Inuit and Whalers on Baffin Island Through German Eyes

Wilhelm Weike's Arctic Journal and Letters (1883–84)

Ludger Muller-Wille, Bernd Gieseking (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

286 Seiten

2011 | First English Edition
Baraka Books (Verlag)
978-1-926824-11-6 (ISBN)

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Told from an ordinary man’s perspective, these are the journal and letters of Wilhelm Weike as he accompanied Franz Boas—the father of modern anthropology—on his journey to the arctic from 1883 to 1884. This extraordinary document of early arctic history provides a plain, direct view of the Inuit and the whalers in their arctic environment at the end of the 19th century. With invaluable contextual and complementary information, this book contributes key insights during the recent wave of scientific assessment of Franz Boas’s legacy in all social sciences.

Ludger Müller-Wille is a retired professor of geography and northern studies at McGill University and the author of Franz Boas with the Inuit of Baffin Island, 1883–1884: Journals and Letters. He has studied ethnicity and human-environmental relations in the arctic and subarctic among the Sámi and Finns, Inuit, Dene, and Naskapi. He lives in Montreal, Quebec. Bernd Gieseking is a cabaret artist and author of children's radio plays and theatre plays. He has hosted theatre, radio, and TV shows, including The Annual Satirical Review. William Barr is a research fellow at the Arctic Institute of North America and the author of Arctic Hell-Ship, Arctic Scientist, Gulag Survivor, and Joseph-Elzéar Bernier. He is also the recipient of a lifetime achievement award from the Canadian Historical Association for his contributions to the historiography of the Canadian North. He lives in Calgary, Alberta.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.11.2011
Übersetzer	William Barr
Verlagsort	Montreal
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	445 g
Themenwelt	Reiseführer ► Nord- / Mittelamerika ► Kanada
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-926824-11-3 / 1926824113
ISBN-13	978-1-926824-11-6 / 9781926824116
Zustand	Neuware