Opera in the Arctic: Knud Rasmussen, Inside and Outside Modernity

• Published in: IdeAs
• Main Author: Smaro Kamboureli
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; French
• Published: Institut des Amériques 2018
• Subjects: Inuit; The Journals of Knud Rasmussen; Knud Rasmussen; modernity; colonialism; Latin America. Spanish America; F1201-3799; Social sciences (General); H1-99; Arctic; Igloolik; Rasmussen; inuit
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.4000/ideas.2553; https://doaj.org/article/f4bbcc26092c4304a309b6cad47cec0d

This article examines how modernity is inscribed in Inuit culture, specifically in Igloolik in 1922, and how it is represented within different temporalities: Knud Rasmussen’s account of his time among the Iglulingmiurt, Across Arctic America (1927), and Zacharias Kunuk and Norman Cohn’s Inuit film,...