The missionary, the catechist, and the hunter : Foucault, protestantism and colonialism / by Christina Petterson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Petterson, Christina, author.

Series:

Studies in critical social sciences ; Volume 4.

Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 1877-2129 ; Volume 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Missions--Greenland.

Missions.

Protestant churches--Missions--Greenland.

Protestant churches.

Subject (Philosophy).

Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.

Foucault, Michel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Missionary, the Catechist and the Hunter examines the role of Protestantism in the Danish colonization of Greenland and shows how the process of colonization entails a process of subjectification where the identity of indigenous population is transformed. The figure of the hunter, commonly regarded as quintessential Inuit figure is traced back to the efforts of the Greenlandic intelligentsia to distance themselves from the hunting lifestyle by producing an abstract hunter identity in Greenlandic literature.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction

Setting the Scene: The Practice of Orthodoxy in Colonial Greenland

Complicating Governmentality: Colonialism, Protestantism, and Greenland

The Lutheran Pastorate in Theory and Practice

Catechists in the Making: Labour, Writing, and Gender

The Ontological Status of the Hunter or The Production of Nature

Rewritten Pasts and Scripts for the Future: Heart of Light

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-27316-6

OCLC:

880826930

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004273160 DOI