Many northern nations have long-established policies for the documentation and protection of historical monuments, archaeological sites, old churches and cemeteries, and other historic sites on the landscape. Little is known, however, about the knowledge, memory, and historical value of the landscape in northern indigenous cultures, and even less has been done to build the legal and policy foundation to preserve this heritage for future generations. Northern Ethnographic Landscapes reviews current progress in this field across the circumpolar nations of Canada, the U.S. ( Alaska), northern Russia, Norway, and Iceland.
Contributors to this pioneering volume address the role of traditional subsistence activities, memory, rituals and sacred sites, place names, oral tradition, and personal stories that keep northern communities attached to their native lands.
Featuring over 120 photographs from across the Arctic, this volume will appeal to residents of the North, professionals in heritage and landscape preservation, and scholars and students in Native studies, archaeology, oral history, and cultural anthropology.
Igor Krupnik works at the Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. He studies the preservation of cultural heritage and the ecological knowledge of native peoples in the Arctic and North Pacific.
Rachel Mason is a cultural anthropologist with the National Park Service, Alaska Regional Office in Anchorage. She has worked extensively in the Kodiak Archipelago and the Aleutian Islands.
Tonia W. Horton is a landscape architect and ethnohistorian. She is currently professor of landscape architecture at Pennsylvania State University.
Order directly from the publisher.
Table of Contents
Contributors
List of Figures
Abbreviations
William W. Fitzhugh, "Forward"
Igor Krupnik, Rachel Mason, and Susan Buggey, "Introduction: Landscapes,
Perspectives, and Nations"
PART ONE. STATE POLICIES: PERSPECTIVES FROM FOUR ARTIC NATIONS
Susan Buggey, "An Approach to Aborignal Cultural Landscapes in Canada"
Rachel Mason, "Protecting Ethnographic Landscapes in Alaska: U.S. Policies and
Practices"
Tonia Woods Horton, "Writing Ethnographic History: Historic Preservation,
Cultural Landscapes and Traditional Cultural Practices"
Ingegerd Holand, "Managing the Sami Cultural Heritage in Norway: The Legal
Landscape"
Pavel M. Sul'gin, "Concepts and Practices in Ethnographic Landscape
Preservation: A Russian North Perspective"
PART TWO. PROTECTING THE "INVISIBLE": STORIES FROM THE ARTIC ZONE
Andrew Wiget and Olga Balalaeva, "'To Save the Yugan': The Saga of the Khanty
Cultural Conservation Program"
Galina P. Kharyuchi, "Nenets Sacred Sites as Ethnographic Landscape"
Donald G. Callaway, "Landscapes of Tradition, Landscapes of Resistance"
Igor Krupnik, "'The Whole Story of Our Land': Ethnographic Landscapes in Gambell,
St. Lawrence Island, Alaska"
Herbert Anungazuk, "Susan Wilhite Fair, in Tribute"
Susan W. Fair, "Names of Places, Other Times: Remebering and Documenting Lands
and Landscapes near Shishmaref, Alaska"
Elisabeth I. Ward and Arthur Bjorgvin Bollason, "Medieval Tales, Modern
Tourists: Exploring the Njal's Saga Landscape of South Iceland"
Anita Maurstad, "Cultural Seascapes: Preserving Local Fishermen's Knowledge in
Northern Norway"
PART THREE. REGIONAL APPROACHES TO DOCUMENTATION AND PROTECTION
Thomas D. Andrews, "'The Land is like a Book': Cultural Landscape Management in
the Northwest Territories, Canada"
Tonia Woods Horton, "Documenting Ethnographic Landscapes in Alaska's National
Parks"
Natalia V. Fedorova, "Cultural Heritage in Yamal, Siberia: Policies and
Challenges in Landscape Preservation"
Torvald Falch and Marianne Skandfer, "Sami Cultural Heritage in Norway: Between
Politics of Local Knowledge and the Power of the State"
PART FOUR. COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES
Claire Smithe and Heather Burke, "Joining the Dots: Managing the Land- and
Seascapes of Indigenous Australia"
Ellen Lee, "Epilogue. Nations, Perspectives, and Nations: What Does it All
Means?"
Index
Illustration Credits
8.5 x 11, xvi + 416
pages, 126 b & w photos and illustrations, bibliography
Paper: $22.00, ISBN:
0-9673429-7-X