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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Reindeer herding"”.
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Komi reindeer herding: mobility and land use in a changing natural and social environment
… based research - carried out among Komi nomadic reindeer herders of the Russian far north - examines how Komi pastoral nomads choose a particular time, route and length of migration. This was explored by using anthropological as well as ecological methods to (i) identify how social and political …
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THE CHANGING ROLE OF SÁMI WOMEN IN REINDEER HERDING COMMUNITIES IN NORTHERN NORWAY AND THE 1970-1980s WOMEN’S RESISTANCE AND REDEFINITION MOVEMENT
… social and economic inequalities. The 1978 Reindeer Herding Act was dubbed a gender neutral policy; however, because of ambiguities and omissions in the construction of the act, it only continued to perpetuate Sámi women’s invisibility as participants in an occupation that was traditionally …
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THE CHANGING ROLE OF SÁMI WOMEN IN REINDEER HERDING COMMUNITIES IN NORTHERN NORWAY AND THE 1970-1980s WOMEN’S RESISTANCE AND REDEFINITION MOVEMENT
… social and economic inequalities. The 1978 Reindeer Herding Act was dubbed a gender neutral policy; however, because of ambiguities and omissions in the construction of the act, it only continued to perpetuate Sámi women’s invisibility as participants in an occupation that was traditionally …
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What it means to be a herdsman: the practice and image of reindeer husbandry among the Komi of Northern Russia
… the social, economic and political aspects of reindeer husbandry among the Komi, a people living in the north of European Russia. Taking agency as an initial concept, successive chapters examine how agency can be understood in various domains: the reindeer-herding unit and enterprise, the …
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Making nature modern: economic transformation and the environment in the Soviet north
… many Soviet planners. The campaigns to transform reindeer herding into a productive socialist industry and to protect wild caribou reveal how diverse ways of knowing nature influenced the behavior of elite and marginal actors. An investigation into the development of the Kola nickel industry …
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The corral and the slaughterhouse: knowledge, tradition and the modernization of indigenous reindeer slaughtering practice in the Norwegian Arctic
… to the ethnography of contemporary indigenous reindeer pastoralism in Norway: specifically, to the study of the neglected fields of reindeer killing and slaughtering practice. Its central contention is that in recent decades, the proliferation of human powers vested in the conduct of reindeer …
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Women's Arctic Fieldwork, 1900-1950: Five psychobiographical case studies
… an Swedish-American anthropologist who studied reindeer-herding peoples; Joan Newhouse, a British woman who wrote an auto-ethnography of a year spent among the Sami in Norway; Phyllis Wager who, after marrying the geologist Lawrence Wager, became the first British woman to overwinter in …
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Remote Sensing Methods for Environmental Monitoring of Human Impact on sub-Arctic Ecosystems in Europe
… identifies industrial atmospheric pollution, reindeer herding, forest logging, forest fires and infrastructure development as the primary types of human impact close to the treeline. For each type characteristic hotspots are identified and human impact is analysed in the context of physical …
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Making Indigenous Futures: Land, Memory, and 'Silent Knowledge' in a Skolt Sámi Community
… most studies in the region still focus on the reindeer herding and fishing commonly associated with Sámi populations, there is actually resurgence of Skolt craft (boats, tools, dress), as well as collection and processing of wild foods, which form the core of a vibrant cultural revival. Through …