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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793157003321

Titolo

Traditions, traps, and trends : transfer of knowledge in Arctic regions / / Jarich Oosten and Barbara Helen Miller, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edmonton, Alberta : , : Polynya Press, an imprint of The University of Alberta Press, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

1-77212-402-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxix, 318 pages)

Disciplina

398

Soggetti

Oral tradition

Traditional ecological knowledge

Knowledge, Theory of

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Sommario/riassunto

The transfer of knowledge is a key issue in the North as Indigenous Peoples meet the ongoing need to adapt to cultural and environmental change. In eight essays, experts survey critical issues surrounding the knowledge practices of the Inuit of northern Canada and Greenland and the Northern Sámi of Scandinavia, and the difficulties of transferring that knowledge from one generation to the next. Reflecting the ongoing work of the Research Group Circumpolar Cultures, these multidisciplinary essays offer fresh understandings through history and across geography as scholars analyze cultural, ecological, and political aspects of peoples in transition. Traditions, Traps and Trends is an important book for students and scholars in anthropology and ethnography and for everyone interested in the Circumpolar North. Contributors: Cunera Buijs, Frédéric Laugrand, Barbara Helen Miller, Thea Olsthoorn, Jarich Oosten, Willem Rasing, Kim van Dam, Nellejet Zorgdrager