Arctic Heritage: Commodification, Identity, and Revitilisation in the Anthropocene

北极遗产：人类世的商品化、身份和复兴

• 批准号: AH/Y000161/1
• 负责人: David Anderson
• 金额: $ 21.76万
• 依托单位: University of Aberdeen
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FY000161%2F1
• 关键词: Arctic; Heritage; Commodification; Identity; Revitilisation

This is a project to explore the commodity chains of three iconic heritage artefacts in the Arctic: reindeer antler, the conical tent, and mammoth and walrus ivory. The project will trace the oral histories and new market and social entanglements of these artefacts across several sites in Sápmi, Canada, and Greenland, linking them to historical pastoralist and hunting lifeways and their transformation over time. In recent years, each artefact has taken a new form within the heritage and tourism industries: 1) reindeer antler as Traditional Chinese Medicine; 2) the conical tent as a fixed tourism dwelling; 3) and ivory as souvenir carvings. They thus tell a wider story of Arctic heritage and the relationship between indigenous producers, consumers, and the market. Our objectives are to research the transformation of the artefacts into heritage objects and their movement across national and international commodity chains. We will follow their material and symbolic journeys through historical and emergent networks of harvesting, production, commercialisation, and consumption. We will use ethnographic fieldwork, in-depth interviews, and zooarchaeological analysis to investigate ancient and contemporary trade. We hypothesise a gap between the commercialisation of the artefacts and their non-utilitarian value in terms of skills, communities of practice, and experience-based knowledge. We anticipate this to feed into debates about tradition, ecological sustainability, and cultural loss, as well as renewed calls for cultural protection, revitalisation, and legislation. The project will thus tackle questions surrounding the ethics of heritage and ethnic tourism, the viability and sustainability of craft production, so-called 'heritage-isation' of indigenous culture, and the cultural politics of heritage in the context of the Arctic. We will publish several works including interdisciplinary publications, an edited volume, and organise three museum exhibitions.

这是一个探索北极三种标志性遗产文物商品链的项目：驯鹿鹿角、圆锥形帐篷以及猛犸象和海象象牙。该项目将追溯这些文物在加拿大S和格陵兰的几个地点的口述历史以及新的市场和社会纠葛，将它们与历史上的牧民和狩猎生活方式以及它们随着时间的变化联系起来。近年来，每件文物在遗产和旅游业中都有了新的形式：1)鹿角作为传统中药；2)锥形帐篷作为固定的旅游民居；3)象牙作为纪念品雕刻。因此，它们讲述了关于北极遗产以及土著生产者、消费者和市场之间关系的更广泛的故事。我们的目标是研究将文物转化为遗产及其在国家和国际商品链中的流动。我们将跟踪他们的物质和象征之旅，通过历史和新兴的收获、生产、商业化和消费网络。我们将使用人种学田野调查、深度访谈和动物考古分析来调查古代和当代的贸易。我们假设艺术品的商业化与它们在技能、实践社区和基于经验的知识方面的非功利价值之间存在差距。我们预计，这将成为关于传统、生态可持续性和文化丧失的辩论，并再次呼吁文化保护、复兴和立法。因此，该项目将解决有关遗产和民族旅游的伦理、手工艺品生产的可行性和可持续性、所谓的土著文化的“遗产化”以及北极地区遗产的文化政治等问题。我们将出版几部作品，包括跨学科出版物，编辑卷，并组织三个博物馆展览。

项目成果

Sentient Entanglements and Ruptures in the Americas: Human-Animal Relations in the Amazon, Andes, and Arctic

美洲的情感纠葛与破裂：亚马逊、安第斯山脉和北极地区的人与动物关系

• DOI: 10.1163/9789004679450_009
• 发表时间: 2024
• 作者: Anderson D

Entangled with Antlers on the Iamal Peninsula of Arctic Siberia

北极西伯利亚伊马尔半岛上的鹿角纠缠

• DOI: 10.2993/0278-0771-42.1.3
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Journal of Ethnobiology
• 影响因子: 2.9
• 作者: Nomokonova T