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Book SynopsisThe Missionary, the Catechist and the Hunter examines the role of Protestantism in the Danish colonisation of Greenland and shows how the process of colonisation 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.
Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface Acknowledgements Notes on Previously Published Material INTRODUCTION Approaching Christianity and Colonialism SETTING THE SCENE: THE PRACTICE OF ORTHODOXY IN COLONIAL GREENLAND Mary Magdalene and Habakuk: A Heresy Takes Place Racialised and Gendered Heresies COMPLICATING GOVERNMENTALITY: COLONIALISM, PROTESTANTISM, AND GREENLAND Pastoral Power and Governmentality Colonialism and Governmentality: Outlining the Issues THE LUTHERAN PASTORATE IN THEORY AND PRACTICE The Protestant Pastorate in Practice Constructing Lutheran Society in Accordance with Natural Law Catechism and Family CATECHISTS IN THE MAKING: LABOUR, WRITING, AND GENDER Writing, Gender, and Abstraction The Introduction of Writing in Greenland Cultivated Estrangement THE ONTOLOGICAL STATUS OF THE HUNTER OR THE PRODUCTION OF NATURE The Instruction of 1782 as Racialised Discourse Race, Class, and Nature The Discourse on the Hunter REWRITTEN PASTS AND SCRIPTS FOR THE FUTURE: HEART OF LIGHT The Colonial Condition of Heart of Light Nationalising and Allegorising Greenland: National Allegory and the Global Community Abject Masculinity Indigenised Politics CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
