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This volume provides fresh insight into northern human-animal relations and illustrates the breadth and practical utility of archaeological human-animal studies.
List of contents
1 Multispecies Northern Worlds: Reimagining Human
-Animal Relations in the Circumpolar North
Erica Hill and Peter Whitridge2 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 Lange3 Manufacturing Reality: Inuit Harvesting Depictions and the Domestication of Human-Animal Relations
Peter Whitridge4 Whales, Whaling, and Relational Networks in the Western Arctic
Erica Hill5 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. Hazell6 Fishy Relations? Human-Fish Engagement in the Norwegian Late Mesolithic (6300-3900 BCE)
Anja Mansrud7 "Most Beautiful Favorite Reindeer": Osteobiographies of Reindeer at a Sámi Offering Site in Northern Fennoscandia
Anna-Kaisa Salmi and Markus Fjellström8 Living with Birds in Northwestern Siberia: Birds and Bird Imagery at Ust'-Polui
Tatiana Nomokonova, Robert J. Losey, Natalia V. Fedorova, and Andrei V. Gusev9 Afterword: Storytelling Animals: Human-Nonhuman Relationships in the Arctic
Sean P.A. Desjardins and Peter Jordan
About the author
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.
