Traditions, Traps and Trends
Transfer of Knowledge in Arctic Regions
Published on 23. July 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-1-77212-372-2 (ISBN)
Description
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 Sami 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, Frederic Laugrand, Barbara Helen Miller, Thea Olsthoorn, Jarich Oosten, Willem Rasing, Kim van Dam, Nellejet Zorgdrager
Contributors: Cunera Buijs, Frederic Laugrand, Barbara Helen Miller, Thea Olsthoorn, Jarich Oosten, Willem Rasing, Kim van Dam, Nellejet Zorgdrager
Reviews / Votes
"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." -- Kirsten Thisted 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. -- David G. Anderson, Chair in The Anthropology of the North, University of Aberdeen "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." -- George W. Wenzel, Journal of Northern Studies, 2020More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Edmonton
Canada
Publishing group
University of Alberta Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
544 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-77212-372-2 (9781772123722)
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Persons
Jarich Oosten (1945-2016) was emeritus Professor of the Department of Anthropology at Leiden University and the author of numerous publications. Barbara Helen Miller, PhD in Anthropology from Leiden University (the Netherlands) is currently an independent scholar, working in co-operation with the Research Group Circumpolar Cultures. She received the Master of Arts in Psychology of Religion from the Norwich University, Vermont College (Montpelier, Vermont, USA) and the Diploma in Analytical Psychology at the C.G. Jung Institute Zuerich (Kuesnacht, Switzerland). Her most widely read publication is Connecting and Correcting, A Case Study of Sami Healers in Porsanger. Leiden: CNWS (2007).
Content
1 | The Transformation and Transfer of Inuit Knowledge
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
FREDERIC 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 Sami
BARBARA HELEN MILLER
7 | Two Traditional Sami Love Songs and the
Transfer of Knowledge
NELLEJE T ZORGDRAGER
8 | Sami Storytelling and the Transfer of Knowledge
The Kautokeino Rebellion and Its Aftermath
NELLEJE T ZORGDRAGER
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
FREDERIC 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 Sami
BARBARA HELEN MILLER
7 | Two Traditional Sami Love Songs and the
Transfer of Knowledge
NELLEJE T ZORGDRAGER
8 | Sami Storytelling and the Transfer of Knowledge
The Kautokeino Rebellion and Its Aftermath
NELLEJE T ZORGDRAGER