The Missionary, the Catechist and the Hunter: Foucault, Protestantism and Colonialism

by Christina Petterson

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The Missionary, the Catechist and the Hunter examines the role of Protestantism in the Danish colonization of Greenland and shows how the process of colonization entails a process of subjectification where the identity of indigenous population is transformed. Petterson convincingly argues that the Greenlandic intelligentsia, seeking to distance themselves from the local hunting lifestyle, created an abstract, and quintessentially Inuit, hunter identity...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1608466450

ISBN13:9781608466450

Release Date:October 2017

Publisher:Haymarket Books

Length:224 Pages

Weight:0.60 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 5.7" x 9.2"

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Religion Religion & Spirituality Social Science Social Sciences

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