Northwest Coast Ceremonialism: The Works of J.A. Jacobsen (1853-1947)
Johan Adrian Jacobsen (1853-1947), a Norwegian sailor, spent much of the 1880s collecting ethnographic specimens for traveling shows and museums. His most well known collections were from the Arctic and Northwest Coast of North America. In an attempt to publicize his adventures and legitimize his co...
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ftopenedition:oai:revues.org:ejas/8518 2023-05-15T15:02:28+02:00 Northwest Coast Ceremonialism: The Works of J.A. Jacobsen (1853-1947) Glass, Aaron 2010-09-07 http://ejas.revues.org/8518 en eng European Association for American Studies European journal of American studies urn:doi:10.4000/ejas.8518 http://ejas.revues.org/8518 Creative Commons License info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess info:eu-repo/semantics/article article 2010 ftopenedition https://doi.org/10.4000/ejas.8518 2017-03-11T13:40:06Z Johan Adrian Jacobsen (1853-1947), a Norwegian sailor, spent much of the 1880s collecting ethnographic specimens for traveling shows and museums. His most well known collections were from the Arctic and Northwest Coast of North America. In an attempt to publicize his adventures and legitimize his collections for scholars and curators, he wrote a few articles in German about the people he had visited, especially the so-called secret societies among the Nuxalk [Bella Coola] and Kwakwaka’wakw [Kwakiutl]. Although somewhat amateurish, these reports represent a transition in genre between travel accounts and professional ethnography, and are valuable for informing our understanding of early Northwest Coast anthropology. The translation of the works of Jacobsen from the original German was done by Richard Bland (University of Oregon). The original illustrations mentioned in the introduction could not be reproduced here. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Johan Adrian Johan Adrian Jacobsen OpenEdition Arctic European journal of American studies 5 2 |
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Johan Adrian Jacobsen (1853-1947), a Norwegian sailor, spent much of the 1880s collecting ethnographic specimens for traveling shows and museums. His most well known collections were from the Arctic and Northwest Coast of North America. In an attempt to publicize his adventures and legitimize his collections for scholars and curators, he wrote a few articles in German about the people he had visited, especially the so-called secret societies among the Nuxalk [Bella Coola] and Kwakwaka’wakw [Kwakiutl]. Although somewhat amateurish, these reports represent a transition in genre between travel accounts and professional ethnography, and are valuable for informing our understanding of early Northwest Coast anthropology. The translation of the works of Jacobsen from the original German was done by Richard Bland (University of Oregon). The original illustrations mentioned in the introduction could not be reproduced here. |
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