How The Stereotypes In The Diary Of Abraham Ulrikah

View of the Inuit from the Outside “The Diary of Abraham Ulrikah: Text and Contest” by the University of Ottawa Press is a primary source book of Abraham Ulrikah’s diary that records his experience in the human zoos his family and himself stayed in, as well as providing letters and newspaper articles with perceptions of Europeans and missionaries. The firsthand and outside perspectives shine light on how Europeans viewed foreign humans, the stereotypes they give them and how the Inuit families were very molded around those stereotypes. News articles like to shroud the Inuit families in mystery, like a new exotic animal that has never been exhibited before. The writer wanted to draw in readers with sense of wonder and curiosity, of these humans
“By the way, this whole “national costume” does, at least in the family converted to Christianity, disappear very quickly, and the women at the mission are even already ashamed of it and particularly like to follow European fashion and to wear wool skirts.” To fit into their stereotype, Abraham and his family had to be persuaded to wear what the Europeans considered more traditional clothing, such as their seal furs and dresses. “Only with much trouble could the members of Abraham’s family be persuaded to return to their forefathers’ custom during their stay in Europe.” However, despite listening to orders to wear their more traditional clothing, the family still sport their European clothing choices which can be seen peeking out of the seal furs the men wear. Sara, the four-year-old daughter, also preferring to wear her crocheted wool hood. “But this did not happen unconditionally either, because we can see European vests and shirts peeking out from under the seal furs the men wear, while four-year-old Sara protects her head with a crocheted wool hood, although even she already possesses beavertail and
“The family is more interesting than the one named first, in so far as culture has not smudged too much of their naturalness.” Tigganick’s family is said represent the natural survival instinct that guides the Eskimos’ lives, they only seek to hunt, have food to fill their stomachs and to fill their lamps with fish oil. They know no other purpose than to survive in their rough conditions. “The survival instinct controls their whole life, they do not know any other task than to supply their stomach with fat and their lamp with fish oil, as task which under the prevailing circumstances, certainly seems big enough to fill a whole human