Cultivating Arctic Landscapes : : Knowing and Managing Animals in the Circumpolar North / / ed. by Mark Nuttall, David G. Anderson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Anderson, David G.,; Beach, Hugh,; Bjørklund, Ivar,; Campbell, Craig,; Cruikshank, Julie,; Gray, Patty A.,; Ingold, Tim,; Nagy, Murielle,; Nuttall, Mark,; Sejersen, Frank,; Thorpe, Natasha,; Usher, Peter J.,; Wishart, Robert P.,
• HerausgeberIn: Anderson, David G.,; Nuttall, Mark,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2004]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Reindeer, Caribou and ‘Fairy Stories’ of State Power -- 2 Uses and Abuses of ‘Traditional Knowledge’: Perspectives from the Yukon Territory -- 3 Local Knowledge in Greenland: Arctic Perspectives and Contextual Differences -- 4 Codifying Knowledge about Caribou: The History of Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut, Canada -- 5 A Story about a Muskox: Some Implications of Tetlit Gwich’in Human–Animal Relationships -- 6 ‘We did not want the muskox to increase’: Inuvialuit Knowledge about Muskox and Caribou Populations on Banks Island, Canada -- 7 Political Ecology in Swedish Saamiland -- 8 Saami Pastoral Society in Northern Norway: The National Integration of an Indigenous Management System -- 9 Chukotkan Reindeer Husbandry in the Twentieth Century: In the Image of the Soviet Economy -- 10 A Genealogy of the Concept of ‘Wanton Slaughter’ in Canadian Wildlife Biology -- 11 Caribou Crisis or Administrative Crisis? Wildlife and Aboriginal Policies on the Barren Grounds of Canada, 1947–60 -- 12 Epilogue: Cultivating Arctic Landscapes -- Notes on Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index