Muskox Land
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Muskox Land

Ellesmere Island in the Age of Contact

  1. 631 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Muskox Land

Ellesmere Island in the Age of Contact

About this book

Critical forces of culture and nature collide in this comprehensive history of Ellesmere Island in the age of contact. Surveying the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Lyle Dick presents an impressive treatment of European-Inuit contact in the High Arctic (the area of what is now the Quttinirpaaq National Park) while considering the roles of the natural environment and cultures as factors in human history. As he charts the dynamic interplay between change and continuity in this forbidden land, Dick unravels the complexities of cultural exchange and human relationships to the Arctic landscape. Muskox Land: Ellesmere Island in the Age of Contact provides a meticulously researched and richly illustrated treatment of Canada's High Arctic as it interweaves insights from historiography, Native studies, ecology, anthropology, and polar exploration.Winner of the Harold Adams Innis Prize for Best English Language Book in the Social Sciences, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. List of Figures
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Note on Orthography and Terminology
  5. Introduction
  6. PART ONE: CONTINUITIES: The Natural Environment, Culture, and Human History
  7. PART TWO: CIRCUMSTANCE: History of Events on Ellesmere Island, 1818–1940
  8. PART THREE: CHANGE: The Interplay of Cultures and the Environment, 1818–1940
  9. PART FOUR: CIRCUMSTANCE, CHANGE, AND CONTINUITY: Inuit on Ellesmere Island, 1951–2000
  10. Conclusion: Ellesmere Island and the Times of History
  11. Colour Photographs
  12. Notes
  13. Bibliography
  14. Index