Description |
320 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 26 cm |
Note |
"The Citi Exhibition" at head of title. |
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"This publication accompanies the Citi Exhibition 'Arctic: culture and climate' at the British Museum"--Title page verso. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Summary |
"Arctic: culture and climate explores the history of the Circumpolar North and its peoples through the lens of climate change and weather, drawing on a wealth of objects, artworks, and voices--from past and present--to show how Arctic Peoples and their cultural traditions have continued to thrive amid both social and environmental change"--Publisher website. |
Contents |
Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Climate change in the Arctic -- The Arctic experience of climate change -- Atigiit, Silapaat -- Alaskan Inuit food sovereignty: from the perspective of a hunting culture -- ch. 2 Seasonal lives -- Relations with animals in the Circumpolar North -- Sakha summer festival -- Reindeer herders and mobility -- ch. 3 Living with weather -- Harnessing weather in hunting livelihoods -- Making my amautis -- Working with nalua: the most delicate of sealskin -- ch. 4 Arctic ancestors -- The earliest Arctic settlers -- 9,000 years ago in the Siberian Arctic: Zhokhov Island -- Earliest-known people in the North American Arctic -- Focusing on the coast -- The first Arctic culture in North America -- The north of western Siberia in the Iron Age: trade, imports, new ideas -- The Punuk/Birnirk interregnum of the 9th to 11th centuries -- ch. 5 A resilient north -- Rapid change -- Russian colonialism -- Southern ambitions -- Trade in the Bering Strait -- Changing state and exploration of the Russian Arctic: expanding horizons of ethnographic knowledge -- The `shaman's mask' -- Governing the Arctic -- The art of resilience -- Living with ice in a changing world. |
Subject |
Human ecology -- Arctic regions -- Exhibitions.
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Arctic peoples -- Social life and customs -- Exhibitions.
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Climatic changes -- Arctic regions -- Exhibitions.
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Arctic regions -- Climate -- Exhibitions.
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Arctic regions -- Civilization -- Exhibitions.
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Arctic regions -- Environmental conditions -- Exhibitions.
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Arctic peoples -- Social life and customs.
(OCoLC)fst00814150
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Civilization. (OCoLC)fst00862898
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Climatic changes. (OCoLC)fst00864229
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Climatology. (OCoLC)fst00864281
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Ecology. (OCoLC)fst00901476
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Human ecology. (OCoLC)fst00962941
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Arctic Regions. (OCoLC)fst01240227
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Genre/Form |
Exhibition catalogs. (OCoLC)fst01424028
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Added Author |
Lincoln, Amber, editor.
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Cooper, Jago, editor.
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Laurens Loovers, Jan Peter, editor.
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British Museum, host institution.
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Added Title |
Citi Exhibition : Arctic culture and climate |
ISBN |
9780500480663 (hardback) |
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0500480664 (hardback) |
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