REIMAGINING HUMANANIMAL RELATIONS IN THE

ISBN-13: 9781138482784 / Twarda / 2023 / 224 str.

PETER WHITRIDGE

Opis

This volume provides fresh insight into northern human-animal relations and illustrates the breadth and practical utility of archaeological human-animal studies.

Spis treści

1 Multispecies Northern Worlds: Reimagining Human–Animal Relations in the Circumpolar North

Erica Hill and Peter Whitridge

2 Weasels, Seals, Bears, and Sculpins: Late Dorset Miniature Carvings as Indicators of Individual Hunter–Prey Relationships

Genevieve LeMoine, John Darwent, Christyann Darwent, James Helmer, and Hans Lange

3 Manufacturing Reality: Inuit Harvesting Depictions and the Domestication of Human–Animal Relations

Peter Whitridge

4 Whales, Whaling, and Relational Networks in the Western Arctic

Erica Hill

5 On the Long-Term Cultural Significance of the Traditional Yup’ik Walrus Hunt at Round Island (Qayassiq), Bristol Bay, Alaska

Sean P.A. Desjardins and Sarah M. Hazell

6 Fishy Relations? Human–Fish Engagement in the Norwegian Late Mesolithic (6300–3900 BCE)

Anja Mansrud

7 “Most Beautiful Favorite Reindeer”: Osteobiographies of Reindeer at a Sámi Offering Site in Northern Fennoscandia

Anna-Kaisa Salmi and Markus Fjellström

8 Living with Birds in Northwestern Siberia: Birds and Bird Imagery at Ust’-Polui         

Tatiana Nomokonova, Robert J. Losey, Natalia V. Fedorova, and Andrei V. Gusev

9 Afterword: Storytelling Animals: Human–Nonhuman Relationships in the Arctic

Sean P.A. Desjardins and Peter Jordan

O autorze

Peter Whitridge is Professor in the Department of Archaeology at Memorial University of Newfoundland. He has conducted fieldwork in Canada’s Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Nunatsiavut (Labrador), and has longstanding research interests in Inuit archaeology and human–animal relations.

Erica Hill is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alaska Southeast. She is the editor of Inupiaq Ethnohistory and co-editor of The Archaeology of Ancestors. Her research focuses on human–animal relations, animal geographies, and zooarchaeology in northern Alaska.