1st Edition
Reimagining Human-Animal Relations in the Circumpolar North
1 Multispecies Northern Worlds: Reimagining Human-Animal Relations in the Circumpolar North
Erica Hill and Peter Whitridge
2 Sculpins, Bears, Seals, and Weasels: Late Dorset Miniature Carvings as Indicators of Individual Hunter/Prey Relationships
Genevieve M. LeMoine, John Darwent, Christyann M. Darwent, James Helmer and Hans Lange
3 Manufacturing Reality: Inuit Harvesting Depictions and the Domestication of Human-Animal Relations
Peter Whitridge
4 Whales, Whaling, and Relational Networks in the Western Arctic
Erica Hill
5 On the Long-Term Cultural Significance of the Traditional Yup’ik Walrus Hunt at Round Island (Qayassiq), Bristol Bay, Alaska
Sean P.A. Desjardins and Sarah M. Hazell
6 Fishy Relations? Human-Fish Engagement in the Norwegian Late Mesolithic (6300-3900 BCE)
Anja Mansrud
7 “Most Beautiful Favorite Reindeer”: Osteobiographies of Reindeer at a Sámi Offering Site in Northern Fennoscandia
Anna-Kaisa Salmi and Markus Fjellström
8 Living with Birds in Northwestern Siberia: Birds and Bird Imagery at Ust’-Polui
Tatiana Nomokonova, Robert J. Losey, Natalia V. Fedorova, and Andrei V. Gusev
9 Afterword: Storytelling Animals: Human-Nonhuman Relationships in the Arctic
Sean P.A. Desjardins and Peter D. Jordan
Biography
Peter Whitridge is Professor in the Department of Archaeology at Memorial University of Newfoundland. He has conducted fieldwork in Canada’s Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Nunatsiavut (Labrador), and has longstanding research interests in Inuit archaeology and human–animal relations.
Erica Hill is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alaska Southeast. She is the editor of Inupiaq Ethnohistory and co-editor of The Archaeology of Ancestors. Her research focuses on human–animal relations, animal geographies, and zooarchaeology in northern Alaska.
