1st Edition
Early Ethnography in the American Arctic Tristes Arctiques
By Kirsten Hastrup
Copyright 2024
274 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
274 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
274 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Prologue: The Great Ethnographic Period in the American Arctic
1 The New World: Anthropologists in the Wilderness
2 Late Arrivals: Strangers in the North
3 Moving Frontiers: Life in the Indeterminate Zone
4 Animal Companions: The Precariousness of the Hunt
5 Vital Materials: The Agency of Things
6 Human Terrains: A Mutable Landscape
7 Close Quarters: Intimacy and Travelling Theory
8 Emerging Subjects: Bodies in the Cold
9 Elusive Arctic: Ancient Steps and Future Traces
Biography
Kirsten Hastrup is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
