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Category: Arctic Cultures Blog

A Letter from Nuuk

Posted on July 16, 2021 | by rcp31

 

In this blog post, PDRA John Woitkowitz reflects on the implications of nineteenth-century Greenlandic and German mapmaking for a global history of Arctic cartography.

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The Lasting Legacies of Learning Kalaallisut

Posted on April 30, 2021 | by rcp31

 

In this blog post, PDRA Peter Martin explores the history of international interest in the Kalaallisut language.

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Adrift in Ice and Time

Posted on February 11, 2021 | by rcp31

 

In this blog post, PDRA John Woitkowitz reflects on the uses of history in the 2019-20 MOSAiC expedition to the central Arctic Ocean.

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The Arctic as a ‘natural archive’?

Posted on January 15, 2021 | by rcp31

 

In this blog post, PDRA Johanne Bruun reflects on the different ways in which Arctic landscapes and sites have been imagined, used, and approached as ‘natural archives’.

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Hans Egede, ice-cream and museum exhibits: Is Denmark ready to reckon with its colonial past (and present)?

Posted on December 9, 2020 | by rcp31

 

In this blog post, PDRA Nanna Kaalund investigates the ongoing developments in relations between Denmark and Greenland. She argues that only by understanding the past can we comprehend events in the Greenlandic-Danish present.

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Futures for Arctic Studies after #2020?

Posted on November 12, 2020 | by rcp31

 

In this post, PI Richard Powell reflects on the future study of the Arctic and how the project has been affected by a tumultuous year.

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Holes in the Story? ‘Dorset Culture’ and dating Arctic objects

Posted on June 8, 2020 | by rcp31

 

In this blog post, PDRA Peter Martin studies the ‘discovery of the Dorset Culture’ and explores some of the techniques used by archaeologists in the early twentieth century to determine the age of objects excavated in the Arctic regions.

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Researching the field from home

Posted on May 12, 2020 | by rcp31

 

In this blog post, PDRA Johanne Bruun discusses the relationship between Arctic fieldwork and archival research in the context of the global response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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What can a Cholera map tell us about Arctic cartography?

Posted on April 22, 2020 | by rcp31

 

In this post of our Arctic Cultures blog, PDRA John Woitkowitz investigates connections between the mapping of disease and Arctic geography.

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Creating and erasing: the use of photographs during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875

Posted on April 2, 2020 | by rcp31

 

In this episode of our blog, PDRA Nanna Kaalund draws from her research for the Arctic Cultures project to talk about the uses of photographic methods in Arctic science and exploration.

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      • Case study 04
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    • Richard C. Powell
    • Jenny Dunstall
    • Morgan Ip
    • Elizabeth Walsh
    • Johanne Bruun
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    • John Woitkowitz
    • Mari Kleist
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