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Narrating the Arctic: A Cultural History of Nordic Scientific Practices Michael Bravo & Sverker Sörlin, (Editors) Narrating the Arctic, 2002. Canton, Mass., USA: Science History Publications

Contents

Part I: Meta-Narratives of Northern Nations

1. Narrative and Practice - an Introduction (Michael Bravo and Sverker Sörlin)
2. Bodies and Voices from Ultima Thule (Michael Harbsmeier)
3. Rituals and Resources of Natural History: The North and the Arctic in Swedish Scientific Nationalism (Sverker S n)

Part II: Claims and Controversies in the Field

4. Swedish Natural History Travel in the Northern Space: Lapland and Spitzbergen 1800-1840 (Pår Eliasson)
5. The Politics of Naming: Contested Observations and the Shaping of Geographical Knowledge (Urban Wråkberg)
6. Lauge Koch and the Mapping of North East Greenland: Tradition and Modernity in Danish Arctic Research, 1920-1940 (Christopher Ries)

Part III: Technologies of Indigeneity

7. Measuring Danes and Eskimos (Michael Bravo)
8. Arcticality: Gender, Race, and Geography in the Writings of Vilhjalmur Stefansson (Gisli Palsson)
9. The power to Represent. Intertextuality and Discourse in Smilla's Sense of Snow (Kirsten Thisted)