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19 produkter
Benefits of the Cold and Domestication
A New Understanding of Human–Animal Partnerships for Thriving in Extreme Environments
Av Florian Stammler, Hiroki Takakura
Inbunden, 2025
2525 kr
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This book explores cooperation between humans and animals in extreme environments and contends that understanding domestication is crucial to explaining how life is possible in such conditions.The chapters draw on work from anthropology, genetics, law, and geography, with a range of ethnographic …
Dogs in the North
Stories of Cooperation and Co-Domestication
Av Robert J. Losey, Robert P. Wishart m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
731 kr
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Dogs in the North offers an interdisciplinary in-depth consideration of the multiple roles that dogs have played in the North. Spanning the deep history of humans and dogs in the North, the volume examines a variety of contexts in North America and Eurasia. The case studies build on archaeological, …
Negotiating Personal Autonomy
Communication and Personhood in East Greenland
Häftad, 2020
739 kr
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Negotiating Personal Autonomy offers a detailed ethnographic examination of personal autonomy and social life in East Greenland.Examining verbal and non-verbal communication in interpersonal encounters, Elixhauser argues that social life in the region is characterized by relationships based upon a …
Sociality of Indigenous Dance in Alaska
Happiness, Tradition, and Environment among Yupik on St. Lawrence Island and Iñupiat in Utqiaġvik
Av Hiroko Ikuta
Inbunden, 2022
2525 kr
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This book explores indigenous dances and social relationships surrounding the dance activities among Yupik on St. Lawrence Island and Iñupiat in Utqiaġvik, Northern Alaska. Yupik and Iñupiat proudly distinguish their indigenous styles of dance, locally called ‘Eskimo dance’, from Western styles of …
Sociality of Indigenous Dance in Alaska
Happiness, Tradition, and Environment among Yupik on St. Lawrence Island and Iñupiat in Utqiaġvik
Av Hiroko Ikuta
Häftad, 2024
671 kr
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This book explores indigenous dances and social relationships surrounding the dance activities among Yupik on St. Lawrence Island and Iñupiat in Utqiaġvik, Northern Alaska. Yupik and Iñupiat proudly distinguish their indigenous styles of dance, locally called ‘Eskimo dance’, from Western styles of …
Extracting Home in the Oil Sands
Settler Colonialism and Environmental Change in Subarctic Canada
Av Clinton Westman, Tara Joly m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2525 kr
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The Canadian oil sands are one of the world’s most important energy sources and the subject of global attention in relation to climate change and pollution. This volume engages ethnographically with key issues concerning the oil sands by working from anthropological literature and beyond to explore …
Reading Life with Gwich'in
An Educational Approach
Häftad, 2021
710 kr
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This book is based upon more than two years of ethnographic fieldwork and personal experiences with the Teetł’it Gwich’in community in northern Canada. The author provides insight into Gwich’in understandings of life as well as into historical and political processes that have taken place in the …
Extracting Home in the Oil Sands
Settler Colonialism and Environmental Change in Subarctic Canada
Av Clinton Westman, Tara Joly m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
710 kr
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The Canadian oil sands are one of the world’s most important energy sources and the subject of global attention in relation to climate change and pollution. This volume engages ethnographically with key issues concerning the oil sands by working from anthropological literature and beyond to explore …
Why Sámi Sing
Knowing through Melodies in Northern Norway
Inbunden, 2022
2209 kr
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Why Sámi Sing is an anthropological inquiry into a singing practice found among the Indigenous Sámi people, living in the northernmost part of Europe. It inquires how the performance of melodies, with or without lyrics, may be a way of altering perception, relating to human and non-human presences, …
Why Sámi Sing
Knowing through Melodies in Northern Norway
Häftad, 2024
671 kr
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Why Sámi Sing is an anthropological inquiry into a singing practice found among the Indigenous Sámi people, living in the northernmost part of Europe. It inquires how the performance of melodies, with or without lyrics, may be a way of altering perception, relating to human and non-human presences, …
Reimagining Human-Animal Relations in the Circumpolar North
Av Peter Whitridge, Erica Hill
Häftad, 2025
731 kr
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This volume provides fresh insight into northern human–animal relations and illustrates the breadth and practical utility of archaeological human–animal studies. It surveys recent archaeological research in northern North America and Eurasia that frames human–animal relations as not merely …
Re-activating Indigenous Knowledge from Oral History
Landscape and Intangible Cultural Heritage in Greenland
Av Asta Mønsted
Inbunden, 2025
2601 kr
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This book focuses on Greenlandic oral history and how to better understand people, their cultural remains, and their landscape through their own stories. It offers a way to consult Inuit oral history that opens up a perspective on houses and landscapes that may otherwise be invisible to the barren …
Benefits of the Cold and Domestication
A New Understanding of Human–Animal Partnerships for Thriving in Extreme Environments
Av Florian Stammler, Hiroki Takakura
Häftad, 2026
710 kr
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This book explores cooperation between humans and animals in extreme environments and contends that understanding domestication is crucial to explaining how life is possible in such conditions.The chapters draw on work from anthropology, genetics, law, and geography, with a range of ethnographic …
Sacred Places in the Arctic and Beyond
Cultural and Existential Transitions
Av Francis Joy, Patrick Dillon m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
2525 kr
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Sacred Places in the Arctic and Beyond brings together indigenous and nonindigenous scholars, rightsholders, and practitioners to explore the status and management of sacred places, which are important as both tangible and intangible cultural heritage. It acknowledges the critical functions and …
Indigenous Arctic Infrastructures
Av David G. Anderson, Jaanika Vider
Inbunden, 2026
2489 kr
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This book focuses on the concept of unwritten Indigenous Arctic infrastructures. It takes inspiration from activists in the field of Indigenous studies, who argue that ‘critical’ Indigenous infrastructures are often not railways, pipelines or data cables, but instead sacred places and sustainable …
Negotiating Personal Autonomy
Communication and Personhood in East Greenland
Inbunden, 2018
2525 kr
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Negotiating Personal Autonomy offers a detailed ethnographic examination of personal autonomy and social life in East Greenland.Examining verbal and non-verbal communication in interpersonal encounters, Elixhauser argues that social life in the region is characterized by relationships based upon a …
Dogs in the North
Stories of Cooperation and Co-Domestication
Av Robert J. Losey, Robert P. Wishart m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
2600 kr
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Dogs in the North offers an interdisciplinary in-depth consideration of the multiple roles that dogs have played in the North. Spanning the deep history of humans and dogs in the North, the volume examines a variety of contexts in North America and Eurasia. The case studies build on archaeological, …
Reimagining Human-Animal Relations in the Circumpolar North
Av Peter Whitridge, Erica Hill
Inbunden, 2023
2600 kr
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This volume provides fresh insight into northern human–animal relations and illustrates the breadth and practical utility of archaeological human–animal studies. It surveys recent archaeological research in northern North America and Eurasia that frames human–animal relations as not merely …
Reading Life with Gwich'in
An Educational Approach
Inbunden, 2019
2525 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book is based upon more than two years of ethnographic fieldwork and personal experiences with the Teetł’it Gwich’in community in northern Canada. The author provides insight into Gwich’in understandings of life as well as into historical and political processes that have taken place in the …
