Dissertation Research: Arctic Survival, 1850-1884: Adaptation and Cross-Cultural Interaction

这篇论文的研究项目，PI苏珊schrefer和CoPI凯伦劳特利奇，罗格斯大学新不伦瑞克，是为了研究敌对环境和生存的文化结构，以及这些概念如何在19世纪塑造国家身份和政府政策。研究人员劳特利奇将使用定性和定量的民族历史方法，比较加拿大四个不同的历史事件：因纽特人从巴芬岛迁移到格陵兰岛；美国在坎伯兰湾的捕鲸站；一块因纽特人和非因纽特人被困在上面长达6个月的浮冰，以及一支前往埃尔斯米尔岛的美国探险队，目的是从土著和非土著的角度对探索的本质提供新的见解。

This dissertation research project, PI Susan Schrepfer and CoPI Karen Routledge, Rutgers University New Brunswick, is to examine cultural constructs of hostile environments and survival and how these concepts shaped national identities and governmental policies in the 19th century. Using qualitative and quantitative ethnohistoric methodology, the researcher, Routledge, will compare four distinct historical events across Canada: the Inuit migration from Baffin Island to Greenland; American whaling stations in Cumberland Sound; an ice floe on which Inuit and non-Inuit were marooned for six months, and an American expedition to Ellsmere Island, in order to provide new insights in to the nature of exploration from both indigenous and non-indigenous perspectives.