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

• 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 anima...

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