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• eBook available August 2013

  About the Hearth

  Perspectives on the Home, Hearth and Household in the Circumpolar North

  Anderson, D. G., Wishart, R. P., & Vaté, V. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Archaeology Museum Studies Heritage Studies

• eBook available April 2022

  Arctic Abstractive Industry

  Assembling the Valuable and Vulnerable North

  Mason, A. (ed)

  Examining the processes at work in sites of industrial extraction and ecological vulnerability in the contemporary Arctic, this book looks at the displacements that conceal exploitation, on the one hand, and appropriations of value on the other.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies

• January 2004

  Cultivating Arctic Landscapes

  Knowing and Managing Animals in the Circumpolar North

  Anderson, D. G. & Nuttall, M. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

• December 2010

  Hunters in the Barrens

  The Naskapi on the Edge of the White Man's World

  Henriksen, G.

  
   

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

• eBook available October 2014

  Hunters, Predators and Prey

  Inuit Perceptions of Animals

  Laugrand, F. & Oosten, J.

  Inuit hunting traditions are rich in perceptions, practices and stories relating to animals and human beings. Laugrand and Oosten examine the roles of animals from the small and non-social, such as the raven, to those considered fellow hunters, the bear and the dog. “Prey par excellence,” or caribou, seals, and the whale, are discussed in conjunction with the renewal of whale hunting.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

• October 2008

  I Dreamed the Animals

  Kaniuekutat: The Life of an Innu Hunter

  Henriksen, G.

  
  

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

• eBook available July 2016

  Living on Thin Ice

  The Gwich'in Natives of Alaska

  Dinero, S. C.

  Using quantitative and qualitative data gathered since the turn of the millennium, this volume offers an interdisciplinary evaluation of social and economic changes amongst the Gwich’in Natives of Alaska.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Urban Studies

• November 2006

  Names and Nunavut

  Culture and Identity in the Inuit Homeland

  Alia, V.

  
  

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

• eBook available August 2022

  Risky Futures

  Climate, Geopolitics and Local Realities in the Uncertain Circumpolar North

  Ulturgasheva, O. & Bodenhorn, B. (eds)

  Examining the intersections between environmental conditions and geopolitical tensions, this book brings together a unique combination of authors who are local practitioners and international researchers, and considers the situations of environmental calamity and socio-economic risks faced by small populations.

  Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Sociology

• eBook available August 2021

  The Russian Cold

  Histories of Ice, Frost, and Snow

  Herzberg, J., Renner, A., & Schierle, I. (eds)

  Cold has long been a fixture of Russian identity both within and beyond the nation, even as the ongoing effects of climate change complicate its meaning and cultural salience. The Russian Cold assembles fascinating new contributions from a variety of scholarly traditions, offering new perspectives on how to understand this mainstay of Russian culture and history.

  Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Environmental Studies (General)

• November 2016

  Sustaining Russia's Arctic Cities

  Resource Politics, Migration, and Climate Change

  Orttung, R. (ed)

  Urban areas in Arctic Russia are experiencing unprecedented social and ecological change. This collection outlines the key challenges that city managers will face in navigating this shifting political, economic, social, and environmental terrain.

  Subjects: Urban Studies Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies

• eBook available January 2022

  An Urban Future for Sápmi?

  Indigenous Urbanization in the Nordic States and Russia

  Berg-Nordlie, M., Dankertsen, A, & Winsvold, M. (eds)

  Presenting the political and cultural processes that occur within the indigenous Sámi people of North Europe as they undergo urbanization, this book examines how they have retained their sense of history and culture in this new setting. The book is written by a team of researchers, mostly Sámi, from all the countries covered in the book.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Urban Studies Sociology

• eBook available June 2020

  Urban Sustainability in the Arctic

  Measuring Progress in Circumpolar Cities

  Orttung, R. W.

  Urban Sustainability in the Arctic advances our understanding of cities in the far north by applying elements of the international standard for urban sustainability (ISO 37120) to numerous Arctic cities. In delivering rich material about northern cities in Alaska, Canada, and Russia, the book examines how well the ISO 37120 measures sustainability and how well it applies in northern conditions.

  Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Applied Anthropology Urban Studies