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

• Published in: IdeAs
• Main Author: Kamboureli, Smaro
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Institut des Amériques 2018
• Subjects: Inuit; Le journal de Knud Rasmussen; Knud Rasmussen; modernité; colonialisme; The Journals of Knud Rasmussen; modernity; colonialism; modernidad; colonialismo; hist; socio; Arctic; Igloolik; Rasmussen; Groenland; inuit; inuite
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/ideas/2553

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,...