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ANTH 3671

Geography of the Arctic Region

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Winter 2023

Topics

  • Introduction, definition, NU BRING
  • ULUs
  • Example Regional comparison and Rowley-Conwy
  • gazetteer of NWT, YK
  • Review gaz for Canada and learn Arctic Human Development Report
  • present to class
  • AHDR
  • Report to create an interesting 10 min presentation on
  • that topic, comparing different regions -you are
  • encouraged to get additional information to allow you
  • better comparisons and visual aids
  • publication was
  • Present ADHR to class
  • Sea Mammal hunting
  • Cultural Adaptations to the Arctic II Vitebsky and Alekseyev
  • Reindeer herding
  • Regional Case Study: Greenland I McGovern Cows Harp Seals and Church bells
  • Regional Case Study: Greenland II Crate and Nuttall
  • History
  • Presentations Write down 1 question you have for each classmate’s
  • presentation. Submit your questions for participation
  • marks
  • Presentations
  • Regional Case Study: Russia II
  • Regional Case Study: Russia III
Winter 2020

Topics

  • Receive Syllabus Assignments and Readings
  • The Arctic and Its Regions Pielou, “Sky” from A Naturalist’s Guide to the Arctic
  • Regional comparison Bone, “The Physical Base”
  • Physical Geography
  • Historical Geography of the Bone, “The Historical Background”
  • Canadian Arctic
  • Cultural Adaptations to the Arctic I
  • Movie Day! “Vanishing Point”
  • Cultural Adaptations to the Arctic II Rowley-Conwy, “Human Occupation of the Arctic”
  • Regional Case Study: Greenland 1
  • Thule and Norse Extinction in Norse Greenland”
  • Regional Case Study: Greenland 2
  • Møller, “You Need to be Double Cultured to Function Here”
  • Regional Case Study: Russia 1
  • Crate and Nuttall, “The Russian North in Circumpolar Context”
  • History
  • Regional Case Study: Russia 2
  • Dallmann et al., “Reindeer Herders in the Timan Pechora Oil
  • Indigenous Peoples Province of Northwest Russia”
  • Presentations
  • Historical perspective of the Arctic
  • Movie day! “Nanook of the North”
  • 20th Century Canadian Arctic Bone, “Aboriginal Economy and Society”
  • Arctic Identities Légaré, “Nunavut: the Construction of a Regional Collective Identity
  • in the Canadian Arctic”
Sources