Blar i forfatter "Brøgger, Fredrik"

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    • "Naturfolk" i teori og praksis: Skildringen av samene og den nordlige kulturen i Knud Rasmussens Lapland" 

      Brøgger, Fredrik (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2014-07-25)
      This article focuses on the portrayal of reindeer Sami in the Danish explorer Knud Rasmussen's early book Lapland from 1907, a work that has received relatively little attention in Rasmussen scholarship. His characterizations of the Sami reflect conventional, paternalistic ideas of race and culture at the turn of the century as well as romantic-sentimental conceptions of indigenous peoples as noble ...

    • "The Paradoxical Discourse of Language and Silence in Some Contemporary North-American Texts on the Arctic" 

      Brøgger, Fredrik (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      The Arctic has often been regarded (its various indigenous groups notwithstanding) as a desolate and silent void to be explored and defined by Euro-westerners, usuallyin terms of a masculine competitive ethos and an ethnocentric rhetoric of WesternEnlightenment and progress. Surprisingly, even many Norwegian arctic expeditionsof our own time tend to embody similar narratives of conquest and athletic ...

    • Wallace Stegner and the Western Environment : Hydraulics, Placelessness, and (Lack of) Identity 

      Brøgger, Fredrik (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      This article is chiefly concerned with Wallace Stegner’s ideas of aridity as the key to the understanding of the history and culture of the American West. It first examines the arguments of some major books published in the 1980s that helped strengthen Stegner’s conviction that the West was heading towards environmental disaster due to the rapidly increasing depletion of its rivers and aquifers, a ...