The Missionary, the Catechist and the Hunter: Foucault, Protestantism and Colonialism (Studies in Critical Research on Religion, #4) (Studies in Critical Social Sciences)

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.

The figure of the hunter, commonly regarded as quintessential Inuit figure is traced back to the efforts of the Greenlandic intelligentsia to distance themselves from the hunting lifestyle by producing an abstract hunter identity in Greenlandic literature.
  • ISBN10 9004273166
  • ISBN13 9789004273160
  • Publish Date 8 May 2014
  • Publish Status Active
  • Imprint Brill
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 224
  • Language English