In these latitudes: American and Inuit stories of survival, 1850-1922
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a stream of popular narratives celebrated the struggles of European and American explorers who pushed out to the edges of their known worlds. Many of these adventurers travelled through Inuit homelands in the North American Arctic, recording their sur...
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ftrutgersuniv:oai:example.org:rutgers-lib:36205 2023-05-15T14:50:25+02:00 In these latitudes: American and Inuit stories of survival, 1850-1922 Routledge, Karen, 1976- Routledge, Karen, 1976- (author) Lears, T. J. Jackson (chair) Schrepfer, Susan (co-chair) Fabian, Ann (internal member) Clemens, Paul (internal member) Trott, Christopher G. (outside member) Rutgers University Graduate School - New Brunswick 2011 xi, 353 p. : ill., maps electronic resource application/pdf http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.1/rucore10001600001.ETD.000063586 eng eng Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations Graduate School - New Brunswick Electronic Theses and Dissertations rucore19991600001 http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.1/rucore10001600001.ETD.000063586 History Arctic regions—Discovery and exploration—American Inuit—Canada Text theses 2011 ftrutgersuniv 2022-05-30T13:44:03Z In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a stream of popular narratives celebrated the struggles of European and American explorers who pushed out to the edges of their known worlds. Many of these adventurers travelled through Inuit homelands in the North American Arctic, recording their surroundings as inherently forbidding and desolate. These explorers are part of an arctic survival mythology that extends much further and deeper. In this environmental and cultural history, I consider lesser-known survival narratives drawn from oral histories and archival sources, namely stories of American whalers in Inuit territory, Inuit families in the United States, American and Inuit polar expedition members, and Inuit who remained in their homeland as it changed around them. I compare the strategies these individuals employed to survive physically, psychologically, and culturally when they faced hardships such as starvation, malnutrition, and disease. My four chapters are structured around different ways of marking ecological and social time, and they are centred on the rich maritime region of Cumberland Sound on Baffin Island, in what is now Nunavut, Canada. I argue that Inuit and Americans often saw each other’s latitudes as inhospitable, and that divergent cosmologies shaped their perceptions of unfamiliar sites. Together, these unconventional arctic narratives demonstrate that the definition of a harsh environment is relative, and they offer alternative ways of thinking about individual and cultural survival. Ph. D. Includes bibliographical references by Karen Routledge Thesis Arctic Baffin Island Baffin Cumberland Sound inuit Nunavut RUcore - Rutgers University Community Repository Arctic Baffin Island Canada Cumberland Sound ENVELOPE(-66.014,-66.014,65.334,65.334) Nunavut |
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In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a stream of popular narratives celebrated the struggles of European and American explorers who pushed out to the edges of their known worlds. Many of these adventurers travelled through Inuit homelands in the North American Arctic, recording their surroundings as inherently forbidding and desolate. These explorers are part of an arctic survival mythology that extends much further and deeper. In this environmental and cultural history, I consider lesser-known survival narratives drawn from oral histories and archival sources, namely stories of American whalers in Inuit territory, Inuit families in the United States, American and Inuit polar expedition members, and Inuit who remained in their homeland as it changed around them. I compare the strategies these individuals employed to survive physically, psychologically, and culturally when they faced hardships such as starvation, malnutrition, and disease. My four chapters are structured around different ways of marking ecological and social time, and they are centred on the rich maritime region of Cumberland Sound on Baffin Island, in what is now Nunavut, Canada. I argue that Inuit and Americans often saw each other’s latitudes as inhospitable, and that divergent cosmologies shaped their perceptions of unfamiliar sites. Together, these unconventional arctic narratives demonstrate that the definition of a harsh environment is relative, and they offer alternative ways of thinking about individual and cultural survival. Ph. D. Includes bibliographical references by Karen Routledge |
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Routledge, Karen, 1976- (author) Lears, T. J. Jackson (chair) Schrepfer, Susan (co-chair) Fabian, Ann (internal member) Clemens, Paul (internal member) Trott, Christopher G. (outside member) Rutgers University Graduate School - New Brunswick |
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