Category: Arctic Cultures Blog

In this blog post, PDRA Peter Martin discusses his recent fieldwork in Denmark and the USA and reflects on the varying levels of access to Arctic archives.

In this blog post, PDRA Nanna Kaalund reflects on Danish explorer Knud Rasmussen, the ways in which he has been remembered in Copenhagen, and the consequences for both Greenland and Denmark.

In this blog post, PDRA Peter Martin explores the ways in which travellers in the Arctic used poetry and song as a means to communicate ethnographic information about the Inuit to a variety of audiences.

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.

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

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

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’.

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.

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.

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.