Qallunology of an Arctic Whaling Encounter: An Inuk’s Transatlantic Voyage, 1839 to 1840
This thesis borrows the analytical framework of Qallunology to examine a nineteenth-century Arctic whaling encounter between Scottish whalers and an Inuk geographer: Inulluapik. This thesis analyzes the narrative, written by Scottish surgeon Alexander M’Donald, of Inulluapik’s transatlantic journey...
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ftuvicpubl:oai:dspace.library.uvic.ca:1828/14277 2023-05-15T14:41:59+02:00 Qallunology of an Arctic Whaling Encounter: An Inuk’s Transatlantic Voyage, 1839 to 1840 Pearce, Anne-Marie Cook, Peter 2022 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/1828/14277 English en eng http://hdl.handle.net/1828/14277 Available to the World Wide Web Qallunology Inuit history Non-Inuit history History Arctic history Cumberland Sound Indigenous-Settler Nineteenth Century Victorian period Scotland Aberdeen Whaling Whalers Canadian Arctic Gender Spirituality Eskimology Thesis 2022 ftuvicpubl 2022-10-04T23:44:10Z This thesis borrows the analytical framework of Qallunology to examine a nineteenth-century Arctic whaling encounter between Scottish whalers and an Inuk geographer: Inulluapik. This thesis analyzes the narrative, written by Scottish surgeon Alexander M’Donald, of Inulluapik’s transatlantic journey to Aberdeen, Scotland and Tinnujivik (Cumberland Sound) from 1839 to 1840. I show how Inulluapik’s experience in Aberdeen in 1839, as recorded by M’Donald, provides insight into early Victorian worldviews and perceptions, which I call M’Donald’s Qallunaat-dom and Qallunaat-ness. By conducting a Qallunology of M’Donald’s description of the historical episode, I examine his early Victorian Qallunaat-dom, which compared Inuit from the eastern Arctic to Scots in Aberdeen through his binary understanding of whaling, gender, and spirituality. M’Donald’s interpretation of Inulluapik’s experience demonstrated his contrasting views of Inuit and non-Inuit cultures, which intersected with early Victorian ideas of civilization, intelligence, behaviour, appearance, respectability, female domesticity and marital purity, and Indigenous authenticity. In contrast, Inulluapik demonstrated fluid resistance to M’Donald’s early Victorian binaries of subsistence versus commercial whaling, rural versus urban, primitive versus advanced, and uncivilized versus civilized, and Indigenous versus non-Indigenous. Graduate Thesis Arctic Cumberland Sound eskimo* inuit University of Victoria (Canada): UVicDSpace Arctic Cumberland Sound ENVELOPE(-66.014,-66.014,65.334,65.334) Qallunaat ENVELOPE(-56.350,-56.350,73.600,73.600) |
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Qallunology Inuit history Non-Inuit history History Arctic history Cumberland Sound Indigenous-Settler Nineteenth Century Victorian period Scotland Aberdeen Whaling Whalers Canadian Arctic Gender Spirituality Eskimology Pearce, Anne-Marie Qallunology of an Arctic Whaling Encounter: An Inuk’s Transatlantic Voyage, 1839 to 1840 |
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Qallunology Inuit history Non-Inuit history History Arctic history Cumberland Sound Indigenous-Settler Nineteenth Century Victorian period Scotland Aberdeen Whaling Whalers Canadian Arctic Gender Spirituality Eskimology |
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This thesis borrows the analytical framework of Qallunology to examine a nineteenth-century Arctic whaling encounter between Scottish whalers and an Inuk geographer: Inulluapik. This thesis analyzes the narrative, written by Scottish surgeon Alexander M’Donald, of Inulluapik’s transatlantic journey to Aberdeen, Scotland and Tinnujivik (Cumberland Sound) from 1839 to 1840. I show how Inulluapik’s experience in Aberdeen in 1839, as recorded by M’Donald, provides insight into early Victorian worldviews and perceptions, which I call M’Donald’s Qallunaat-dom and Qallunaat-ness. By conducting a Qallunology of M’Donald’s description of the historical episode, I examine his early Victorian Qallunaat-dom, which compared Inuit from the eastern Arctic to Scots in Aberdeen through his binary understanding of whaling, gender, and spirituality. M’Donald’s interpretation of Inulluapik’s experience demonstrated his contrasting views of Inuit and non-Inuit cultures, which intersected with early Victorian ideas of civilization, intelligence, behaviour, appearance, respectability, female domesticity and marital purity, and Indigenous authenticity. In contrast, Inulluapik demonstrated fluid resistance to M’Donald’s early Victorian binaries of subsistence versus commercial whaling, rural versus urban, primitive versus advanced, and uncivilized versus civilized, and Indigenous versus non-Indigenous. Graduate |
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Pearce, Anne-Marie |
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Qallunology of an Arctic Whaling Encounter: An Inuk’s Transatlantic Voyage, 1839 to 1840 |
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Qallunology of an Arctic Whaling Encounter: An Inuk’s Transatlantic Voyage, 1839 to 1840 |
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Qallunology of an Arctic Whaling Encounter: An Inuk’s Transatlantic Voyage, 1839 to 1840 |
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Qallunology of an Arctic Whaling Encounter: An Inuk’s Transatlantic Voyage, 1839 to 1840 |
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Qallunology of an Arctic Whaling Encounter: An Inuk’s Transatlantic Voyage, 1839 to 1840 |
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qallunology of an arctic whaling encounter: an inuk’s transatlantic voyage, 1839 to 1840 |
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2022 |
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ENVELOPE(-66.014,-66.014,65.334,65.334) ENVELOPE(-56.350,-56.350,73.600,73.600) |
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Arctic Cumberland Sound Qallunaat |
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Arctic Cumberland Sound Qallunaat |
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Arctic Cumberland Sound eskimo* inuit |
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Arctic Cumberland Sound eskimo* inuit |
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