Qallunology of an Arctic Whaling Encounter: An Inuk’s Transatlantic Voyage, 1839 to 1840

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dc.contributor.authorPearce, Anne-Marie
dc.contributor.supervisorCook, Peter
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-28T17:19:11Z
dc.date.available2022-09-28T17:19:11Z
dc.date.copyright2022en_US
dc.date.issued2022-09-28
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Historyen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis borrows the analytical framework of Qallunology to examine a nineteenth-century Arctic whaling encounter between Scottish whalers and an Inuk geographer: Inulluapik. This thesis analyzes the narrative, written by Scottish surgeon Alexander M’Donald, of Inulluapik’s transatlantic journey to Aberdeen, Scotland and Tinnujivik (Cumberland Sound) from 1839 to 1840. I show how Inulluapik’s experience in Aberdeen in 1839, as recorded by M’Donald, provides insight into early Victorian worldviews and perceptions, which I call M’Donald’s Qallunaat-dom and Qallunaat-ness. By conducting a Qallunology of M’Donald’s description of the historical episode, I examine his early Victorian Qallunaat-dom, which compared Inuit from the eastern Arctic to Scots in Aberdeen through his binary understanding of whaling, gender, and spirituality. M’Donald’s interpretation of Inulluapik’s experience demonstrated his contrasting views of Inuit and non-Inuit cultures, which intersected with early Victorian ideas of civilization, intelligence, behaviour, appearance, respectability, female domesticity and marital purity, and Indigenous authenticity. In contrast, Inulluapik demonstrated fluid resistance to M’Donald’s early Victorian binaries of subsistence versus commercial whaling, rural versus urban, primitive versus advanced, and uncivilized versus civilized, and Indigenous versus non-Indigenous.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/14277
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectQallunologyen_US
dc.subjectInuit historyen_US
dc.subjectNon-Inuit historyen_US
dc.subjectHistoryen_US
dc.subjectArctic historyen_US
dc.subjectCumberland Sounden_US
dc.subjectIndigenous-Settleren_US
dc.subjectNineteenth Centuryen_US
dc.subjectVictorian perioden_US
dc.subjectScotlanden_US
dc.subjectAberdeenen_US
dc.subjectWhalingen_US
dc.subjectWhalersen_US
dc.subjectCanadian Arcticen_US
dc.subjectGenderen_US
dc.subjectSpiritualityen_US
dc.subjectEskimologyen_US
dc.titleQallunology of an Arctic Whaling Encounter: An Inuk’s Transatlantic Voyage, 1839 to 1840en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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