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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.
A new view of Sweden's relations with the world beyond its borders,
from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. Sweden's connections
to and relationships with the European and wider world is a field
of study attracting considerable scholarly attention. The essays
here, from archaeologists and historians, offer a new perspective
on early modern Sweden as deeply affected by the increasing
internationality of the 16th-18th centuries. Set in the
socio-political context of an expanding and changing kingdom, they
deal with the character and impact of a wide range of cultural
encounters - at home, in the colonies and during overseas travel.
They consider how new fashions, commodities and ideologies were
perceived and appropriated, and they discuss how these encounters
shaped the discourses of the familiar and the foreign - from
curiosity, acceptance and appreciation, to prejudice, rejection and
conflict. In taking a broad and interdisciplinary approach, and by
departing from traditional themes of political history, the volume
as a whole offers a different view of the kingdom, its people, and
its involvement with the outside world. MAGDALENA NAUM is an
Associate Professor at the Department of Archaeology and Heritage
Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark; FREDRIK EKENGREN is an
Associate Professor in Archaeology at the Department of Archaeology
and Ancient History, Lund University, Sweden. Contributors: Per
Cornell, Christina Dalhede, Lu Ann De Cunzo, Magnus Elfwendahl,
Matti Enbuske, Adam Grimshaw, Jens Heimdahl, Lisa Hellman, Kimmo
Katajala, Jonas M. Nordin, Risto Nurmi, Kenneth Nyberg, Carl-Goesta
Ojala, Joachim OEstlund, Claes B. Pettersson, Christina Rosen,
Anna-Kaisa Salmi, Goeran Tagesson, Annemari Tranberg,
Colonial encounters between indigenous peoples and European state
powers are overarching themes in the historical archaeology of the
modern era, and postcolonial historical archaeology has repeatedly
emphasized the complex two-way nature of colonial encounters. This
volume examines common trajectories in indigenous colonial
histories, and explores new ways to understand cultural contact,
hybridization and power relations between indigenous peoples and
colonial powers from the indigenous point of view. By bringing
together a wide geographical range and combining multiple sources
such as oral histories, historical records, and contemporary
discourses with archaeological data, the volume finds new
multivocal interpretations of colonial histories.
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 Sami 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.
Colonial encounters between indigenous peoples and European state
powers are overarching themes in the historical archaeology of the
modern era, and postcolonial historical archaeology has repeatedly
emphasized the complex two-way nature of colonial encounters. This
volume examines common trajectories in indigenous colonial
histories, and explores new ways to understand cultural contact,
hybridization and power relations between indigenous peoples and
colonial powers from the indigenous point of view. By bringing
together a wide geographical range and combining multiple sources
such as oral histories, historical records, and contemporary
discourses with archaeological data, the volume finds new
multivocal interpretations of colonial histories.
This book presents the state-of-the art in the analysis of animal
movements in the past and its implications for human societies. It
also addresses the importance of animal activity and mobility for
understanding past human societies and past human-animal
relationships through cases studies from different periods and
areas. It is the first book to focus on the archaeology of animal
movement on different scales - from fine-tuned muscle movements of
working animals to feeding behavior and to long-distance movements
across landscapes and regions.With the recent development of
fine-tuned methodologies such as stable isotope analysis and
physical activity assessment, the potential to understand how
animals moved about in the past has increased substantially. While
the chapters in the volume utilize a wide range of archaeological
methods, they are all united by an emphasis on understanding animal
activity and mobility patterns as something that has a major impact
on human societies and human-animal relationships. Chapters in this
volume show that animal activity patterns provide information on
multiple aspects of human-animal relationships, including analysis
of animal management practices, transhumance, global and regional
trade networks, and animal domestication. This volume is of
interest to scholars working in zooarchaeology and early human
societies.
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