Cultivating Arctic Landscapes : Knowing and Managing Animals in the Circumpolar North

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderson, David G.

Contributor:

Nuttall, Mark.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Inuvialuit--Domestic animals.

Inuvialuit.

Inuvialuit--Hunting.

Sami (European people)--Domestic animals.

Sami (European people).

Sami (European people)--Hunting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the last two decades, there has been an increased awareness of the traditions and issues that link aboriginal people across the circumpolar North. One of the key aspects of the lives of circumpolar peoples, be they in Scandinavia, Alaska, Russia, or Canada, is their relationship to the wild animals that support them. Although divided for most of the 20th Century by various national trading blocks, and the Cold War, aboriginal people in each region share common stories about the various capitalist and socialist states that claimed control over their lands and animals. Now, aboriginal people

Contents:

Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Chapter 1 Reindeer, Caribou and ''Fairy Stories'' of State Power; Chapter 2 Uses and Abuses of ''Traditional Knowledge'': Perspectives from Yukon Territory; Chapter 3 Local Knowledge in Greenland: Arctic Perspectives and Contextual Differences; Chapter 4 Codifying Knowledge about Caribou: The History of Inuit Oaujimajatuqangit in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut, Canada; Chapter 5 A Story about a Muskox: Some Implications of Tetlit Gwich''in Human-Animal Relationships

Chapter 6 ''We did not want the muskox to increase'': Inuvialuit Knowledge about Muskox and Caribou Populations on Banks Island, CanadaChapter 7 Political Ecology in Swedish Saamiland ; Chapter 8 Saami Pastoral Society in Northern Norway: The National Integration of an Indigenous Management System; Chapter 9 Chukotkan Reindeer Husbandry in the Twentieth Century: In the Image of the Soviet Economy; Chapter 10 A Genealogy of the Concept of ''Wanton Slaughter'' in Canadian Wildlife Biology

Chapter 11 Caribou Crisis or Administrative Crisis? Wildlife and Aboriginal Policies on the Barren Grounds of Canada, 1947-60Chapter 12 Epilogue; Notes on Contributors; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9781782382096

1782382097

OCLC:

878262987