'A People of Tractable Conversation': A Reappraisal of Davis's Contribution to Arctic Scholarship (1585-1587)
International audience Compared to other Elizabethan mariners, John Davis has received surprisingly little attention in recent years. This paper aims at suggesting that Davis should be brought back to the center of the narrative, if only to restore some historical balance with Frobisher. We argue th...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:10670/1.35f694 2023-05-15T14:56:11+02:00 'A People of Tractable Conversation': A Reappraisal of Davis's Contribution to Arctic Scholarship (1585-1587) La contribution de John Davis à la recherche arctique (1585-1587) : une réévaluation MAHIEU, Marc-Antoine Popelard, Mickaël Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (Inalco) Langues et civilisations à tradition orale (LACITO) Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3-Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (Inalco)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN) Normandie Université (NU) Équipe de recherche interdisciplinaire sur la Grande-Bretagne, l'Irlande et l'Amérique du Nord (ERIBIA) Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU) Frédéric Regard 2013-01-01 https://hal-inalco.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01384539/file/Mahieu%20M.-A.%20%26%20Popelard%20M.%20-%20%27A%20People%20of%20Tractable%20Conversation%27.pdf https://hal-inalco.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01384539 en eng HAL CCSD Pickering & Chatto (Routledge) hal-01384539 10670/1.35f694 https://hal-inalco.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01384539/file/Mahieu%20M.-A.%20%26%20Popelard%20M.%20-%20%27A%20People%20of%20Tractable%20Conversation%27.pdf https://hal-inalco.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01384539 lic_creative-commons other Hyper Article en Ligne - Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société The Quest for the Northwest Passage: Knowledge, Nation and Empire, 1576-1806 Frédéric Regard. The Quest for the Northwest Passage: Knowledge, Nation and Empire, 1576-1806, Pickering & Chatto (Routledge), pp.71-87, 2013, Empires in Perspective John Davis (English explorer) + Northwest Passage + Arctic pre-ethnography + Davis's wordlist + historical description of the Inuit language John Davis (explorateur anglais) + Passage du Nord-Ouest + pré-ethnographie arctique + liste de mots de Davis + description historique de la langue inuit lang art Book https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_2f33/ 2013 fttriple 2023-01-22T17:38:44Z International audience Compared to other Elizabethan mariners, John Davis has received surprisingly little attention in recent years. This paper aims at suggesting that Davis should be brought back to the center of the narrative, if only to restore some historical balance with Frobisher. We argue that his detached and comparatively unbiased description of the Inuit and (some of) their customs sets him apart from Frobisher. But we also believe that Davis approached their language with remarkable linguistic acuity. One of our main contentions in this paper, which we base on a detailed linguistic analysis of the forty words compiled by Davis, is that the attention he paid to their language provides strong grounds for a revaluation of his role in the history of the quest for the Northwest Passage. Book Arctic Arctique* inuit Northwest passage Passage du Nord-Ouest Unknown Arctic Northwest Passage |
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John Davis (English explorer) + Northwest Passage + Arctic pre-ethnography + Davis's wordlist + historical description of the Inuit language John Davis (explorateur anglais) + Passage du Nord-Ouest + pré-ethnographie arctique + liste de mots de Davis + description historique de la langue inuit lang art |
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John Davis (English explorer) + Northwest Passage + Arctic pre-ethnography + Davis's wordlist + historical description of the Inuit language John Davis (explorateur anglais) + Passage du Nord-Ouest + pré-ethnographie arctique + liste de mots de Davis + description historique de la langue inuit lang art MAHIEU, Marc-Antoine Popelard, Mickaël 'A People of Tractable Conversation': A Reappraisal of Davis's Contribution to Arctic Scholarship (1585-1587) |
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John Davis (English explorer) + Northwest Passage + Arctic pre-ethnography + Davis's wordlist + historical description of the Inuit language John Davis (explorateur anglais) + Passage du Nord-Ouest + pré-ethnographie arctique + liste de mots de Davis + description historique de la langue inuit lang art |
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International audience Compared to other Elizabethan mariners, John Davis has received surprisingly little attention in recent years. This paper aims at suggesting that Davis should be brought back to the center of the narrative, if only to restore some historical balance with Frobisher. We argue that his detached and comparatively unbiased description of the Inuit and (some of) their customs sets him apart from Frobisher. But we also believe that Davis approached their language with remarkable linguistic acuity. One of our main contentions in this paper, which we base on a detailed linguistic analysis of the forty words compiled by Davis, is that the attention he paid to their language provides strong grounds for a revaluation of his role in the history of the quest for the Northwest Passage. |
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Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (Inalco) Langues et civilisations à tradition orale (LACITO) Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3-Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (Inalco)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN) Normandie Université (NU) Équipe de recherche interdisciplinaire sur la Grande-Bretagne, l'Irlande et l'Amérique du Nord (ERIBIA) Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU) Frédéric Regard |
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'A People of Tractable Conversation': A Reappraisal of Davis's Contribution to Arctic Scholarship (1585-1587) |
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'A People of Tractable Conversation': A Reappraisal of Davis's Contribution to Arctic Scholarship (1585-1587) |
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'A People of Tractable Conversation': A Reappraisal of Davis's Contribution to Arctic Scholarship (1585-1587) |
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'A People of Tractable Conversation': A Reappraisal of Davis's Contribution to Arctic Scholarship (1585-1587) |
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'A People of Tractable Conversation': A Reappraisal of Davis's Contribution to Arctic Scholarship (1585-1587) |
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'a people of tractable conversation': a reappraisal of davis's contribution to arctic scholarship (1585-1587) |
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Hyper Article en Ligne - Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société The Quest for the Northwest Passage: Knowledge, Nation and Empire, 1576-1806 Frédéric Regard. The Quest for the Northwest Passage: Knowledge, Nation and Empire, 1576-1806, Pickering & Chatto (Routledge), pp.71-87, 2013, Empires in Perspective |
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