebirth of Tradition; Nineteenth-Century Greenland; Bringing Back Tradition: Hunters, Shepherds, and the Establishment of Local Boards; Combining Traditions with a New Social Landscape; Lists and Designations to Further Colonial Aims; Other Means to Preserve Traditional Practices; Colonial Governmentality and Tradition; The Specificity of the Colonial Project in Greenland; Notes |
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4 Achieving a Correct Blend: Tradition, Modernization, and the Formation of IdentityIntermarriage and Mixed Children as Tools and Targets of Colonial Governance; Modernization and Tradition among the Greenlandic Elite; Two Lives, Lived Differently; Achieving a Correct Blend; Notes; 5 Diagnosing Vulnerability; Colonial Medicine; Medicine and Medical Experts in Greenland; Diagnosing the Greenlanders' Vulnerability; Mental Disturbances in Greenland During the Colonial Era; Nangiarneq: Dizziness and Anxiety in a Kayak; First Theories: The Greenlanders' Consumption of Coffee and Tobacco |
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NeurastheniaArctic Neurasthenia; Neurasthenia Across Metropole and Colony: Class, Gender, and the Primitive; Race, Mind, and the Complexities of Modern Life; Notes; 6 Shame and Crime: The Effects and Afterlife of Tradition; Law and Order in Greenland: A Culture-based Penal System?; Ethnography and Punishment in Greenland; Peter Gundel: Intellectual and Criminal; Gundel Before the Mixed Courts of Justice; Gundel's Complaint; A Childish Disposition-First Draft of a Penal Code; Stalled Implementation of the Penal Code; New Charges Against Gundel; Too Heavy an Armor -- Second Draft for a Penal Code |
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"You Ought to Bear Your Shame in Silence"The Juridical Expedition to Greenland; Shame and Crime: The Effects and Afterlife of Tradition; Notes; 7 Toward a Postcolonial Greenland: Culture, Identity, and Colonial Legacy; From Sealing to Fishing: The Push for Equal Opportunities; Visions of a Modern Greenland: The Second Half of the Twentieth Century; The Reappearance of Ethnographic Discourse; Colonialism as the Evil Twin of Modernity?; Shame, Pride, and the Colonial Past; Politics, Language, and Reconciliation; The Reconciliation Commission |
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Industrial Development and the Understanding of Identity |
| Summary |
This book explores how the Danish authorities governed the colonized population in Greenland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Two competing narratives of colonialism dominate in Greenland as well as Denmark. One narrative portrays the Danish colonial project as ruthless and brutal extraction of a vulnerable indigenousness people; the other narrative emphasizes almost exclusively the benevolent aspects of Danish rule in Greenland. Rather than siding with one of these narratives, this book investigates actual practices of colonial governance in Greenland with an outlook to the extensive international scholarship on colonialism and post-colonialism. The chapters address the intimate connections between the establishment of an ethnographic discourse and the colonial techniques of governance in Greenland. Thereby the book provides important nuances to the understanding of the historical relationship between Denmark and Greenland and links this historical trajectory to the present negotiations of Greenlandic identity |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Colonialism & imperialism.
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Social & cultural history.
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Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography.
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European history.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
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HISTORY -- Polar Regions.
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Politics and government.
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Greenland -- History
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Greenland -- Politics and government
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Greenland.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783319461588 |
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3319461583 |
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