Arctic Domus

16/12/2021

Congratulations to Robert Losey for his excellent article exploring the open-endness and unfinished nature of domestication - and for remembering the CAS project and Arctic Domus.

Domestication is often portrayed as a long-past event, at times even in archaeological literature. The term domestication is also now applied to other processes...

17/05/2021

One of our Arctic Domus team members wrote a blog for The British Museum's Citi exhibition -Arctic: culture and climate.

‘Dogs are man’s best friend’, King Frederick of Prussia allegedly said in the 18th century. In the Arctic however, dogs are much more than that – they can be guardians, means of transport, ceremonial sacrifices, hunting companions and in some places even providers of fur for clothing. Kiliii...

13/05/2020

A wonderful new article by members of Arctic Domus

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10816-020-09455-w

10/10/2019

NEW RESEARCH PAPER

Tamara Ranspot, our Arctic Domus student, has published a paper based on her PhD dissertation and research she conducted while in Aberdeen. The paper was published in a Special Issue of The Journal of Ethnobiology. Congratulations, Tamara! https://ethnobiology.org/publications/journal-of-ethnobiology/current

The Relational Nature of Song in Musical Human-Animal Interactions in Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in Traditional Territory, Yukon
Tamara Ranspot
KEYWORDS: Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in, human-animal interactions, song, relationality, environmental change

02/08/2019

A new long-awaited publication from our Arctic Domus team

Read the latest articles of Journal of Anthropological Archaeology at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature

02/08/2019

A new long-awaited publication from our Arctic Domus team

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2019.101079

10/07/2019

https://www.routledge.com/Reading-Life-with-Gwichin-An-Educational-Approach/Loovers/p/book/9781138616691?fbclid=IwAR2xb8AVRqZZFEOcvoWnUQwEen0dDaW-B8QbGL1Kq30HGBraqGUfhdKgb1o

This book is based upon more than two years of ethnographic fieldwork and personal experiences with the Teetł’it Gwich’in community in northern Canada. The author provides insight into Gwich’in understandings of life as well as into…

27/06/2019

Conference on dog domestication in Italy
http://annali.unife.it/museologia/issue/viewIssue/252/67