This book explores how the Danish authorities governed the
colonized population in Greenland in the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries. Two competing narratives of colonialism dominate in
Greenland as well as Denmark. One narrative portrays the Danish
colonial project as ruthless and brutal extraction of a vulnerable
indigenousness people; the other narrative emphasizes almost
exclusively the benevolent aspects of Danish rule in Greenland.
Rather than siding with one of these narratives, this book
investigates actual practices of colonial governance in Greenland
with an outlook to the extensive international scholarship on
colonialism and post-colonialism. The chapters address the intimate
connections between the establishment of an ethnographic discourse
and the colonial techniques of governance in Greenland. Thereby the
book provides important nuances to the understanding of the
historical relationship between Denmark and Greenland and links
this historical trajectory to the present negotiations of
Greenlandic identity.
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