Contributes to the on-going debate on the nature of the Danish colonization of Greenland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
Investigates the practices of colonial governance and their impact on the formation, negotiation and contestation of identity in the present and the past
Provides important nuances to the understanding of the historical relationship between Denmark and Greenland

Autorentext

Søren Rud is Associate Professor of History at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He has published widely on Greenland, colonialism and techniques of governance. Recent publications include 'Policing and Governance in Greenland: Rationalities of police and colonial rule 1860-1953' in Policing in Colonial Empires: Cases, Connections, Boundaries (ca. 1850-1970).

Inhalt
Introduction.- Colonialism in Greenland: tradition, governance and legacy.- Structure and premise of the book.- Ethnography, time-portals and the idealization of tradition.- Governing through tradition.- A correct admixture: tradition, and the formation of identity.- Consumption, hysteria, and anxiety: diagnosing the Greenlanders' vulnerability.- Shame and crime: the effects and afterlife of tradition.- Culture, identity and colonial legacy in the age of Arctic changes.- Bibliography.