Arctic Archives
Title | Arctic Archives PDF eBook |
Author | Susi K. Frank |
Publisher | transcript Verlag |
Total Pages | 319 |
Release | 2019-10-31 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 3839446562 |
This pioneering volume explores the Arctic as an important and highly endangered archive of knowledge about natural as well as human history of the anthropocene. Focusing on the Arctic as an archive means to investigate it not only as a place of human history and memory - of Arctic exploring, ›conquering‹ and colonizing -, but to take into account also the specific environmental conditions of the circumpolar region: ice and permafrost. These have allowed a huge natural archive to emerge, offering rich sources for natural scientists and historians alike. Examining the debate on the notion of (›natural‹) archive, the cultural semantics and historicity of the meaning of concepts like ›warm‹, ›cold‹, ›freezing‹ and ›melting‹ as well as various works of literature, art and science on Arctic topics, this volume brings together literary scholars, historians of knowledge and philosophy, art historians, media theorists and archivologists.
The Friendly Arctic
Title | The Friendly Arctic PDF eBook |
Author | Vilhjalmur Stefansson |
Publisher | Рипол Классик |
Total Pages | 889 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 587903514X |
Library and Information Sciences in Arctic and Northern Studies
Title | Library and Information Sciences in Arctic and Northern Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Spencer Acadia |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Total Pages | 380 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 3031547152 |
Arctic Researches, and Life Among the Esquimaux
Title | Arctic Researches, and Life Among the Esquimaux PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Francis Hall |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 624 |
Release | 1865 |
Genre | Arctic regions |
ISBN |
Library and Information Studies for Arctic Social Sciences and Humanities
Title | Library and Information Studies for Arctic Social Sciences and Humanities PDF eBook |
Author | Spencer Acadia |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 345 |
Release | 2020-11-26 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0429997906 |
Library and Information Studies for Arctic Social Sciences and Humanities serves as a key interdisciplinary title that links the social sciences and humanities with current issues, trends, and projects in library, archival, and information sciences within shared Arctic frameworks and geographies. Including contributions from professionals and academics working across and on the Arctic, the book presents recent research, theoretical inquiry, and applied professional endeavours at academic and public libraries, as well as archives, museums, government institutions, and other organisations. Focusing on efforts that further Arctic knowledge and research, papers present local, regional, and institutional case studies to conceptually and empirically describe real-life research in which the authors are engaged. Topics covered include the complexities of developing and managing multilingual resources; working in geographically isolated areas; curating combinations of local, regional, national, and international content collections; and understanding historical and contemporary colonial-industrial influences in indigenous knowledge. Library and Information Studies for Arctic Social Sciences and Humanities will be essential reading for academics, researchers, and students working the fields of library, archival, and information or data science, as well as those working in the humanities and social sciences more generally. It should also be of great interest to librarians, archivists, curators, and information or data professionals around the globe.
Across Arctic America
Title | Across Arctic America PDF eBook |
Author | Knud Rasmussen |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 546 |
Release | 1927 |
Genre | Arctic peoples |
ISBN |
Narrative of the Fifth Thule expedition.
Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos
Title | Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos PDF eBook |
Author | Lilya Kaganovsky |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | 385 |
Release | 2019-02-18 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0253040310 |
Beginning with Robert Flaherty’s Nanook of the North (1922), the majority of films that have been made in, about, and by filmmakers from the Arctic region have been documentary cinema. Focused on a hostile environment that few people visit, these documentaries have heavily shaped ideas about the contemporary global Far North. In Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos, contributors from a variety of scholarly and artistic backgrounds come together to provide a comprehensive study of Arctic documentary cinemas from a transnational perspective. This book offers a thorough analysis of the concept of the Arctic as it is represented in documentary filmmaking, while challenging the notion of "The Arctic" as a homogenous entity that obscures the environmental, historical, geographic, political, and cultural differences that characterize the region. By examining how the Arctic is imagined, understood, and appropriated in documentary work, the contributors argue that such films are key in contextualizing environmental, indigenous, political, cultural, sociological, and ethnographic understandings of the Arctic, from early cinema to the present. Understanding the role of these films becomes all the more urgent in the present day, as conversations around resource extraction, climate change, and sovereignty take center stage in the Arctic’s representation.