Indigenous Arctic Infrastructures

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-33909-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Arctic Worlds

This book focuses on the concept of unwritten Indigenous Arctic infrastructures. It takes inspiration from activists in the field of Indigenous studies, who argue that ‘critical’ Indigenous infrastructures are often not railways, pipelines or data cables, but instead sacred places and sustainable craftsmanship. The authors in this collection challenge the standard definition of cultural heritage and of industrial infrastructure. They encourage the critical re-thinking of roads and other forms of industrial infrastructure which can be re-tooled to support emplaced practice. Through learning from Northern and Arctic Indigenous craftspeople on how small-scale but evocative objects can define identity and landscapes, the contributors show how conical tents, trails, spoken stories, and miniature models break out of the boundaries of their metadata to generate and re-generate relationships. The volume considers the changing role of museums and protected areas in providing examples of embedded and embodied cultural practice, and builds on the craft of ‘unwriting’ objects of cultural heritage by comparing embodied and relational practice to formal classifications. It will be of interest to those working in anthropology, museum and heritage studies, archaeology and geography, as well as Indigenous studies, Northern and Arctic studies.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Anderson, David G.

Vider, Jaanika

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Indigenous Arctic Infrastructures 2. The Agency of Sámi dwellings: Reclaiming the Goahte as an epistemology and resilient heritage 3. Rethinking museum structure and terminology in Swedish Sábme 4. Unwriting by return: reassembling Jáhkoš-Lásse’s collection in Guovdageaidnu 5. Ancestral spirits and iron pans: How Nawken navigate contested landscapes through spoken stories and objects of ‘Gypsy-ness’ 6. Indigenous Infrastructures and Modes of Emplacement 7. Life Happens on the Trails. Maintaining Dene Trails in the Canadian Subarctic 8. At home at the Manisha Nui Gathering 9. Portent Inscriptions: Infrastructures of Hope and Fear  Index.

Über Autor(innen)

David G. Anderson is Professor and Chair in the Anthropology of the North at the University of Aberdeen, UK.

Jaanika Vider is a Lecturer in Anthropology at Tallinn University, Estonia.