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Traditions, Traps and Trends
Transfer of Knowledge in Arctic Regions
Edited by Jarich Oosten and Barbara Helen Miller
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
Book details
Publication date: July 2018Features: 40 B&W photographs, notes, bibliography, index
Keywords: Northern Studies / Traditional Knowledge
Subject(s): SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Northern Studies / Traditional Knowledge, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, EDUCATION / Bilingual Education, Regional studies, Northern Studies / Traditional Knowledge, Education, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Arctic
Publisher(s): The University of Alberta Press
Book details
Publication date: July 2018Features: 40 B&W photographs, notes, bibliography, index
Keywords: Northern Studies / Traditional Knowledge
Subject(s): SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Northern Studies / Traditional Knowledge, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, EDUCATION / Bilingual Education, Regional studies, Northern Studies / Traditional Knowledge, Education, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Arctic
Publisher(s): The University of Alberta Press
“Traditions, Traps and Trends is exceptional in several ways…. [It] reflects the breadth of Indigenous knowledge systems; as it happens here, those of Inuit and Sami. Each contribution provides insight into the complexity and wholeness of these systems by illuminating the values and beliefs that meaningfully animate livelihood and social life.”
"Traditions, Traps and Trends gives a profound insight into traditional knowledge and what it means to the scholars promoting it. The book will be a most welcome reader within this field."
This edited collection of essays is based on long-term fieldwork which documents the unique knowledge practices of Inuit in Canada and Greenland and Northern Sami. The authors examine the problems that Inuit and Northern Sami face when trying to pass on aspects of their culture to the younger generation.
Notes on isumaqsajuq, ilisaijuq, and qaujimajatuqangit
WILLEM C. E . R ASING
2 | Language and Literacy Exchange between the Moravians
and the Inuit
A Transfer of Knowledge in the 18th Century
THEA OLSTHOORN
3 | Traditions, Traps and Tricks
Social Aspects of the Transfer of Inuit qaujimajatuqangit
FRÉDÉRIC LAUGRAND and JARICH OOSTEN
4 | Finding New Places to Transfer Inuit Knowledge
in Nunavut
KIM VAN DAM
5 | Living Objects
The Transfer of Knowledge through East Greenlandic Material Culture
CUNERA BUIJ S
6 | Transfer of Healing Knowledge
A Case Study of the Coastal Sámi
BARBARA HELEN MILLER
7 | Two Traditional Sámi Love Songs and the
Transfer of Knowledge
NELLEJE T ZORGDRAGER
8 | Sámi Storytelling and the Transfer of Knowledge
The Kautokeino Rebellion and Its Aftermath
NELLEJE T ZORGDRAGER
“Traditions, Traps and Trends is exceptional in several ways…. [It] reflects the breadth of Indigenous knowledge systems; as it happens here, those of Inuit and Sami. Each contribution provides insight into the complexity and wholeness of these systems by illuminating the values and beliefs that meaningfully animate livelihood and social life.”
"Traditions, Traps and Trends gives a profound insight into traditional knowledge and what it means to the scholars promoting it. The book will be a most welcome reader within this field."
This edited collection of essays is based on long-term fieldwork which documents the unique knowledge practices of Inuit in Canada and Greenland and Northern Sami. The authors examine the problems that Inuit and Northern Sami face when trying to pass on aspects of their culture to the younger generation.
Notes on isumaqsajuq, ilisaijuq, and qaujimajatuqangit
WILLEM C. E . R ASING
2 | Language and Literacy Exchange between the Moravians
and the Inuit
A Transfer of Knowledge in the 18th Century
THEA OLSTHOORN
3 | Traditions, Traps and Tricks
Social Aspects of the Transfer of Inuit qaujimajatuqangit
FRÉDÉRIC LAUGRAND and JARICH OOSTEN
4 | Finding New Places to Transfer Inuit Knowledge
in Nunavut
KIM VAN DAM
5 | Living Objects
The Transfer of Knowledge through East Greenlandic Material Culture
CUNERA BUIJ S
6 | Transfer of Healing Knowledge
A Case Study of the Coastal Sámi
BARBARA HELEN MILLER
7 | Two Traditional Sámi Love Songs and the
Transfer of Knowledge
NELLEJE T ZORGDRAGER
8 | Sámi Storytelling and the Transfer of Knowledge
The Kautokeino Rebellion and Its Aftermath
NELLEJE T ZORGDRAGER
