Cold comfort: what can Arctic cultures teach us for our future survival? theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…
“A circular map with the North Pole at its centre details 24 different cultural groups wheeling around the Arctic circle; some 400,000 people.”
“No other human cultures experience such seasonality, such extremes of midsummer light and midwinter dark. No other cultures use ice in so many ways: for transport, building material, food preservation.”
“This map makes us rethink our customary projections that locate Arctic cultures as the upper remotes of European or North American or Russian states.”
“To Arctic peoples themselves the distances are shorter, they know their neighbours. Trade and influence around Arctic groups has been going on for millennia.”
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