War Asset and Solidarity on the Hoof: Reindeer in the Fennoscandian Arctic During World War II
2024 (English)In: War and Animals: Non-Human Actors and Human Made Conflict / [ed] Frank Jacob, Paderborn: Brill Academic Publishers, 2024, p. 273-297Chapter in book (Other academic)
Abstract [en]
This chapter highlights some of the relationships between animals and humansin the European Arctic during World War II, with special attention on reindeeras a unique and key species in the region. The main part of the chapter focuseson the value and meaning humans attached to the reindeer during the waryears. The Sweden-based Sámi newspaper Samefolkets Egen Tidning offers par-ticular insights into the reasoning and motivation for ascribing the reindeermultiple roles and functions. However, since reindeer never lived shielded orisolated from other species – human and non-human animals alike – the latterpart of the chapter will explore some of the manifold multispecies relations innorthernmost Europe between 1940 and 1945. What role did reindeer play inthe web of relations in the wartime Arctic?
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Paderborn: Brill Academic Publishers, 2024. p. 273-297
Series
War (Hi)Stories ; 14
Keywords [en]
Reindeer, World War II, human-animal relations, Fennoscandian Arctic, War, Arctic, Norway, Sweden, Lapp codicil, Finland, Sámi, Sápmi, Indigenous, reindeer herding, semi-domesticated, seasonal migrations, cross-border mobility, migratory animals, meat, skin, clothing, cold climate, transport, draught animals, occupation, refugees, smuggle, exoticism, adaptation, poaching, solidarity, patriotism, marginalization, racial segregation, national preparedness, predation, horses, food rationing, prisoners of war, soldiers.
National Category
Humanities and the Arts History and Archaeology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-216976DOI: 10.30965/9783657794751_012ISBN: 978-3-657-79475-1 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-216976DiVA, id: diva2:1992171
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