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Papers by Anne Mette Jorgensen

Polar Record, 2019

Mining activities in the Arctic often have a strong impact on people living here and the sustaina... more Mining activities in the Arctic often have a strong impact on people living here and the sustainability of their communities. The article takes as its point of departure two widely different cases relating to Arctic communities: the former mining city of Qullissat in the Greenlandic Disko Bay area and the rural village of Sakajärvi, which is threatened by expansions of the Aitik copper mine in the Norbotten County, Sweden. The cases differ in terms of time span, the number of people affected and the intensity of the affective economies, but they go through comparable processes of giving rise to emotional communities as a result of the termination or expansion of mining activities. Based on field observations and social and web-based media, the author argues that various actors with diverging purposes here compete to install their respective temporalities and narratives in the processes of communitification, i.e., by articulating borders or performing as community. In both cases, the...

SAME AND OTHER

Page 118. 119 Sankofa and Modern Authenticity in Ghanaian Film and Television Anne Mette Jørgense... more Page 118. 119 Sankofa and Modern Authenticity in Ghanaian Film and Television Anne Mette Jørgensen Student:What makes a film an African Film? Lecturer:I think from the very beginning we should say that it'sa story told ...

TemaNord, 2020

Nordisk Museologi

Since 2014, the National Museum of Denmark has collaborated with theCanadian organisations Kitikm... more Since 2014, the National Museum of Denmark has collaborated with theCanadian organisations Kitikmeot Heritage Society (Cambridge Bay, Nunavut)and Geomatics & Cartographic Research Centre at Carleton University to makematerials from the Inuinnait (Copper Inuit) area collected during the 5th ThuleExpedition (1921–1924) digitally available firstly to people in Cambridge Bay,and secondly to a wider public. The ambition is now to make the totality of the5th Thule Expedition material digitally available through the so-called Tumisiutproject,in order to integrate it into a wider framework of a new Nordic curatorialand research collaboration around Arctic and Sub-Arctic collections. Pivotalaspects of these collaborations are discussions on various domains of ownershiprights such as “world heritage”, “cultural rights”, and “copyright”. The initial stepshave recently been taken by the National Museum of Denmark and the Museumof Cultural History, University of Oslo.

Études/Inuit/Studies, 2013

L’archéologue danois Jørgen Meldgaard (1927-2007) était un cinéaste passionné. Les archéologues d... more L’archéologue danois Jørgen Meldgaard (1927-2007) était un cinéaste passionné. Les archéologues d’aujourd’hui pourraient s’inspirer de sa passion pour ce médium qu’est le film. Il a produit trois documentaires incontournables au cours de sa carrière, chacun d’eux illustrant une tendance importante de la représentation scientifique de l’Autre durant la seconde partie du XXe siècle. Cet article analyse ses films en portant une attention particulière à la manière dont Meldgaard est passé d’une représentation des Inuit en tant qu’objets à une représentation en tant que sujets. Il effectue également une comparaison de ses films avec ses deux ouvrages sur l’art inuit et les replace dans le contexte des développements méthodologiques contemporains en archéologie et en anthropologie. Il conclut en recommandant aux futurs archéologues de suivre l’exemple de Meldgaard en s’engageant dans le partage de la connaissance, par l’intermédiaire des médias audiovisuels, avec les gens concernés par le...

Further Developments in the Theory and Practice of Cybercartography, 2019

Between 1921 and 1924, a Danish-Greenlandic anthropological expeditions completed the first compr... more Between 1921 and 1924, a Danish-Greenlandic anthropological expeditions completed the first comprehensive recording of Inuit societies in Canada, documenting a vast amount of Inuit knowledge through the linguistic and cultural fluency of its expedition members. The timing of the expedition coincided with the end of an era when many Inuit were still living, or could remember, a pre-Christian worldview and material lifestyle. The Inuit knowledge collected by the expedition is in the form of oral traditions, songs, traditional place names, linguistic information, genealogical information, Inuit drawn maps, photographs, and ethnographic objects. The Kitikmeot Heritage Society has initiated the Fifth Thule Expedition Atlas project to develop an interactive multimedia atlas application that will digitally return this wealth of cultural knowledge to contemporary Canadian Inuit. This article focuses on describing the type and quality of Inuit knowledge collected by the expedition, in addition to the considerations and partnerships behind the Atlas' development.

Denmark and the New North Atlantic : Narratives and Memories in a Former Empire, 2020

Polar Record, 2020

I: Danmark og kolonierne: Vestafrika: Forterne på Guldkysten. Vol. 1:5 Gad, 2017. s. 352-367. I ... more I: Danmark og kolonierne: Vestafrika: Forterne på Guldkysten. Vol. 1:5 Gad, 2017. s. 352-367.

I slutningen af 1400-tallet ankom de første europæere til Guldkysten, og i midten af 1600-tallet meldte Danmark-Norge sig ind i kampen for at få del i handelen med først guld og elfenben og senere med mennesker.

Vestafrika – Forterne på Guldkysten fortæller historien om den danske tilstedeværelse, der var helt afhængig af de skiftende alliancer med rivaliserende afrikanske stater, som kæmpede om magten i området.

På højdepunktet i slutningen af 1700-tallet var der fem danske forter på Guldkysten, men i lange perioder balancerede de dansk-norske besiddelser på randen af katastrofen - plaget af sygsom, krig og intern splid. Og ambitionerne om at etablere en egentlig koloni på Guldkysten lykkedes aldrig for danskerne, som i midten af 1800-tallet overlod sine forter til briterne. Alligevel var Guldkysten en vigtig brik i det danske kongerige, idet forterne var hovedbase for den danske slavehandel fra Vestafrika. Godt 100.000 afrikanere blev ofre for denne handel.

Vestafrika – Forterne på Guldkysten indgår i det kolonihistoriske standardværk Danmark og kolonierne, der i fem bind behandler Danmarks rolle i den europæiske kolonialisme. Værkets bind supplerer hinanden, men kan også læses hver for sig.
Andre bind i Danmark og kolonierne:
Danmark - En kolonimagt
Grønland – Den arktiske koloni
Vestindien – St. Croix, St. Thomas og St. Jan
Indien – Tranquebar, Serampore og Nicobarerne

Danmark og kolonierne er skrevet af en række af landets førende kolonihistorikere under ledelse af en hovedredaktion bestående af: H.C. Gulløv (Nationalmuseet), Poul Olsen (Rigsarkivet), Niels Brimnes (Aarhus Universitet), Per Hernæs (NTNU, Trondheim), Mikkel Venborg Pedersen (Nationalmuseet) og Erik Gøbel (Rigsarkivet).

Vestafrika – Forterne på Guldkysten er skrevet af Per Hernæs (red.) (NTNU, Trondheim), Ole Justesen (Københavns Universitet), Pernille Ipsen (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Erik Gøbel (Rigsarkivet), Daniel P. Hopkins (University of Missouri-Kansas City) og Anne Mette Jørgensen (Nationalmuseet).

This chapter discusses one of few women documentary filmmakers of the Arctic, Danish Jette Bang. ... more This chapter discusses one of few women documentary filmmakers of the Arctic, Danish Jette Bang. A prolific photographer and filmmaker in Greenland throughout her career, Jørgensen shows how the early color film Inuit (1940) was nimbly shot and cinematographically deliberate. Made for the 1940 International Polar Year, the film and accompanying photo book created substantial media coverage when it premiered in Copenhagen. Bang’s later films, including her depictions of a changing Greenlandic society in the 1950s and 60s, this chapter argues, were made with the intent to both document Greenlandic life in the post-war era and as a testament to Denmark’s benevolent colonial rule of Greenland. Bang’s films thereby showcase the welfare state and industrial modernization processes imported Greenland, while maintaining an interest in ‘traditional’ practices and customs.

In: Films on Ice: Cinemas of the Arctic
Scott MacKenzie and Anna Westerstahl Stenport (eds.)
Edinburgh University Press 2015

PhD dissertation. University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Humanities. 2017. 258 p.

This article is an investigation of the dialogic collaboration between Jean Rouch and his family ... more This article is an investigation of the dialogic collaboration between Jean Rouch and his family of “Scoundrels,” with whom Rouch made numerous films in Niger. By “walking in the footsteps of Jean Rouch” and making a film with these informants, friends, and collaborators, the author has studied their methodologies. In this essay, she discusses their dialogic aspects, including the impact of this collaboration on the lives of the informants. She poses the question of whether dialogic methods may lead not only to the sharing of knowledge but also to a dialogic exchange of ways of knowing.

Visual Anthropology, Vol. 20, Nr. 1, 01.2007, s. 57-73

Abstract: Since its founding in the early 1970s, the Nordic Anthropological Film Association (NA... more Abstract:

Since its founding in the early 1970s, the Nordic Anthropological Film Association (NAFA) has worked to promote ethnographic films and visual anthropology all over the world. This article details NAFA's archival work, festival and conferences, its sponsorship of visual anthropology courses and workshops when no such offerings were available in universities, its role in piloting multimedia museum projects, as well as its information and publishing services. The article concludes with a listing of the annual events of the Nordic Anthropological Film Association 1979-2005.

Publication Date: 2007

Publication Name: Visual Anthropology Review

Books by Anne Mette Jorgensen

Curating Film in Ethnographic Exhibitions, 2019

Curating film in ethnographic exhibitions and museums is a long-existing, hybrid and largely unar... more Curating film in ethnographic exhibitions and museums is a long-existing, hybrid and largely unarticulated field that this special issue now sheds light on. The contributors reflect on how ethnographic film may intensify sensorial engagements, raise levels of curiosity and comprehension, and enhance mediation between different ways of sensing the world. Dialogue and montage are guiding principles to several of the contributors writing about their own curatorial work and/or filmmaking. They expand on dialogic collaborations with subjects and audiences in different stages, from production to exhibition and beyond. Following from that, the guest editor concludes that curating and producing ethnographic films and exhibitions is methodologically, practically and politically complex and highly urgent.

TemaNord, ISSN 0908-6692 ; 2020:514, 2020

Nordic national cultural history museums are linked with Arctic societies due to the shared herit... more Nordic national cultural history museums are linked with Arctic societies due to the shared heritage of substantial museum collections. We share concerns to re-vitalize, preserve and exchange knowledge on this heritage. Thanks to a grant from NMR’s The Nordic region and its neighbors to the west the National Museum (DK) in partnership with the Museum of Cultural History (NO) in 2017-19 successfully executed the project Arctic heritage in Nordic museums. Strengthening Arctic efforts in Nordic national museums. This volume presents recommendations within the project’s three major fields:

Intensified collaboration on digital strategies and heritage perspectives with Canadian Inuit organizations,
a comprehensive and critical analysis of digital databases of cultural institutions in the ABM sector,
the constitution of a feasible and sustainable Nordic Cross-Arctic Museum Network.