Krause, Franz 
ORCID: 0000-0003-0914-7060
(2022).
Inhabiting a transforming delta Volatility and improvisation in the Canadian Arctic.
Am. Ethnol., 49 (1).
S. 7 - 20.
HOBOKEN:
WILEY.
ISSN 1548-1425
Abstract
Gwich'in and Inuvialuit inhabitants of the Mackenzie Delta, in Canada's Northwest Territories, have witnessed an eventful history in relation to colonialism and environmental transformation. Their current lives are characterized by mobility, mixing, and melting as they negotiate new and old livelihoods, continuity in traditions, and thawing landscapes. Approaching these lives in terms of volatility opens up an experience-near understanding of people's relations with perpetual, uncertain transformations. Differently situated delta inhabitants have different ways of dealing with these uncertain dynamics, but all are characterized by an improvisation that carries forth reputable activities and attitudes by new means. Dispositions like curiosity, playfulness, and risk-taking must not be seen as lacking resolve to confront transformations, but should be appreciated as skills for inhabiting a volatile world. [volatility, improvisation, Gwich'in, Inuvialuit, Arctic]
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-660581 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1111/amet.13051 | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Am. Ethnol. | ||||||||
| Volume: | 49 | ||||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | S. 7 - 20 | ||||||||
| Date: | 2022 | ||||||||
| Publisher: | WILEY | ||||||||
| Place of Publication: | HOBOKEN | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1548-1425 | ||||||||
| Language: | English | ||||||||
| Faculty: | Unspecified | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Unspecified | ||||||||
| Subjects: | no entry | ||||||||
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| URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/66058 |
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