Inuit and Whalers on Baffin Island Through German Eyes

Name: Inuit and Whalers on Baffin Island Through German Eyes
Brand: Baraka Books
SKU: 9781926824451
Price: 16.99 EUR
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ISBN: 978-1-926-82445-1

Wilhelm Weike's Arctic Journal and Letters (1883-84)

de Ludwig Müller-Wille (auteur), Bernd Gieseking (auteur), William Barr (traduction)

Maison d'édition : Baraka Books

février 2012

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Told from an ordinary man’s perspective, these are the journal and letters of Wilhelm Weike as he accompanied Franz Boas—the father of modern anthropology—on his journey to the arctic from 1883 to 1884. This extraordinary document of early arctic history provides a plain, direct view of the Inuit and the whalers in their arctic environment at the end of the 19th century. With invaluable contextual and complementary information, this book contributes key insights during the recent wave of scientific assessment of Franz Boas’s legacy in all social sciences.

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Résumé

Wilhelm Weike, a 23-year old handyman from Minden/Germany, accidentally found himself spending the year of 1883-84 among Inuit and wintering with whalers on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic. The fledgling scientist Franz Boas (1858-1942), later the eminent cultural anthropologist, hired Weike to attend to and assist him in his geographical and ethnological research following the first Polar Year of 1882-83. Weike’s journal is a fascinating text and an exceptional piece of working-class literature.Ludger Müller-Wille and Bernd Gieseking have edited and annotated Weike’s journal extensively. They present his biography and highlight his observations and his contributions to Boas’s scientific work.

Auteur

Ludwig Müller-Wille (auteur)

Ludger Müller-Wille is a retired professor of Geography/Northern Studies at McGill University and has studied ethnicity and human-environmental relations in the arctic and subarctic among Sámi and Finns (Sápmi/Finland), Inuit, Dene and Naskapi (Canada).Since the mid 60s, he has conducted research in cultural anthropology, geography and toponymy in subarctic Fenno-Scandia (Sápmi, Finland and Norway) with Sámi and Finns and in subarctic and arctic Canada (Nunavut, Nunavik, Northern Saskatchewan and Québec) with Inuit, Dene, Naskapi and Cree, supported by German, Finnish,Canadian and European Union funding institutions. Other projects concerned the history of arctic anthropology and geography focussing on Franz Boas and his contributions
Bernd Gieseking (auteur)

Bernd Gieseking is a cabaret artist and author of children's radio plays and theatre plays. He has taught courses in mdeia studies. He has hosted theatre, radio and TV shows, mainly solo. Since 1994, he has had a regular show, The Annual Satirical Review, and others.
William Barr (Traduit par)

William Barr is a research fellow at the Arctic Institute of North America. A glacial geomorphologist by training, his major research focus is the history of exploration in the Arctic, a subject on which he has published extensively. In May 2006, he received a lifetime achievement award from the Canadian Historical Association for his contributions to the historiography of the Canadian North.