Full 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 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
Contents
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
FRÉDÉRIC 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 Sámi
BARBARA HELEN MILLER
7 | Two Traditional Sámi Love Songs and the
Transfer of Knowledge
NELLEJE T ZORGDRAGER
8 | Sámi Storytelling and the Transfer of Knowledge
The Kautokeino Rebellion and Its Aftermath
NELLEJE T ZORGDRAGER
