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

这篇论文的研究项目是新不伦瑞克罗格斯大学的Pi Susan Schepfer和Copi Karen Routledge，旨在研究敌对环境和生存的文化建构，以及这些概念如何塑造19世纪的国家身份和政府政策。研究人员Routledge将使用定性和定量的民族史学方法，比较加拿大各地的四个不同的历史事件：因纽特人从巴芬岛到格陵兰的迁徙；美国坎伯兰海峡的捕鲸站；因纽特人和非因纽特人被困在上面长达六个月的浮冰；以及美国人对埃尔斯梅尔岛的探险，以便从土著和非土著的角度对勘探的性质提供新的见解。

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.