Overview
- A transdisciplinary overview of reindeer herding through a methodological and interpretative approach
- Discusses the archaeology of reindeer domestication
- Provides a unique insight into change, continuity and memory-making in reindeer herding practices
Part of the book series: Arctic Encounters (AE)
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About this book
Reindeer have been an integral part of the lives of people in Northern Fennoscandia in prehistoric and historic times. Today, reindeer herding practices are changing fast due to climate change, land use pressures and new technologies. This book outlines recent advances in the archaeology of reindeer domestication and development of reindeer herding among the Sámi of Northern Fennoscandia, focusing especially on the identification and understanding of various reindeer herding tasks and practices through archaeological evidence and traditional knowledge of reindeer herders. Covering more than a thousand years of history of reindeer herding, the book explores how reindeer herding practices have always been dynamic and adapted to the changing social, economic and environmental pressures. While reindeer herding practices have changed, they have also retained memory and tradition. The continuity and adaptation of reindeer herding testifies of the resilience of reindeer herders and their animals, and the importance of their relationship in the changing Arctic. This book will be of interest to scholars interested in archaeology, anthropology, and history of the Arctic, as well as local communities and reindeer herders.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The History and Biology of Reindeer Domestication
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Human-Reindeer Landscapes
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Social and Cultural Entanglements
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Anna-Kaisa Salmi is an Associate Professor in Archaeology at the University of Oulu. Her research focusses on northern human-animal relationships and the archaeology of reindeer domestication. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Monographs of the Archaeological Society of Finland and co-editor of Archaeologies of Animal Movement – Animals on the Move (2021) and The Sound of Silence – Indigenous Perspectives on the Historical Archaeology of Colonialism (2019).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Domestication in Action
Book Subtitle: Past and Present Human-Reindeer Interaction in Northern Fennoscandia
Editors: Anna-Kaisa Salmi
Series Title: Arctic Encounters
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98643-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-98642-1Published: 25 May 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-98645-2Published: 26 May 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-98643-8Published: 24 May 2022
Series ISSN: 2730-6488
Series E-ISSN: 2730-6496
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 283
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Anthropology, Archaeology, Cultural Studies, Sociology of Culture, Cultural History, Human Geography