The Diary of Abraham Ulrikab : Text and Context


Hartmut. Lutz
Bok Engelsk 2005 · Electronic books.
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Ottawa : : University of Ottawa Press, , 2005.
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1 online resource (120 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Glossary; Abraham's Diary and Letters; Moravian Letters and Documents; Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung; Magdeburgische Zeitung; Neue Preussische Zeitung; Frankfurter Nachrichten; ""Eskimos at the Berlin Zoo""; Appendix A: Abraham's Diary and Inuit Autobiography; Appendix B: German Contexts; Appendix C: Moravian Mission in Hebron, 2002; Bibliography; About Hartmut Lutz, Alootook Ipellie, and Hans-Ludwig Blohm. - In August 1880, businessman Adrian Jakobsen convinced eight Inuit men, women, and children from Hebron and Nakvak, Labrador to accompany him to Europe to be ""exhibited"" in zoos and Völkerschauen (ethnographic shows). Abraham, Maria, Noggasak, Paingo, Sara, Terrianiak, Tobias, and Ulrike agreed, partly for the money and partly out of curiosity to see the wonders of Europe, which they had heard about from Moravian missionaries. The Inuit arrived in the fall of 1880 and were much talked and written about in the local press. Meanwhile, the Moravian missionaries, who had begg
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