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Pastoralist Economic Behavior: Empirical Results from Reindeer Herders in Northern Sweden

open access: yes
This paper presents a model of pastoralists, as illustrated by reindeer herders, together with an analysis based on a cross-sectional data set on Swedish reindeer-herding Saami.
Bostedt, Goran
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Introduction : Perspectives on the Hhistory and Ethnoarchaeology of Reindeer Domestication and Herding [PDF]

open access: yes
Reindeer herding today is under multiple pressures from climate change, competing forms of land use, and socioeconomic change. At the same time, reindeer-herding practices are important bearers of memory and tradition.
Salmi, Anna-Kaisa
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Reindeer-herding science in the Soviet Union and Russia: a short historical overview

open access: yesPastoralism
This article describes the history of Soviet/Russian research into methods, techniques, and ecology of reindeer herding as a productive economy (rather than a cultural phenomenon).
Kirill V. Istomin, Joachim Otto Habeck
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State Steering and Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Reindeer-Herding Governance [Elektronisk resurs] : Cases from western Finnmark, Norway and Yamal, Russia

open access: yes, 2016
The Arctic regions are currently undergoing transformative changes linked to globalization and climate change, which pose challenges for current governance structures.
Müller, Dieter,   +3 more
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The corral and the slaughterhouse: knowledge, tradition and the modernization of indigenous reindeer slaughtering practice in the Norwegian Arctic

open access: yes, 2009
This dissertation is a contribution to the ethnography of contemporary indigenous reindeer pastoralism in Norway: specifically, to the study of the neglected fields of reindeer killing and slaughtering practice.

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The legal basis of Sami reindeer herding rights in Sweden

open access: yes, 2020
: This article discusses the basis of the Sami right to pursue reindeer herding, and how that right has been regulated in law. Two aspects of this right are particularly significant: establishing which land areas are covered by the reindeer herding right
Dr Eivind Torp   +2 more
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AirHerd - Drone use in reindeer herding [PDF]

open access: yes
The introduction of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), or drones, to traditional reindeer herding has – literally – given indigenous Sámi herders a new perspective: the aerial one.AirHerd - Drone use in reindeer ...
Wagner, Gabriela, Harvard, Jonas
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