Nørrested, Carl. ‘Blandt Eskimoer, Eventyrer Og Etnografer – Filmdokumentarisme Om Grønland’. Kosmorama, no. 232, 2003, pp. 68–98,
Tag: greenland
Rud, Søren. Colonialism in Greenland: Tradition, Governance and Legacy. (2017)
Rud, Søren. Colonialism in Greenland: Tradition, Governance and Legacy. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
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.
Hastrup, Kirsten. Menneskesyn: kultur, race og Knud Rasmussen. (2000) [PDF]
Hastrup, Kirsten. Menneskesyn: kultur, race og Knud Rasmussen. Aarhus Universitet, 2000,
I antropologien har forholdet mellem natur og kultur været et centralt problem siden Arildstid; Arilds tid er i denne sammenhæng nærmest sammenfaldende med Oplysningstiden og det store encyklopædiske projekt, som også omfattede levevis og vaner over den hele klode. Spørgsmålet har til enhver tid været, hvad der betingede de store variationer i menneskers liv; om de kunne tilskrives lokale naturforhold, racemæssige eller arvebiologiske forhold, eller om de var resultater af tilfældig kreativ tænkning hos mennesker, der i øvrigt var naturligt ens. I det følgende skal jeg illustrere kompleksiteten i dette store spørgsmål med udgangspunkt i Knud Rasmussens syn på de mennesker, han mødte i de polare egne, og som dengang kaldtes eskimoer.
PDF: http://www.hum.au.dk/ckulturf/pages/publications/kh/mkr.pdf. http://www.hum.au.dk/ckulturf/pages/publications/kh/mkr.pdf.
Bjørnsson, Iben. ‘”Vi har ikke behov for forsoning …” – Det danske selvbillede i relation til Grønland 1953-2015’. (2016) [PDF]
Bjørnsson, Iben. ‘”Vi har ikke behov for forsoning …” – Det danske selvbillede i relation til Grønland 1953-2015’. Temp – tidsskrift for historie, vol. 7, no. 13, 13, 2016, pp. 117–151. tidsskrift.dk, .
In 1953 Greenland, with the new Danish constitution, became an assimilated part of the Danish kingdom. With that, colonial times were over, and Greenland and Denmark had to adjust to each other in a new relation – but realities showed that perhaps Greenland were not always as equal. In Denmark, there has been different views and narratives on the Danish-Greenlandic relation, not least Denmark’s role: good, bad, and everything in between.This article investigates the official Danish view of itself in the colonial andpost-colonial relation. Through statements from ministers for Greenland from1953 through to the present, common themes as well as diversions are identified.
PDF: https://tidsskrift.dk/temp/article/view/24985. https://tidsskrift.dk/temp/article/view/24985
Arnfred, Signe, and Kirsten Bransholm Pedersen. ‘From Female Shamans to Danish Housewives: Colonial Constructions of Gender in Greenland, 1721 to ca. 1970’ (2015)
Arnfred, Signe, and Kirsten Bransholm Pedersen. ‘From Female Shamans to Danish Housewives: Colonial Constructions of Gender in Greenland, 1721 to ca. 1970’. NORA – Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, vol. 23, no. 4, Routledge, Oct. 2015, pp. 282–302.
Taking its inspiration from post-colonial feminist scholarship, particularly the writings of Greenland scholar Karla Jessen Williamson, this paper sets out to trace the ways in which conceptions of gender in Greenland changed as a consequence of the eighteenth-century colonial encounter with Christian missionaries and a Danish trade monopoly. According to Jessen Williamson, pre-colonial Greenlandic conceptions of gender were characterized by a certain social indifference to gender, and the absence of a given hierarchy of male dominance/female subordination—a situation of genderlessness. During the process of colonization, European morals of sexuality and hierarchies of gender were introduced, along with hierarchies of race. The paper focuses on two historical periods, the 1700s and the 1900s. We see the first period as characterized by intricate intersections of gender, race, and class, as well as transformations of existing norms of gender and sexuality. As for the second period, the paper investigates how the notion of genderlessness might provide a background for understanding the different implications of the process of modernization for different groups of women in Greenland. Our aim is to contribute to a continued discussion of different understandings of gender in Greenland and elsewhere.