David G. Anderson is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen.

"The edited work contains one of the most interesting sets of northern papers to appear in a very long time...each paper is excellent...this book will hopefully provoke considerable thought...This is a work that should be discussed in terms of the particulars of the various papers, but also for the overview it provides." - Polar Record

• List of FiguresForewordby Tim IngoldAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsChapter 1. Reindeer, Caribou and ‘Fairy Stories’ of State PowerDavid G. AndersonChapter 2. Uses and Abuses of ‘Traditional Knowledge’: Perspectives from the Yukon TerritoryJulie CruikshankChapter 3. Local Knowledge in Greenland: Arctic Perspectives and Contextual DifferencesFrank SejersenChapter 4. Codifying Knowledge about Caribou: The History of Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut, CanadaNatasha ThorpeChapter 5. A Story about a Muskox: Some Implications of Tetlit Gwich’in Human–Animal RelationshipsRobert P.WishartChapter 6. ‘We did not want the muskox to increase’: Inuvialuit Knowledge about Muskox and Caribou Populations on Banks Island, CanadaMurielle NagyChapter 7. Political Ecology in Swedish SaamilandHugh BeachChapter 8. Saami Pastoral Society in Northern Norway: The National Integration of an Indigenous Management SystemIvar BjørklundChapter 9. Chukotkan Reindeer Husbandry in the Twentieth Century: In the Image of the Soviet EconomyPatty A. GrayChapter 10. A Genealogy of the Concept of ‘Wanton Slaughter’ in Canadian Wildlife BiologyCraig CampbellChapter 11. Caribou Crisis or Administrative Crisis? Wildlife and Aboriginal Policies on the Barren Grounds of Canada, 1947–60Peter J. UsherChapter 12. Epilogue: Cultivating Arctic LandscapesMark NuttallNotes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex

David G. Anderson is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen.

"The edited work contains one of the most interesting sets of northern papers to appear in a very long time...each paper is excellent...this book will hopefully provoke considerable thought...This is a work that should be discussed in terms of the particulars of the various papers, but also for the overview it provides." - Polar Record

• List of FiguresForewordby Tim IngoldAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsChapter 1. Reindeer, Caribou and ‘Fairy Stories’ of State PowerDavid G. AndersonChapter 2. Uses and Abuses of ‘Traditional Knowledge’: Perspectives from the Yukon TerritoryJulie CruikshankChapter 3. Local Knowledge in Greenland: Arctic Perspectives and Contextual DifferencesFrank SejersenChapter 4. Codifying Knowledge about Caribou: The History of Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut, CanadaNatasha ThorpeChapter 5. A Story about a Muskox: Some Implications of Tetlit Gwich’in Human–Animal RelationshipsRobert P.WishartChapter 6. ‘We did not want the muskox to increase’: Inuvialuit Knowledge about Muskox and Caribou Populations on Banks Island, CanadaMurielle NagyChapter 7. Political Ecology in Swedish SaamilandHugh BeachChapter 8. Saami Pastoral Society in Northern Norway: The National Integration of an Indigenous Management SystemIvar BjørklundChapter 9. Chukotkan Reindeer Husbandry in the Twentieth Century: In the Image of the Soviet EconomyPatty A. GrayChapter 10. A Genealogy of the Concept of ‘Wanton Slaughter’ in Canadian Wildlife BiologyCraig CampbellChapter 11. Caribou Crisis or Administrative Crisis? Wildlife and Aboriginal Policies on the Barren Grounds of Canada, 1947–60Peter J. UsherChapter 12. Epilogue: Cultivating Arctic LandscapesMark NuttallNotes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex

David G. Anderson is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen.

"The edited work contains one of the most interesting sets of northern papers to appear in a very long time...each paper is excellent...this book will hopefully provoke considerable thought...This is a work that should be discussed in terms of the particulars of the various papers, but also for the overview it provides." - Polar Record

• List of FiguresForewordby Tim IngoldAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsChapter 1. Reindeer, Caribou and ‘Fairy Stories’ of State PowerDavid G. AndersonChapter 2. Uses and Abuses of ‘Traditional Knowledge’: Perspectives from the Yukon TerritoryJulie CruikshankChapter 3. Local Knowledge in Greenland: Arctic Perspectives and Contextual DifferencesFrank SejersenChapter 4. Codifying Knowledge about Caribou: The History of Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut, CanadaNatasha ThorpeChapter 5. A Story about a Muskox: Some Implications of Tetlit Gwich’in Human–Animal RelationshipsRobert P.WishartChapter 6. ‘We did not want the muskox to increase’: Inuvialuit Knowledge about Muskox and Caribou Populations on Banks Island, CanadaMurielle NagyChapter 7. Political Ecology in Swedish SaamilandHugh BeachChapter 8. Saami Pastoral Society in Northern Norway: The National Integration of an Indigenous Management SystemIvar BjørklundChapter 9. Chukotkan Reindeer Husbandry in the Twentieth Century: In the Image of the Soviet EconomyPatty A. GrayChapter 10. A Genealogy of the Concept of ‘Wanton Slaughter’ in Canadian Wildlife BiologyCraig CampbellChapter 11. Caribou Crisis or Administrative Crisis? Wildlife and Aboriginal Policies on the Barren Grounds of Canada, 1947–60Peter J. UsherChapter 12. Epilogue: Cultivating Arctic LandscapesMark NuttallNotes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex