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During his 1821-23 Arctic expedition British commander William Edward Parry relied on Inuit shamans and their extensive geographical knowledge to survey the unknown and rather hostile environment of the Canadian Arctic and to seek the Northwest Passage. In one instance, the expedition’s explorers co...
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ftjarcadia:oai:arcadia.ub.lmu.de:article/15 2024-09-15T18:15:01+00:00 English Seeking Environmental Knowledge from an Inuit Shaman McCorristine, Shane 2012-06-01 application/pdf https://arcadia.ub.uni-muenchen.de/arcadia/article/view/15 https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/3679 eng eng Environment & Society Portal, Rachel Carson Center https://arcadia.ub.uni-muenchen.de/arcadia/article/view/15/10 https://arcadia.ub.uni-muenchen.de/arcadia/article/view/15 doi:10.5282/rcc/3679 Copyright (c) 2012 CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 Shane McCorristine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Arcadia; 2012 2199-3408 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2012 ftjarcadia https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/3679 2024-07-28T23:30:27Z During his 1821-23 Arctic expedition British commander William Edward Parry relied on Inuit shamans and their extensive geographical knowledge to survey the unknown and rather hostile environment of the Canadian Arctic and to seek the Northwest Passage. In one instance, the expedition’s explorers consulted a shaman who correctly told them that their ships would not be able to reach their destination due to the quantity of ice and would then return home. This forecast became true when the expedition was repelled by heavy ice and snow and had to leave the Canadian Arctic. Episodes of geographical consultations with local shamans by British officers point to a more complex relationship between imperialism, exploration, and indigenous environmental knowledge. Furthermore this relationship can be linked to broader ambivalent attitudes and cultures of curiosity in western encounters with “the supernatural” in the Arctic environment. Article in Journal/Newspaper inuit Northwest passage Arcadia - Explorations in Environmental History |
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During his 1821-23 Arctic expedition British commander William Edward Parry relied on Inuit shamans and their extensive geographical knowledge to survey the unknown and rather hostile environment of the Canadian Arctic and to seek the Northwest Passage. In one instance, the expedition’s explorers consulted a shaman who correctly told them that their ships would not be able to reach their destination due to the quantity of ice and would then return home. This forecast became true when the expedition was repelled by heavy ice and snow and had to leave the Canadian Arctic. Episodes of geographical consultations with local shamans by British officers point to a more complex relationship between imperialism, exploration, and indigenous environmental knowledge. Furthermore this relationship can be linked to broader ambivalent attitudes and cultures of curiosity in western encounters with “the supernatural” in the Arctic environment. |
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