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The interplays of histories, economies and cultures in human adaptation and settlement patterns: the cases of the Faroe Islands and Greenland / Lotta Numminen.
Title: | The interplays of histories, economies and cultures in human adaptation and settlement patterns: the cases of the Faroe Islands and Greenland / Lotta Numminen. |
Author(s): | Numminen, Lotta. |
Date: | 2010. |
Publisher: | Helsinki: University of Helsinki Department of Geosciences and Geography |
Abstract: | Investigates how two northern societies, Faroe Islands and Greenland, have responded to challenges caused by interplay of environmental, political, and socio-economic changes. Demonstrates ways in which adaptation has been connected with settlement patterns. In medieval and early modern times, adaptation was "learning-by-doing". Before 20th century Inuit adaptation in Greenland consisted of both short-term responses (shifts between settlement sites) and long-term strategies, including new hunting techniques and well-defined societal rules and practices. Temperature rises during early 1900s spurred economic transition from seal hunting to cod fishing, which led to concentration of people in West Greenland. In Faroe Islands, settlement pattern was initially dictated by dominant economic activity, sheep rearing. Economic transition from farming society to fishing began in 18th century. Industrialisation of fishing in late 1800s and early 1900s caused concentration of population in largest fishing settlements and in capital Tórshavn. |
Keywords: | 314 -- Demography. 33 -- Economics. 364.122/.124 -- Social change and associated problems. 39 -- Ethnography: Inuit. 63 -- Renewable resources. 93"15/19" -- Sixteenth to twentieth centuries A.D. V -- History. (*3) -- Arctic regions. (*37) -- Faroe Islands. (*38) -- Greenland. |
Location(s): | SCO: SPRI-SHF: (*38) : 93[2010] |
ISBN: | 9789521061370 |
SPRI record no.: | 190799 |
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