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Book SynopsisThe 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
Trade Review“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, 2020
Table of Contents1 | 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
