Wilhelm Weike, a 23-year old handyman from Minden/Germany, accidentally found himself spending the year of 1883-84 among Inuit and wintering with whalers on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic. The fledgling scientist Franz Boas (1858-1942), later the eminent cultural anthropologist, hired Weike to attend to and assist him in his geographical and ethnological research following the first Polar Year of 1882-83. Weike's journal is a fascinating text and an exceptional piece of working-class literature.Ludger Müller-Wille and Bernd Gieseking have edited and annotated Weike's journal extensively. They present his biography and highlight his observations and his contributions to Boas's scientific work.

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Information

Publisher

Baraka Books

Year

2012

ISBN

9781926824451

Topic

History

Subtopic

World History

Index

History

Title
PREFACE The arctic year of an ordinary German
INTRODUCTION Wilhelm Weike with Franz Boas among Inuit and whalers — duties and chronicling
PART I WILHELM WEIKE Arctic Journal and Letters (1883-1884)
PART 2 WILHELM WEIKE Life in Germany and on Baffin Island (1859-1917)
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Available or Forthcoming from Baraka Books
Notes