Erasure as a Tool of Nineteenth-Century European Exploration, and the Arctic Travels of Tookoolito and Ipiirvik
The American publisher Charles Francis Hall had no previous experience with the Arctic before he travelled there in 1860. Yet, Hall transformed himself into an Arctic authority, and was given command of a United States governmental funded expedition in 1870. Hall was only able to undertake his work...
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ftuniaarhuspubl:oai:pure.atira.dk:publications/6feeb7ee-4c05-4c86-a741-ae3ee158dbc1 2024-09-15T17:50:43+00:00 Erasure as a Tool of Nineteenth-Century European Exploration, and the Arctic Travels of Tookoolito and Ipiirvik Kaalund, Nanna Katrine Lüders 2023-02 application/pdf https://pure.au.dk/portal/en/publications/6feeb7ee-4c05-4c86-a741-ae3ee158dbc1 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X22000139 https://pure.au.dk/ws/files/382684051/Erasure_as_a_Tool_of_Nineteenth-Century_European_Exploration_and_the_Arctic_Travels_of_Tookoolito_and_Ipiirvik.pdf eng eng https://pure.au.dk/portal/en/publications/6feeb7ee-4c05-4c86-a741-ae3ee158dbc1 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Kaalund , N K L 2023 , ' Erasure as a Tool of Nineteenth-Century European Exploration, and the Arctic Travels of Tookoolito and Ipiirvik ' , The Historical Journal , vol. 66 , no. 1 , pp. 122-140 . https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X22000139 article 2023 ftuniaarhuspubl https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X22000139 2024-06-25T14:18:55Z The American publisher Charles Francis Hall had no previous experience with the Arctic before he travelled there in 1860. Yet, Hall transformed himself into an Arctic authority, and was given command of a United States governmental funded expedition in 1870. Hall was only able to undertake his work in the Arctic because of his relationship with Tookoolito and Ipiirvik, a married Inuit couple from Cumberland Sound, and this article examines the structural processes that enabled Hall to rescript their expertise as his own. Tookoolito and Ipiirvik travelled with Hall for over a decade, a relationship where the unequal power-dynamic was continuously transformed and renegotiated in the United States and the Arctic. Drawing on recent historiographical insights on the construction of exploration knowledge in the imperial context, this article interrogates the epistemic and physical violence involved in Hall's erasure of Tookoolito and Ipiirvik's expertise and personhood. In doing so, I highlight the structural function of the erasure of Indigenous knowledge and labour in the production of nineteenth-century European and Euro-American Arctic science, and its enduring influence on the historiography. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Cumberland Sound inuit Aarhus University: Research The Historical Journal 66 1 122 140 |
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The American publisher Charles Francis Hall had no previous experience with the Arctic before he travelled there in 1860. Yet, Hall transformed himself into an Arctic authority, and was given command of a United States governmental funded expedition in 1870. Hall was only able to undertake his work in the Arctic because of his relationship with Tookoolito and Ipiirvik, a married Inuit couple from Cumberland Sound, and this article examines the structural processes that enabled Hall to rescript their expertise as his own. Tookoolito and Ipiirvik travelled with Hall for over a decade, a relationship where the unequal power-dynamic was continuously transformed and renegotiated in the United States and the Arctic. Drawing on recent historiographical insights on the construction of exploration knowledge in the imperial context, this article interrogates the epistemic and physical violence involved in Hall's erasure of Tookoolito and Ipiirvik's expertise and personhood. In doing so, I highlight the structural function of the erasure of Indigenous knowledge and labour in the production of nineteenth-century European and Euro-American Arctic science, and its enduring influence on the historiography. |
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