Caribou to Cod: Moravian Missionary Influence on Inuit Subsistence Strategies

Arendt, Beatrix

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“…The Moravians – with their long history of experience in mission work – were well aware of the importance of the benefits of such economic exchanges in establishing a successful mission. Arendt (: 85‐86) has shown that Moravian Missionaries in Labrador, Canada sought to establish and retain control over access to European material goods as a means of opening and maintaining interaction with Inuit peoples. As she describes, the Moravians quickly realised that “Inuit initially visited the mission for European goods and not the Christian message” and attempted to capitalise on this by establishing trading stores (Arendt : 85).…”

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“…Arendt (: 85‐86) has shown that Moravian Missionaries in Labrador, Canada sought to establish and retain control over access to European material goods as a means of opening and maintaining interaction with Inuit peoples. As she describes, the Moravians quickly realised that “Inuit initially visited the mission for European goods and not the Christian message” and attempted to capitalise on this by establishing trading stores (Arendt : 85). With the support of the government, these became the only places where Inuit people could exchange their goods and labour for European items.…”

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“…For an individual to be declared a convert, she or he had to demonstrate a basic understanding of Christian doctrine, for this was viewed as the basis of a profound and serious commitment to a Christian life in the long term (Edwards ). Conversion was also symbolised by monogamy, nuclear family units, the adoption of European material items including styles of dress, a preference for a sedentary existence, and the inclination to work in exchange for wages or goods (Arendt ; Lydon ).…”

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“Their God is their belly”: Moravian missionaries at the Weipa Mission (1898–1932), Cape York Peninsula

Morrison

McNaughton

Keating

2015

Archaeology in Oceania

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The Weipa Mission (1898–1932) on Cape York Peninsula (north‐eastern Australia) was one of seven Australian missions designed and staffed by the Moravian Church during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. We present findings of archaeological and historical research that illustrate key aspects of the settlement's development and operations. Moravian missionaries at Weipa aimed to create a built landscape that reshaped Aboriginal social, cultural and economic relations, with particular emphasis on children through the use of a dormitory system. However, their efforts were mediated by the open spatial and social boundaries of the settlement, which enabled Aboriginal people to make choices about the nature and extent to which they engaged with the mission. Adopting a political economy approach, we show that this openness emerged through complex social relationships between missionaries and Aboriginal people. While missionaries required access to children and adults, they lacked the ability (or will) to maintain a resident population through force, with limited financial resources also hampering their activities. Instead, Aboriginal people came and went from the settlement, with some establishing and maintaining social relationships with missionaries to access economic and social benefits. We argue that these social relationships led to the development of the settlement as a more open domain.

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“Their God is their belly”: Moravian missionaries at the Weipa Mission (1898–1932), Cape York Peninsula

Morrison

McNaughton

Keating

2015

Archaeology in Oceania

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“…Historical archaeology shows the ways that religious conversion was part of a broader process of 'culture change' in the colonial era, particularly in North America (e.g. Arendt 2010;Lightfoot 2005;Panich and Schneider, eds 2014) and Australasia (e.g. Lydon 2009;Middleton 2008;Morrison et al 2015).…”

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An Archaeology of Early Christianity in Vanuatu

Flexner¹

2016

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terra australis 44Terra Australis reports the results of archaeological and related research within the south and east of Asia, though mainly Australia, New Guinea and island Melanesia -lands that remained terra australis incognita to generations of prehistorians. Its subject is the settlement of the diverse environments in this isolated quarter of the globe by peoples who have maintained their discrete and traditional ways of life into the recent recorded or remembered past and at times into the observable present.

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“…Over the course of the 1800s, missions were established in the far-flung corners of Empire. Archaeological studies of mission life cover Eastern Africa and Madagascar (Crossland, 2006(Crossland, , 2013Croucher, 2013;Frankl, 2008Frankl, : 1015, Oceania (Flexner, 2013;Middleton, 2008;Smith, 2014), the Canadian Arctic (Arendt, 2010;Loring & Arendt, 2009), California (Lightfoot, 2005;Panich & Schneider, 2014). There is also an abundant recent literature on nineteenth-and early twentieth-century Protestant missions in Aboriginal Australia and parishes on the European settler frontiers (e.g.…”

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Sherds of Paradise: Domestic Archaeology and Ceramic Artefacts from a Protestant Mission in the South Pacific

Flexner

Ball

2016

Eur. j. archaeol.

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Postmedieval protestant missionaries working in exotic locations used objects both as a marker of their own ‘civilisation’ in contrast to that of the local populations and as a means of engaging these communities with Christianity. European things were displayed and conspicuously used to encourage a consumer mindset and interest in capitalism, thought to be crucial steps on the path to full conversion. Excavations at a Presbyterian mission house on Tanna Island, Vanuatu, recovered a remarkable assemblage of nineteenth-century British-made transfer-printed ceramics for such a remote location. These objects reflect multiple, complex meanings including performance of a ‘civilised’ British identity, romanticized ideals of pastoral landscapes, and conceptions of death and rebirth in the afterlife. These meanings were complicated by the context of cross-cultural interactions that were necessary to the missionary project.

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Caribou to Cod: Moravian Missionary Influence on Inuit Subsistence Strategies

Cited by 8 publications

References 13 publications

“Their God is their belly”: Moravian missionaries at the Weipa Mission (1898–1932), Cape York Peninsula

“Their God is their belly”: Moravian missionaries at the Weipa Mission (1898–1932), Cape York Peninsula

An Archaeology of Early Christianity in Vanuatu

Sherds of Paradise: Domestic Archaeology and Ceramic Artefacts from a Protestant Mission in the South Pacific

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