• Arctic exploration and the mobility of phrenology: John Ross's ethnographic portraits of the Netsilingmiut 

      Høvik, Ingeborg (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-06-14)
      Analysing a set of ethnographic images and illustrations resulting from John Ross’s second voyage to find a Northwest Passage in 1829–1833, this article considers the ways in which Arctic exploration intersected with emergent scientific thinking about race and ethnicity in Britain. In particular, it examines how mobility impacted ideas of phrenology and scientific imaging in the context of the ...
    • Framing the Arctic: Reconsidering Roald Amundsen's Gjøa Expedition Imagery 

      Høvik, Ingeborg (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      In 1906 Roald Amundsen’s Gjøa Expedition returned to Norway after three years in the Arctic. The first to complete a Northwest Passage by sea, the expedition also brought back a substantial amount of ethnographic material concerning the Netsilik Inuit, with whom Amundsen and his crew had been in sustained contact during their stay on King William Island in Nunavut between 1903 and 1905. This ...
    • Humanity on the move in the era of Enlightenment and colonisation 

      Buchan, Bruce; Burnett, Linda Andersson; Høvik, Ingeborg (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-06-14)
      In modern times, since commerce is so much extended, that people in very distant parts of the world, have an almost constant communication with one another, we have much better access to know the different circumstances which can affect men in different situations … [and] has produced a very considerable effect in enlarging our ideas on this subject.
    • Outsider Art? Herleik Kristiansens kunstneriske prosesser 

      Federhofer, Marie-Theres; Høvik, Ingeborg (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-12-09)
      Denne artikkelen utfordrer anvendeligheten av konseptet <i>Outsider Art</i> gjennom en analyse av Herleik Kristiansens kunstneriske prosesser. Kristiansen er psykisk utviklingshemmet, og i perioden 1963–93 var han beboer ved institusjonen Trastad Gård. Prosessene som diskuteres er: Kristiansens utvikling som kunstner, hans særegne måte å skape kunst på og til sist transformasjonen av natur til kultur ...
    • Reproducing the Indigenous: John Møller’s Studio Portraits of Greenlanders in Context 

      Høvik, Ingeborg (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016-08-30)
      Between 1889 and 1922, John Møller (1867–1935), the first professional Greenlandic photographer, produced more than 3000 glass plate negatives documenting life in Western Greenland around the turn of the twentieth century. Rooted in an internal understanding of self, Møller’s photographs played an important part in the formation of a contemporary image of Greenlandic indigenous identity. At the same ...
    • Traces of an Arctic Voice: The Portrait of Qalaherriaq 

      Høvik, Ingeborg; Jeremiassen, Axel (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-02-09)
      This article analyses the portrait of the young Inughuit hunter Qalaherriaq, who was brought involuntarily to England from his home in Perlernerit (Cape York) in today's Kalaallit Nunaat (also known as Greenland) with Captain Erasmus Ommanney’s expedition vessel in 1851. The portrait’s highly unconventional representation, wherein the sitter is shown both en face and in profile, betrays an interest ...