Connecting Atlantic and Pacific: Theorizing the Arctic

Waller, Nicole

doi:10.4324/9780429446375-8

Across Currents: Connections Between Atlantic and (Trans)Pacific Studies 2020

DOI: 10.4324/9780429446375-8

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Connecting Atlantic and Pacific: Theorizing the Arctic

Nicole Waller¹

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“…Nicole Waller has recently called for a re-theorization of the Arctic as a connective space, taking into account a specifically Inuit archipelagic imagination where notions of sovereignty, homeland and habitus extends across land, ice and water. 9 Waller's argument on the importance of the "Inuit sea" offers new theoretical scope for scholars of the "Red Atlantic. "…”

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The Inuit discovery of Europe? The Orkney Finnmen, preternatural objects and the re-enchantment of early-modern science

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2020

Atlantic Studies

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The late-seventeenth century saw a peak in accounts of supposed encounters with "Finnmen" in Orkney. These accounts have shaped the folklore of the Northern Isles. Scholars linked to the Royal Society suggested the accounts represented encounters with Inuit. Subsequent explanations included autonomous travel by Inuit groups and abduction and abandonment. These accounts should be understood as part of a European scientific tradition of preternatural philosophy, occupied with the deviations and errors of nature. Far from indicating the presence of Inuit individuals in Orkney waters, they provide evidence of the narrative instability of early-modern science and its habit of "thinking with things." Captivated by Inuit artefacts, the natural philosophers and virtuosi of the Royal Society imagined Orkney as a site of reverse contact with the "primitive." Nineteenth-century antiquarians and folklorists reliant on these texts failed to understand the extent to which objectivity was not an epistemic virtue in early-modern science.

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The Inuit discovery of Europe? The Orkney Finnmen, preternatural objects and the re-enchantment of early-modern science

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The Inuit discovery of Europe? The Orkney Finnmen, preternatural objects and the re-enchantment of early-modern science

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