Project Details: The Alluitsoq Project

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Title:	The Alluitsoq Project
Description	The Alluitsoq Project is a community-based, collaborative research program investigating life at the former Moravian mission of Lichtenau (est. 1774) in South Greenland. It is designed to position descendant community members as key contributors for knowledge co-production, to support local Greenlandic scholars, to contribute to conversations on Arctic Indigneity, and to contribute to millennial-scale studies of climate adaptations. This work also mitigates the impacts of global climate change which is resulting in rapid loss of the archaeological record. Cameron C. Turley (PI) is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. His dissertation investigates ethnogenesis and political identity formation in Colonial-Period South Greenland using persistent and changing foodways as his material analytic. The research combines ethnographic and oral history interviews, archival material, and organic residue analysis to reconstruct and interpret changing culinary traditions. The project supports PhD and MA theses for two Greenlandic students and one other American student: Aká Bendtsen is asking how adoption of new technologies entangles people, things, and global economies and politics to afford new actions in a dynamic culture. Kirstine E. Møller is investigating Noorliit (Neu Herrnhut, Nuuk), Alluitsoq, and Canadian missions to compare mixed Inuit cultural traditions at mission contact zones. Wendi K. Coleman is considering peoples' changing relationships with the environment as seen in shifting subsistence patterns while interacting with imperial networks. Additionally, the Alluitsoq Project is a contributor to the NSF-supported "Co-production of scientific knowledge and the building of local archeological capacity in Greenland" project by adding colonial-period datasets to the millennial-scale study of human-environment interactions and climate adaptations in Greenland.
Keywords:	Indigenous Archaology Greenland Lichtenau Moravian Community-based Collaborative Colonial
Sponsors/Funders	National Science Foundation, Wenner-Gren Foundation, American-Scandinavian Foundation, Lois Roth Endowment
Country	Greenland
Region	Kujalleq Municipality / Kommune Kujalleq
Project Start Year	2019
Project End Year	2022

Project Contact

Contact:	Cameron Turley
Address	365 5th Ave, New York, NY 10016
Postcode	10016
Email	cameronturley@gmail.com

Project Content

Greenland Science Week 2019 Poster
Created for the "Science for You" poster session of Greenland Science Week 2019, this poster gives a brief overview of the project and some preliminary results as of October 2019.

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