Politics, Bureaucracy, and Arctic Archaeology in Canada, 1910-39
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16865481 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Barnett Richling (Mount Saint Vincent University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 1995-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | ARCTIC (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-0843 • E-ISSN: 1923-1245 |
| Publisher | The Arctic Institute of North America (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.14430/arctic1232 |
| OpenAlex | W2096495534 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 15 |
Until the post-World War II period most of Canada's professional archaeologists and ethnologists were attached to the Anthropological Division of the National Museum in Ottawa, originally founded in 1910 as a branch of the Geological Survey. As they were federal employees, their scientific work was largely dependent on, and ultimately limited by, what politicians and senior bureaucrats deemed to be in the public interest. This paper considers some implications of this arrangement for one aspect of Anthropological Division activity before World War II - its involvement in arctic archaeology. While government personnel made a number of substantive contributions to what was then a developing field of research and scholarship, archival sources suggest that prevailing political and institutional conditions weighed against the division's continuing participation in northern fieldwork during these years. Instead, its role was effectively limited to encouraging and, on occasion, coordinating the research of American, British, and European archaeologists working on problems pertaining to the prehistory of the Canadian Arctic.Key words: arctic archaeology, history of Canadian archaeology; National Museum of Canada
Archaeology · Arctic · Bureaucracy · Ethnology · Government (linguistics) · Political science · Politics · Prehistory · Scholarship · World War II · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · History · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Law · Oceanography · Polar Research and Ecology
Ancient men of the Arctic.
Stefansson and the Canadian Arctic
Diamond Jenness and the National Museum of Canada
An Anthropologist’s Apprenticeship
Diamond Jenness's archaeological investigations on Barter Island, Alaska
The W.B. Nickerson Survey and Excavations, 1912-15, of the Southern Manitoba Mounds Region
Captured heritage
Science and the Canadian Arctic
A New Eskimo Culture in Hudson Bay
Ethnological Problems in Canada
Two New Cape Dorset Sites
Eskimo Sites of the Dorset Culture in Newfoundland
A Stone Culture From Northern Labrador and Its Relation to the Eskimo-like Cultures of the Northeast
An Anthropologist's Apprenticeship
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,04 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 1998 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |