In the last two decades there has been an increased awareness of the traditions and issues that link aboriginal people across the circumpolar North One of the key aspects of the lives of circumpolar peoples be they in Scandinavia Alaska Russia or Canada is their relationship to the wild animals that support them Although divided for most of the 20th Century by various national trading blocks and the Cold War aboriginal people in each region share common stories about the various capitalist and socialist states that claimed control over their lands and animals Now aboriginal peoples throughout the region are reclaiming their rights This volume is the first to give a well rounded portrait of wildlife management aboriginal rights and politics in the circumpolar north The book reveals unexpected continuities between socialist and capitalist ecological styles as well as addressing the problems facing a new era of cultural exchanges between aboriginal peoples in each region

Cultivating Arctic Landscapes by David G. Anderson (2004-01-01) PDF

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