Arctic exploration and the mobility of phrenology: John Ross's ethnographic portraits of the Netsilingmiut

• Published in: Global Intellectual History
• Main Author: Høvik, Ingeborg
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis 2022
• Subjects: Arctic; Nunavut; Northwest Passage; Boothia Peninsula; inuit; Netsilingmiut; Northwest passage
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/27646; https://doi.org/10.1080/23801883.2022.2074507

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...