Encounters on the Passage: Inuit Meet the Explorers (by Dorothy Harley Eber)
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Abstract
The Canadian Arctic is a land haunted by the past.The popular imagination swells with well-rehearsed narratives gleaned from the logbooks and journals of northern exploration: perilous journeys, ice-locked ships, the mysterious locations and remains of vanished expeditions.Amongst Inuit populations, an equally poignant remembrance of history prevails, with oral accounts of traditional culture and "the way things were" continuing to inform and impact everyday life.For centuries, these two brands of Arctic history-the writt en and the spoken-have remained largely independent of one another, circulating within their oft en exclusive social and cultural spheres.However, the recent push of scholarship to reconcile these mediums has resulted in the emergence of a new scholarly practice in which the multiple voices of indigenous communities are revealed and explored alongside the established historical canon.Dorothy Harley Eber's Encounters on the Passage: Inuit Meet the Explorers typifi es this new trend.Having already demonstrated her profi ciency in documenting and preserving Inuit oral tradition through such wellknown works as When the Whalers Were up North and Pitseolak: Pictures Out of My Life, Eber now assumes the daunting task of using these narratives to reinvestigate the history of Inuit-explorer contact in the Canadian Arctic.Her work juxtaposes the widely recognized texts of Arctic explorers with a series of parallel Inuit accounts collected over twelve years of interviewing in various Nunavut communities.While the goal of the book is ultimately to foster a new and more holistic understanding of crosscultural encounter, Eber's narrative also contains a theoretical subtext that addresses the perseverance, reliability, and mutability of indigenous oral tradition.As one of her Inuit informants, Tommy Angutt itauruq, admitt ed during an interview, "Every time the stories are told, maybe they're a litt le bit diff erent; there's a litt le bit added and maybe some things left out" (xviii).Questions regarding the past, present, and future of oral tradition as a medium for preserving historical narratives weigh heavily throughout this text.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.009 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.023 | 0.004 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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