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

Published by Berghahn Books 2004

Cultivating Arctic Landscapes

Knowing and Managing Animals in the Circumpolar North

Edited by: David G. Anderson and Mark Nuttall

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782382096

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About this book

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 peoples throughout the region are reclaiming their rights.

This volume is the first to give a well-rounded portrait of wildlife management, aboriginal rights, and politics in the circumpolar north. The book reveals unexpected continuities between socialist and capitalist ecological styles, as well as addressing the problems facing a new era of cultural exchanges between aboriginal peoples in each region.

Author / Editor information

David G. Anderson is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen.

Mark Nuttall is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen.

David G. Anderson is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen.

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"The edited work contains one of the most interesting sets of northern papers to appear in a very long time...each paper is excellent...this book will hopefully provoke considerable thought...This is a work that should be discussed in terms of the particulars of the various papers, but also for the overview it provides." - Polar Record

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Foreword Tim Ingold Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	xiv
List of Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
1 Reindeer, Caribou and ‘Fairy Stories’ of State Power David G. Anderson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2 Uses and Abuses of ‘Traditional Knowledge’: Perspectives from the Yukon Territory Julie Cruikshank Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
3 Local Knowledge in Greenland: Arctic Perspectives and Contextual Differences Frank Sejersen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
4 Codifying Knowledge about Caribou: The History of Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut, Canada Natasha Thorpe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
5 A Story about a Muskox: Some Implications of Tetlit Gwich’in Human–Animal Relationships Robert P. Wishart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
6 ‘We did not want the muskox to increase’: Inuvialuit Knowledge about Muskox and Caribou Populations on Banks Island, Canada Murielle Nagy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
7 Political Ecology in Swedish Saamiland Hugh Beach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
8 Saami Pastoral Society in Northern Norway: The National Integration of an Indigenous Management System Ivar Bjørklund Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	124
9 Chukotkan Reindeer Husbandry in the Twentieth Century: In the Image of the Soviet Economy Patty A. Gray Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	136
10 A Genealogy of the Concept of ‘Wanton Slaughter’ in Canadian Wildlife Biology Craig Campbell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
11 Caribou Crisis or Administrative Crisis? Wildlife and Aboriginal Policies on the Barren Grounds of Canada, 1947–60 Peter J. Usher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	172
12 Epilogue: Cultivating Arctic Landscapes Mark Nuttall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	210
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 256
Keywords: Environmental Studies (General); Anthropology (General)

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Published: January 1, 2004
ISBN: 9781782382096