Arctic exploration and the mobility of phrenology: John Ross's ethnographic portraits of the Netsilingmiut
Analysing a set of ethnographic images and illustrations resulting from John Ross’s second voyage to find a Northwest Passage in 1829–1833, this article considers the ways in which Arctic exploration intersected with emergent scientific thinking about race and ethnicity in Britain. In particular, it...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/27646 2023-05-15T14:24:15+02:00 Arctic exploration and the mobility of phrenology: John Ross's ethnographic portraits of the Netsilingmiut Høvik, Ingeborg 2022-06-14 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/27646 https://doi.org/10.1080/23801883.2022.2074507 eng eng Taylor & Francis Global Intellectual History Høvik. Arctic exploration and the mobility of phrenology: John Ross's ethnographic portraits of the Netsilingmiut. Global Intellectual History. 2022:1-24 FRIDAID 2051819 doi:10.1080/23801883.2022.2074507 2380-1883 2380-1891 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/27646 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) openAccess Copyright 2022 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 CC-BY-NC-ND Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel Peer reviewed publishedVersion 2022 ftunivtroemsoe https://doi.org/10.1080/23801883.2022.2074507 2022-12-08T00:02:36Z Analysing a set of ethnographic images and illustrations resulting from John Ross’s second voyage to find a Northwest Passage in 1829–1833, this article considers the ways in which Arctic exploration intersected with emergent scientific thinking about race and ethnicity in Britain. In particular, it examines how mobility impacted ideas of phrenology and scientific imaging in the context of the Arctic. As a practitioner of phrenology and member of the Edinburgh Phrenological Society, Ross’s expertise in this new mental science certainly travelled with him to the Arctic. As his field drawings and book illustrations testify, however, Ross’s knowledge was also affected by his immediate contact with the Inuit in Boothia Peninsula in Nunavut. Comparing Ross’s field drawings and illustrations in his twovolume Narrative and Appendix to their accompanying texts and to select ethnographic illustrations produced by his fellow Arctic explorers, this article uncovers the material and conceptual transformations Ross’s scientific visualisation of Inuit underwent during his physical movement between Britain and the Arctic. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Boothia Peninsula inuit Netsilingmiut Northwest passage Nunavut University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Arctic Nunavut Northwest Passage Boothia Peninsula ENVELOPE(-94.000,-94.000,71.001,71.001) Global Intellectual History 1 24 |
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Analysing a set of ethnographic images and illustrations resulting from John Ross’s second voyage to find a Northwest Passage in 1829–1833, this article considers the ways in which Arctic exploration intersected with emergent scientific thinking about race and ethnicity in Britain. In particular, it examines how mobility impacted ideas of phrenology and scientific imaging in the context of the Arctic. As a practitioner of phrenology and member of the Edinburgh Phrenological Society, Ross’s expertise in this new mental science certainly travelled with him to the Arctic. As his field drawings and book illustrations testify, however, Ross’s knowledge was also affected by his immediate contact with the Inuit in Boothia Peninsula in Nunavut. Comparing Ross’s field drawings and illustrations in his twovolume Narrative and Appendix to their accompanying texts and to select ethnographic illustrations produced by his fellow Arctic explorers, this article uncovers the material and conceptual transformations Ross’s scientific visualisation of Inuit underwent during his physical movement between Britain and the Arctic. |
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Arctic exploration and the mobility of phrenology: John Ross's ethnographic portraits of the Netsilingmiut |
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