Early ethnography in the American Arctic: tristes Arctiques

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Abstract

"This book offers a portrait of early ethnographic work in the American Arctic, with a focus on understanding the mutual constitution of the Inuit and their early ethnographers. It draws mainly on a rich repository of written testimonies from the early twentieth century, the 'great ethnographic period' when new scholarly interest in the region took off. Supplementing the movements and observations of whalers, traders, and missionaries, the early chroniclers offered new knowledge of Inuit life. Although their descriptions of the Inuit bear the marks of their time, the texts have left a deep mark on later developments and contributed to a long-lasting view of human life in the Arctic. The chapters show the infiltration of lives and landscapes, of thoughts and materials, of Inuit and ethnographers. The book will be relevant to anthropologists as well as historians, geographers, and others with an interest the Arctic region and Indigenous studies"--

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Early Ethnography in the American Arctic: Tristes Arctiques

Hastrup, Kirsten

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue: The Great Ethnographic Period in the American Arctic -- 1 The New World: Anthropologists in the Wilderness -- Another Continent -- Illegible Landscapes -- Being Out of Date -- Contact at High Latitudes -- Looking Back -- References -- 2 Late Arrivals: Strangers in the North -- In Northern Mists -- Chroniclers of American Natives -- Emerging Representations -- Reaching the Impossible -- Dreams and Definitions -- References -- 3 Moving Frontiers: Life in the Indeterminate Zone -- The Frontier as Edge -- Geography at Sea -- Trading Companies -- The Price of Global Connection -- Refashioning the Margins -- References -- 4 Animal Companions: The Precariousness of the Hunt -- The Eskimo Dog -- The Muskox Way -- Caribou Trails -- Companions of the Sea -- Arctic Precarity -- References -- 5 Vital Materials: The Agency of Things -- Snow and Ice -- Wood and Skin -- Stone and Bone -- Iron and Copper -- How Things Matter -- References -- 6 Human Terrains: A Mutable Landscape -- Landscape Literacy -- Emerging Maps -- Moods of Terrain -- Territorial Claims -- Times of Wonder -- References -- 7 Close Quarters: Intimacy and Travelling Theory -- Meeting Others Halfway -- Closeness By Implication -- Freedom and Friendship -- Ethnographic Ambiguity -- Shared Lives -- References -- 8 Emergent Subjects: Bodies in the Cold -- Classifying Others -- Collecting Tales -- Inuit Characters -- Vital Bodies -- Heroes of the North -- References -- 9 Elusive Arctic: Ancient Steps and Future Traces -- Writing the Arctic -- Ways of Seeing -- Mapping People -- The New Arctic -- Deep Time -- References -- Index.