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Camps of the tundra : politics through reindeer among Saami pastoralists

Robert Paine

Editore: Oslo : Novus Press, 2009

ISBN 10: 8270994863 ISBN 13: 9788270994861

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Hardcover. Condizione: New. XIII, 149 p. ill., : 29 cm. Camps of the Tundra, as with its precursor Herds of the Tundra, is based on Paine's fieldwork in the early sixties (before the arrival of the cellphone) with Saami reindeer pastoralists from Kautokeino in northernmost Norway; perhaps a couple of hundred families. Each spring, along with thousands of their reindeer, they leave the tundra hinterland on migration to the coast, and return in the fall. The relation between the two books is the "journey" from ecological circumstances to sociological implications. The latter are embedded in the management and ownership of the reindeer; and the crucial point here is that whereas herding is a group responsibility, animals within a herd are individually owned and husbanded. It is in the camps whose com-posi-tions change with the seasons that Paine finds politics. He stresses how the circumstances of pastoral life do not easily lend themselves to exclusive relationships (marriage aside); instead, more often than not, they present alternatives of equivalent value; hence the importance of contract rather than status, of choice and complementarity rather than ascription in the shuffling of herding partners. All the while each individual is attending to their reindeer as reproductive wealth (capital). Aside from the number of animals, their distribution respecting gender and age are important, and it is in the husbandry of living reindeer as capital (conversion to material goods is quite secondary) that pastoral reputations are earned. Beyond the complementarity of pastoral relations, there are inequalities concerning both pastures and capital, and these can introduce strife. Here Paine looks for the emic meanings behind the appropriation of another's pastures or animals, and how responses to appropriation may be communicated in their turn with carefully chosen reindeer as the message carriers.Throughout Camps, then, one is aware of the crucial importance of knowledge in sustaining this society and its pastoral culture: knowledge of the animals and their pastures, knowledge of one's fellow pastoralists. Every pastoralist prides her/him-self as knowledgeable; even so, intentionality and foreknowledge may be jeopardized through the unpredictables of this pastoral life not least among which are the unfore-casteable changes in tundra ecology. Codice articolo PGNOV134

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