Legacies of David Cranz's 'Historie von Grönland' (1765) / Felicity Jensz, Christina Petterson.
Jensz, Felicity, editor.; Petterson, Christina, editor.
2021
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Title
Legacies of David Cranz's 'Historie von Grönland' (1765) / Felicity Jensz, Christina Petterson.
ISBN
3030639983 (PDF ebook)
9783030639983 (electronic bk.)
9783030639976 (hbk.)
3030639975
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63998-3
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations (some color)
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-63998-3 doi
Call Number
G760
Dewey Decimal Classification
279.8
Summary
This book brings together interdisciplinary scholars from history, theology, folklore, ethnology and meteorology to examine how David Cranzs Historie von Gronland (1765) resonated in various disciplines, periods and countries. Collectively the contributors demonstrate the reach of the book beyond its initial purpose as a record of missionary work, and into secular and political fields beyond Greenland and Germany. The chapters also reveal how the book contributed to broader discussions and conceptualizations of Greenland as part of the Atlantic world. The interdisciplinary scope of the volume allows for a layered reading of Cranzs book that demonstrates how different meanings could be drawn from the book in different contexts and how the book resonated throughout time and space. It also makes the broader argument that the construction of the Artic in the eighteenth century broadened our understanding of the Atlantic.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 31, 2021).
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Jensz, Felicity, editor.
Petterson, Christina, editor.
Series
Christianities in the trans-Atlantic world.
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Print version: 9783030639976
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Introduction: More than the sum of its parts: David Cranz's Historie von Grönland / Felicity Jensz and Christina Petterson
Moravians in Greenland: Barren Shores and Fruitful Missions / Christina Petterson
David Cranz' History of Greenland and Physico-Theology / Kathrine Kjærgaard
"A collection of absurdities": Reception of two English versions of Cranz's book in Britain, 1767 and 1820 / Felicity Jensz
Unbecoming Heretics: Knowledge, Missionary Stories, and the Legacy of David Cranz in North America / Jared Burkholder
Circulation of Arctic Knowledge among German Protestants in the 18th century: The example of David Cranz's Historie von Grönland / Joanna Kodzik
Early Meteorological Observations in Greenland: The Contributions of David Cranz, Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein and Christopher Brasen / Gaston Demarée and Astrid Elisabeth Ogilvie
Greenland in Hungary: Inuit Culture and the Emergence of the Science of Anthropology in Late Eighteenth-Early Nineteenth Century Hungary / Ildikó SzKristof
The Soul of the Arctic. David Cranz's account of the religion or superstitions of the Greenlanders and its impact on 19th Century descriptions of religion in Greenland / Åmund Norum Resløkken
The "United Brethren" and Johann Gerhard König
Cranz's Historie von Grönland as an avenue to the natural history of India / Thomas Ruhland
Cranz's Greenland as a Steeping Stone to Labrador: Tracing the Profile of the Inuit / Thea Olsthoorn
Cranz Revisited: Greenland in Greenland / Claire McLiskey
Appendix: David Cranz's Lebenslauf / Paul Peucker.

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