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Colonialism in Greenland; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1 Introduction; The Relationship Between Denmark and Greenland; Danish Exceptionalism; Notes; 2 Ethnography, Time, and the Idealization of Tradition; Beyond Voice: Eskimo-Orientalism and the Colonial Project; Early Depictions of Inuit and Greenlanders: Civilized and Corrupted; The Anthropological Time-Portals; Ethnographic Discourse; The Women's Boat Expedition and the True Greenlanders; Time, Space, and Cultural Ideals; Notes
3 Invoking Tradition as a Governance Strategy: Danish Colonial Policies in the Late Nineteenth CenturyEthnographic Discourse and the Rebirth of Tradition; Nineteenth-Century Greenland; Bringing Back Tradition: Hunters, Shepherds, and the Establishment of Local Boards; Combining Traditions with a New Social Landscape; Lists and Designations to Further Colonial Aims; Other Means to Preserve Traditional Practices; Colonial Governmentality and Tradition; The Specificity of the Colonial Project in Greenland; Notes
4 Achieving a Correct Blend: Tradition, Modernization, and the Formation of IdentityIntermarriage and Mixed Children as Tools and Targets of Colonial Governance; Modernization and Tradition among the Greenlandic Elite; Two Lives, Lived Differently; Achieving a Correct Blend; Notes; 5 Diagnosing Vulnerability; Colonial Medicine; Medicine and Medical Experts in Greenland; Diagnosing the Greenlanders' Vulnerability; Mental Disturbances in Greenland During the Colonial Era; Nangiarneq: Dizziness and Anxiety in a Kayak; First Theories: The Greenlanders' Consumption of Coffee and Tobacco
NeurastheniaArctic Neurasthenia; Neurasthenia Across Metropole and Colony: Class, Gender, and the Primitive; Race, Mind, and the Complexities of Modern Life; Notes; 6 Shame and Crime: The Effects and Afterlife of Tradition; Law and Order in Greenland: A Culture-based Penal System?; Ethnography and Punishment in Greenland; Peter Gundel: Intellectual and Criminal; Gundel Before the Mixed Courts of Justice; Gundel's Complaint; A Childish Disposition-First Draft of a Penal Code; Stalled Implementation of the Penal Code; New Charges Against Gundel; Too Heavy an Armor
Second Draft for a Penal Code
"You Ought to Bear Your Shame in Silence"The Juridical Expedition to Greenland; Shame and Crime: The Effects and Afterlife of Tradition; Notes; 7 Toward a Postcolonial Greenland: Culture, Identity, and Colonial Legacy; From Sealing to Fishing: The Push for Equal Opportunities; Visions of a Modern Greenland: The Second Half of the Twentieth Century; The Reappearance of Ethnographic Discourse; Colonialism as the Evil Twin of Modernity?; Shame, Pride, and the Colonial Past; Politics, Language, and Reconciliation; The Reconciliation Commission
Industrial Development and the Understanding of Identity
3 Invoking Tradition as a Governance Strategy: Danish Colonial Policies in the Late Nineteenth CenturyEthnographic Discourse and the Rebirth of Tradition; Nineteenth-Century Greenland; Bringing Back Tradition: Hunters, Shepherds, and the Establishment of Local Boards; Combining Traditions with a New Social Landscape; Lists and Designations to Further Colonial Aims; Other Means to Preserve Traditional Practices; Colonial Governmentality and Tradition; The Specificity of the Colonial Project in Greenland; Notes
4 Achieving a Correct Blend: Tradition, Modernization, and the Formation of IdentityIntermarriage and Mixed Children as Tools and Targets of Colonial Governance; Modernization and Tradition among the Greenlandic Elite; Two Lives, Lived Differently; Achieving a Correct Blend; Notes; 5 Diagnosing Vulnerability; Colonial Medicine; Medicine and Medical Experts in Greenland; Diagnosing the Greenlanders' Vulnerability; Mental Disturbances in Greenland During the Colonial Era; Nangiarneq: Dizziness and Anxiety in a Kayak; First Theories: The Greenlanders' Consumption of Coffee and Tobacco
NeurastheniaArctic Neurasthenia; Neurasthenia Across Metropole and Colony: Class, Gender, and the Primitive; Race, Mind, and the Complexities of Modern Life; Notes; 6 Shame and Crime: The Effects and Afterlife of Tradition; Law and Order in Greenland: A Culture-based Penal System?; Ethnography and Punishment in Greenland; Peter Gundel: Intellectual and Criminal; Gundel Before the Mixed Courts of Justice; Gundel's Complaint; A Childish Disposition-First Draft of a Penal Code; Stalled Implementation of the Penal Code; New Charges Against Gundel; Too Heavy an Armor
Second Draft for a Penal Code
"You Ought to Bear Your Shame in Silence"The Juridical Expedition to Greenland; Shame and Crime: The Effects and Afterlife of Tradition; Notes; 7 Toward a Postcolonial Greenland: Culture, Identity, and Colonial Legacy; From Sealing to Fishing: The Push for Equal Opportunities; Visions of a Modern Greenland: The Second Half of the Twentieth Century; The Reappearance of Ethnographic Discourse; Colonialism as the Evil Twin of Modernity?; Shame, Pride, and the Colonial Past; Politics, Language, and Reconciliation; The Reconciliation Commission
Industrial Development and the Understanding of Identity