Legacies of David Cranz's 'Historie von Grönland' (1765)
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| Summary: | XVI, 317 p. 9 illus., 7 illus. in color. text |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2021.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2021. |
| Series: | Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63998-3 |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: More than the sum of its parts: David Cranz’s Historie von Grönland- Felicity Jensz and Christina Petterson
- Part I: Religious context and reception
- 2. Moravians in Greenland: Barren Shores and Fruitful Missions- Christina Petterson
- 3. David Cranz’ History of Greenland and Physico-Theology- Kathrine Kjærgaard
- Part II: English-language Reception and Print Culture
- 4. “a collection of absurdities”: Reception of two English versions of Cranz’s book in Britain, 1767 & 1820- Felicity Jensz
- 5. Unbecoming Heretics: Knowledge, Missionary Stories, and the Legacy of David Cranz in North America- Jared Burkholder
- Part III: Scientific Importance and Influence
- 6. Circulation of Arctic Knowledge among German Protestants in the 18th century – The example of David Cranz´s Historie von Grönland- Joanna Kodzik
- 7. Early Meteorological Observations in Greenland: The Contributions of David Cranz, Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein and Christopher Brasen- Gaston Demarée and Astrid Elisabeth Ogilvie
- 8. Greenland in Hungary: Inuit Culture and the Emergence of the Science of Anthropology in Late Eighteenth – Early Nineteenth Century Hungary- Ildikó SzKristof
- 9. The Soul of the Arctic. David Cranz’s account of the religion or superstitions of the Greenlanders and its impact on 19th Century descriptions of religion in Greenland- Åmund Norum Resløkken
- Part IV: Cranz and the Medium of Missions
- 10. The “United Brethren” and Johann Gerhard König—Cranz’s Historie von Grönland as an avenue to the natural history of India- Thomas Ruhland
- 11. Cranz’s Greenland as a Steeping Stone to Labrador: Tracing the Profile of the Inuit- Thea Olsthoorn
- Part V: The Post-colonial Cranz
- 12. Cranz Revisited: Greenland in Greenland- Claire McLiskey
- 13. Appendix: David Cranz’s Lebenslauf- Paul Peucker.