By Søren Rud
This publication explores how the Danish gurus ruled the colonized inhabitants in Greenland within the 19th and 20th centuries. competing narratives of colonialism dominate in Greenland in addition to Denmark. One narrative portrays the Danish colonial undertaking as ruthless and brutal extraction of a susceptible indigenousness humans; the opposite narrative emphasizes nearly solely the benevolent features of Danish rule in Greenland. instead of siding with this kind of narratives, this booklet investigates real practices of colonial governance in Greenland with an outlook to the huge overseas scholarship on colonialism and post-colonialism. The chapters tackle the intimate connections between the institution of an ethnographic discourse and the colonial thoughts of governance in Greenland. Thereby the ebook offers very important nuances to the knowledge of the old dating among Denmark and Greenland and hyperlinks this old trajectory to the current negotiations of Greenlandic identity.
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