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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
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
Publisher(s): The University of Alberta Press
"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.
"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.
