Den rette blanding: oprindelighed og ledelse i 1800-tallets Grønland
In: University of Southern Denmark studies in history and social sciences vol. 523
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In: University of Southern Denmark studies in history and social sciences vol. 523
In: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series
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 -- 3 Invoking Tradition as a Governance Strategy: Danish Colonial Policies in the Late Nineteenth Century -- Ethnographic 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 -- 4 Achieving a Correct Blend: Tradition, Modernization, and the Formation of Identity -- Intermarriage 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 -- Neurasthenia -- Arctic Neurasthenia -- Neurasthenia Across Metropole and Colony: Class, Gender, and the Primitive -- Race, Mind, and the Complexities of Modern Life -- Notes
In: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series
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.
In: Interventions: international journal of postcolonial studies, Band 16, Heft 4, S. 551-571
ISSN: 1469-929X
In: Itinerario: international journal on the history of European expansion and global interaction, Band 33, Heft 2, S. 29-44
ISSN: 2041-2827
In 1879, the Danish Ministry of Domestic Affairs approved a proposal to construct a building in Copenhagen that was meant to function as a boarding house for Greenlanders while they were being educated in the metropole. The building, "Grønlænderhjemmet", was used as a boarding house for Greenlanders in Denmark from 1880 until 1896, when the practice of sending Greenlandic men to Denmark for educational purposes came to a halt. While in use, "Grønlænderhjemmet" functioned as an instrument for the colonial administration, and the boarding house embodied a central aspect of the colonial administration's strategy for civilising Greenlanders: to control the civilising process in order to ensure that Greenlanders did not loose their connection with their Inuit background.
In: Political power and social theory volume 33