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Arctic culture and climate / edited by Amber Lincoln, Jago Cooper and Jan Peter Laurens Loovers.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Climatic changes.
- Arctic peoples--Social life and customs.
- Arctic peoples.
- Environmental conditions.
- Civilization.
- Climatology.
- Arctic regions--Climate--Exhibitions.
- Arctic regions.
- Arctic regions--Civilization--Exhibitions.
- Arctic regions--Environmental conditions--Exhibitions.
- Arctic Regions.
- Arctic peoples--Social life and customs--Exhibitions.
- Climatic changes--Arctic regions--Exhibitions.
- Ecology.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 320 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 26 cm
- Other Title:
- The Citi Exhibition : Arctic culture and climate
- Place of Publication:
- London : Thames and Hudson, 2020.
- Summary:
- "Arctic: culture and climate explores the history of the Circumpolar North and its peoples through the lens of climate change and weather, drawing on a wealth of objects, artworks, and voices--from past and present--to show how Arctic Peoples and their cultural traditions have continued to thrive amid both social and environmental change." -- publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Climate change in the Arctic
- The Arctic experience of climate change
- Atigiit, Silapaat
- Alaskan Inuit food sovereignty: from the perspective of a hunting culture
- ch. 2 Seasonal lives
- Relations with animals in the Circumpolar North
- Sakha summer festival
- Reindeer herders and mobility
- ch. 3 Living with weather
- Harnessing weather in hunting livelihoods
- Making my amautis
- Working with nalua: the most delicate of sealskin
- ch. 4 Arctic ancestors
- The earliest Arctic settlers
- 9,000 years ago in the Siberian Arctic: Zhokhov Island
- Earliest-known people in the North American Arctic
- Focusing on the coast
- The first Arctic culture in North America
- The north of western Siberia in the Iron Age: trade, imports, new ideas
- The Punuk/Birnirk interregnum of the 9th to 11th centuries
- ch. 5 A resilient north
- Rapid change
- Russian colonialism
- Southern ambitions
- Trade in the Bering Strait
- Changing state and exploration of the Russian Arctic: expanding horizons of ethnographic knowledge
- The `shaman's mask'
- Governing the Arctic
- The art of resilience
- Living with ice in a changing world.
- Notes:
- "The Citi Exhibition" at head of title.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- This publication accompanies the Citi Exhibition "Arctic: culture and climate" at the British Museum.
- ISBN:
- 9780500480663
- 0500480664
- OCLC:
- 1144801524
- Publisher Number:
- 99985690948
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