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The findings presented in this volume represent a concerted effort
to develop a more inclusive form of reindeer management for
northernmost Europe. Our guiding principle has been to foster a new
paradigm of participatory research. We wish to move beyond the
historical reliance on western approaches to basic and applied
science. These have been concerned prim- ily with interactions
between herded animals and the various components of their
biophysical environment, e. g., plants, insects, predators,
climate, and others. In our view, sociocultural and economic
drivers, along with herders' experience-based knowledge, gain equal
currency in the effort to understand how management may mitigate
against the negative aspects of the challenges modern herding
faces, while also exploring concepts of sustainability from
different perspectives (see also Jernsletten and Klokov 2002;
Kankaanpaa et al. 2002; Ulvevadet and Klokov 2004). This broadening
of the pool of disciplines and local, national, and int- national
stakeholders in policy-relevant research invariably complicates v-
tually all aspects of the research process. Multidisciplinary or,
in our sense, transdisciplinary approaches also require
extraordinary effort from all p- ticipants if they are to succeed.
As such, those approaches should not be undertaken lightly, nor
without personnel who possess appropriate expe- ence in cooperating
with those of different disciplines and, preferably, also with
relevant practitioners and public social and administrative
institutions. In such settings the potential for misunderstandings
is quite high."
The findings presented in this volume represent a concerted effort
to develop a more inclusive form of reindeer management for
northernmost Europe. Our guiding principle has been to foster a new
paradigm of participatory research. We wish to move beyond the
historical reliance on western approaches to basic and applied
science. These have been concerned prim- ily with interactions
between herded animals and the various components of their
biophysical environment, e. g. , plants, insects, predators,
climate, and others. In our view,sociocultural and economic
drivers,along with herders' experience-based knowledge,gain equal
currency in the effort to understand how management may mitigate
against the negative aspects of the challenges modern herding
faces, while also exploring concepts of sustainability from
different perspectives (see also Jernsletten and Klokov 2002;
Kankaanpaa et al. 2002; Ulvevadet and Klokov 2004). This broadening
of the pool of disciplines and local,national,and int- national
stakeholders in policy-relevant research invariably complicates v-
tually all aspects of the research process. Multidisciplinary or,
in our sense, transdisciplinary approaches also require
extraordinary effort from all p- ticipants if they are to succeed.
As such, those approaches should not be undertaken lightly, nor
without personnel who possess appropriate expe- ence in cooperating
with those of different disciplines and, preferably, also with
relevant practitioners and public social and administrative
institutions. In such settings the potential for misunderstandings
is quite high.
Told from an ordinary man's perspective, these are the journal and
letters of Wilhelm Weike as he accompanied Franz Boas--the father
of modern anthropology--on his journey to the arctic from 1883 to
1884. This extraordinary document of early arctic history provides
a plain, direct view of the Inuit and the whalers in their arctic
environment at the end of the 19th century. With invaluable
contextual and complementary information, this book contributes key
insights during the recent wave of scientific assessment of Franz
Boas's legacy in all social sciences.
In the summer of 1883, Franz Boas, widely regarded as one of the
fathers of Inuit anthropology, sailed from Germany to Baffin Island
to spend a year among the Inuit of Cumberland Sound. This was his
introduction to the Arctic and to anthropological fieldwork. This
book presents, for the first time, his letters and journal entries
from the year that he spent among the Inuit, providing not only an
insightful background to his numerous scientific articles about
Inuit culture, but a comprehensive and engaging narrative as well.
Using a Scottish whaling station as his base, Boas travelled widely
with the Inuit, learning their language, living in their tents and
snow houses, sharing their food, and experiencing their joys and
sorrows. At the same time he was taking detailed notes and
surveying and mapping the landscape and coastline. Ludger M
ller-Wille has transcribed his journals and his letters to his
parents and fianc and woven these texts into a sequential
narrative. The result is a fascinating study of one of the earliest
and most successful examples of participatory observation among the
Inuit. Originally published in German in 1994, the text has been
translated into English by William Barr, who has also published
translations of other important works on the history of the Arctic.
Illustrated with some of Boas's own photos and with maps of his
field area, Franz Boas among the Inuit of Baffin Island, 1883-1884
is a valuable addition to the historical and anthropological
literature on southern Baffin Island.
Papers of the Symposium on Unexpected Consequences of Economic
Change in Circumpolar Regions at the 34th Annual Meeting of the
Society for Applied Anthropology in Amsterdam, March 21 to 22,
1975.
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