TRACES

The project aims to better understand the differences between Western-scientific understandings of sustainability/conservation, and time-honored Inuit traditional knowledge about environmental health and human/nonhuman animal relationships.

This will be accomplished through research on:

• Modern Inuit subsistence hunting (of, for example, seals, walruses and caribou)
• The archaeology of past harvesting (from ca. AD 1300 to present)
• Inuit traditional knowledge about hunting and broader relationships with animals
• Circumpolar governmental policy on the regulation of a wide-range of animal-related activities, such as hunting, sewing and carving.

Project lead is Sean Desjardins

Funded by the European Union (ERC-StG, TRACES, Project No. 101116504). Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s)/researcher(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Council Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them