Home >
Law >
Others >
Sacred Places in the Arctic and Beyond: Cultural and Existential Transitions

Coming Soon Sacred Places in the Arctic and Beyond: Cultural and Existential Transitions

Sacred Places in the Arctic and Beyond: Cultural and Existential Transitions

Author: Francis Joy; Patrick Dillon; Dawid Bunikowski
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781032973739
Published In: June 2026
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

List Price: S$301.60

S$292.55 Save S$9.05 (3%)

Download Order Form

Add to Wishlist
| Add to Compare

Description
Contents

Details

Sacred Places in the Arctic and Beyond brings together indigenous and non-indigenous scholars, rightsholders, and practitioners to explore the status and management of sacred places, which are important as both tangible and intangible cultural heritage. It acknowledges the critical functions and roles that sacred places play in connection with local people, traditions, beliefs, and practices, as identity markers, places of cultural transmission and memory, and locations that support ecosystems and biodiversity.

Four chapters present case studies from the Arctic, and four more widen the geographical coverage to North America, South America, Africa and Europe, each describing the cultural contexts and Indigenous cosmologies of sacred places in their respective regions. The studies raise issues of access to sacred places, destruction and disruption caused by extractive industries and tourism, and implications of these challenges for their management. The book concludes with three chapters that call for policy reappraisals. They address the problem of how Western-orientated discourses and organisational structures frame legislation about, and management of, sacred places in ways which are seldom compatible with how Indigenous people understand these places and engage with them. Major themes from the case studies are integrated with ideas from cultural ecology and legal pluralism into a framework to inform future policy.

List of Figures

List of Contributors

1. Sacred Places in transition. An introduction and organisational framework based on cultural ecology and legal pluralism

Patrick Dillon, Francis Joy and Dawid Bunikowski

Part One: The Arctic

2. Mythical landscapes and sacred natural places in the Arctic North, their exploitation through tourism and inadequate protection

Francis Joy

3. Relating to Place: Belonging, Identity and the Sámi People of Giron (Kiruna), Sweden

Åsa Andersson Martti

4. Guided by the Aahka - Indigenous Art as a tool for relating with the Pluriversal reality of Sámi Cosmology

Hege Dalen

5. The Nenets’ sacred places: the life story of the Singing Mountain Yangania Pe