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Nomadic and Indigenous Spaces Productions and Cognitions
300 Pages
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Routledge
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Routledge
298 Pages
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Routledge
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This volume is devoted to aspects of space that have thus far been largely unexplored. How space is perceived and cognised has been discussed from different stances, but there are few analyses of nomadic approaches to spatiality. Nor is there a sufficient number of studies on indigenous interpretations of space, despite the importance of territory and place in definitions of indigeneity. At the... Read more
1: Nomadic and Indigenous Spaces; 2: A Place Off the Map; 3: From Nomadic to Mobile Space; 4: Where is Indigenous?; 5: The Nellim Forest Conflict in Finnish Lapland; 6: Sámi–State Relations and its Impact on Reindeer Herding across the Norwegian-Swedish Border; 7: Identity Categories and the Relationship between Cognition and the Production of Subjectivities; 8: Learning to Be Seated; 9: Shamanist Topography and Administrative Territories in Cisbaikalia, Southern Siberia; 10: From Invisible Float to the Eye for a Snowstorm; 11: Narratives of Adaptation and Innovation; 12: From Inuit Wayfinding to the Google World; 13: Epilogue
Biography
Dr Judith Miggelbrink and Dr Peter Koch are both researchers at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Germany, Dr Joachim Otto Habeck is a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany and Dr Nuccio Mazzullo is a researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Germany and Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Finland.
'Nomadic and Indigenous Spaces is an important collection which draws on the experience of both anthropologists and geographers to explore current ideas on land occupation and ownership in the traditional communities of the circumpolar North. ... this research is clearly vital in order to comprehend and assist in the rapid social transformation that is taking place in many Northern indigenous societies.' Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review
