Reimagining Human-Animal Relations in the Circumpolar North

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.

• 1 Multispecies Northern Worlds: Reimagining Human–Animal Relations in the Circumpolar NorthErica Hill and Peter Whitridge2 Weasels, Seals, Bears, and Sculpins: Late Dorset Miniature Carvings as Indicators of Individual Hunter–Prey RelationshipsGenevieve LeMoine, John Darwent, Christyann Darwent, James Helmer, and Hans Lange3 Manufacturing Reality: Inuit Harvesting Depictions and the Domestication of Human–Animal RelationsPeter Whitridge4 Whales, Whaling, and Relational Networks in the Western ArcticErica Hill5 On the Long-Term Cultural Significance of the Traditional Yup’ik Walrus Hunt at Round Island (Qayassiq), Bristol Bay, AlaskaSean P.A. Desjardins and Sarah M. Hazell6 Fishy Relations? Human–Fish Engagement in the Norwegian Late Mesolithic (6300–3900 BCE)Anja Mansrud7 “Most Beautiful Favorite Reindeer”: Osteobiographies of Reindeer at a Sámi Offering Site in Northern FennoscandiaAnna-Kaisa Salmi and Markus Fjellström8 Living with Birds in Northwestern Siberia: Birds and Bird Imagery at Ust’-Polui Tatiana Nomokonova, Robert J. Losey, Natalia V. Fedorova, and Andrei V. Gusev9 Afterword: Storytelling Animals: Human–Nonhuman Relationships in the ArcticSean P.A. Desjardins and Peter Jordan