Traditions, traps and trends : transfer of knowledge in Arctic regions

Oosten, J. G., 1945- (Added Author). Miller, Barbara Helen, 1949- (Added Author).

Summary: 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.

Record details

ISBN: 9781772123722 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
xxix, 318 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Edmonton, Alberta : Polynya Press, an imprint of the University of Alberta Press, 2018.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	The transformation and transfer of Inuit knowledge -- Language and literacy exchange between the Moravians and the Inuit -- Traditions, traps and tricks -- Finding new places to transfer Inuit knowledge in Nunavut -- Living objects -- Transfer of healing knowledge -- Two traditional Sami love songs and the transfer of knowledge -- Sami storytelling and the transfer of knowledge.