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Sacred Places in the Arctic and Beyond: Cultural and Existential Transitions

by Francis Joy , Patrick Dillon , Dawid Bunikowski
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781032973739
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 304
  • Original Price: GBP 171.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: 1
  • Item Weight: 626 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Anthropology / Cultural & Social

Sacred Places in the Arctic and Beyond brings together indigenous and nonindigenous scholars, rightsholders, and practitioners to explore the status and management of sacred places, which are important as both tangible and intangible cultural heritage. It acknowledges the critical functions and roles that sacred places play in connection with local people, traditions, beliefs, and practices, as identity markers, places of cultural transmission and memory, and locations that support ecosystems and biodiversity.

An introductory chapter presents an organising framework for this book based in cultural ecology and law. Four chapters present case studies from the Arctic, and four more widen the geographical coverage to North America, South America, Africa, and Europe, each describing the cultural contexts and Indigenous cosmologies of sacred places in their respective regions. The studies raise issues of access to sacred places, destruction and disruption caused by extractive industries and tourism, and implications of these challenges for their management. This book concludes with three chapters that call for policy reappraisals. They address the problem of how Western-orientated discourses and organisational structures frame legislation about, and management of, sacred places in ways which are seldom compatible with how Indigenous people understand these places and engage with them. Major themes from the case studies are integrated with ideas from cultural ecology and legal pluralism into a framework to inform future policy.

Francis Joy is a postdoctoral researcher in the Arctic Anthropology Research Team at the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland in Rovaniemi, Finland. His expertise is in cultural heritage.

Patrick Dillon is Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Exeter, UK, and for ten years was Professor in the Philosophical Faculty at the University of Eastern Finland. His expertise is in cultural ecology.

Dawid Bunikowski is Professor at the State University of Applied Sciences in Wloclawek, Poland, and Visiting Scholar at the University of Eastern Finland School of Theology. His expertise is in law.

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