A rich variety of stories about encounters: between Danish kings and Greenlanders, Swedish naturalists and the Saami, ethnographers and Inuit. This absorbing collection makes a welcome contribution not only to the understanding of the representation and practice of science in the Nordic regions, but also to the history of science, culture and politics more generally.
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"...The book deserves a wide readership in all fields of knowledge..." -- Kirsten Hastrup, University of Copenhagen
"...a new approach to the field sciences, as agents of influence in the assertion of heritage, ethnicity, and identity..." -- Roy MacLeod, University of Sydney
Highly recommended for environmental historians, arctic area studies,...those interested in a broad approach to postcolonial studies of science... -- CHOICE, February 2003
"...a new approach to the field sciences, as agents of influence in the assertion of heritage, ethnicity, and identity..." -- Roy MacLeod, University of Sydney
Highly recommended for environmental historians, arctic area studies,...those interested in a broad approach to postcolonial studies of science... -- CHOICE, February 2003
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Science of the extreme Nordic World,
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This review is from: Narrating the Arctic: A Cultural History of Nordic Scientific Practices (Hardcover)
Any Arctic enthusiast needs to be flexible, patient, determined, and and resilient in study. The historians of science responsible for the contents of this fine book have succeeded in explaining many things of the NORDIC WORLD IN THE EXTREME as regards to geography and anthropology.
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Discover more about the very top of the world,
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This review is from: Narrating the Arctic: A Cultural History of Nordic Scientific Practices (Hardcover)
Collaboratively compiled and edited by Michael Bravo (Science and Development Research Group, Sott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge University) and Sverker Sorlin (Chair of Environmental History at Umea University, Sweden), Narrating The Arctic: A Cultural History Of Nordic Scientific Practices is an outstanding collection of seminal essays by erudite authors concerning the history of arctic exploration. From Inuit exploratory ventures, to conflicting claims of history, to the Danish arctic research of eighty years ago, to Swedish arctic travels of a hundred and fifty years ago, Narrating The Arctic is a vivid, intense examination and scholarly analysis of the historical quest to venture onto, and discover more about, the very top of the world.
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A vivid, intense examination and scholarly analysis,
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This review is from: Narrating the Arctic: A Cultural History of Nordic Scientific Practices (Hardcover)
Collaboratively compiled and edited by Michael Bravo (Science and Development Research Group, Sott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge University) and Sverker Sorlin (Chair of Environmental History at Umea University, Sweden), Narrating The Arctic: A Cultural History Of Nordic Scientific Practices is an outstanding collection of seminal essays by erudite authors concerning the history of arctic exploration. From Inuit exploratory ventures, to conflicting claims of history, to the Danish arctic research of eighty years ago, to Swedish arctic travels of a hundred and fifty years ago, Narrating The Arctic is a vivid, intense examination and scholarly analysis of the historical quest to venture onto, and discover more about, the very top of the world.
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