Whose track is it anyway?:An anthropological perspective on collaboration with biologists and hunters in Thule, northwest Greenland
From May 2015 until May 2016, 19 occupational hunters, two anthropologists, two biologists and one GIS expert engaged in a project of collaborative data-collection in Northwest Greenland. With handheld GPS devices and a designed software called Piniariarneq (Hunting Trip) hunters tracked their hunti...
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ftalborgunivpubl:oai:pure.atira.dk:publications/69a57482-3e76-4b02-b69e-8ba9abfdc464 2023-05-15T16:27:34+02:00 Whose track is it anyway?:An anthropological perspective on collaboration with biologists and hunters in Thule, northwest Greenland Flora, Janne Andersen, Astrid Oberborbeck 2017 https://vbn.aau.dk/da/publications/69a57482-3e76-4b02-b69e-8ba9abfdc464 https://doi.org/10.1353/cla.2016.0012 eng eng info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess Flora , J & Andersen , A O 2017 , ' Whose track is it anyway? An anthropological perspective on collaboration with biologists and hunters in Thule, northwest Greenland ' , Collaborative Anthropologies , vol. 9 , no. 1-2 , pp. 79-116 . https://doi.org/10.1353/cla.2016.0012 article 2017 ftalborgunivpubl https://doi.org/10.1353/cla.2016.0012 2023-01-12T22:38:44Z From May 2015 until May 2016, 19 occupational hunters, two anthropologists, two biologists and one GIS expert engaged in a project of collaborative data-collection in Northwest Greenland. With handheld GPS devices and a designed software called Piniariarneq (Hunting Trip) hunters tracked their hunting routes, registered animals caught and observed, and photographed and video-filmed important places, events, and other phenomena they found interesting and relevant to register. This essay describes the conception and implementation of Piniariarneq, and uses this experience as a lens through which to examine questions about appropriation, responsibility, and ownership in collaborative research endeavours. By scrutinizing how different collaborative partners engaged in the process with differing interests and aims, and by showing how partners took ownership of Piniariarneq in different ways, we argue that collaboration always takes place through particular relations, positions and interests. Any standardization of modes of and for collaboration are therefore problematic. Collaboration instead unfolds in complex processes that are difficult to plan because the different collaborating partners enter, push and pull the collaboration in different directions, and because every collaboration takes place in its own particular historical context. From May 2015 until May 2016, nineteen occupational hunters, two anthropologists, two biologists, and one GIS expert engaged in a project of collaborative data collection in Northwest Greenland. With handheld GPS devices and a specially designed software called Piniariarneq (Hunting Trip), hunters tracked their hunting routes, registered animals caught and observed, and photographed and videoed important places, events, and other phenomena they found interesting and relevant to register. This essay describes the conception and implementation of Piniariarneq, and uses this experience as a lens through which to examine questions about appropriation, responsibility, and ownership in ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Greenland Thule Aalborg University's Research Portal Greenland Collaborative Anthropologies 9 1-2 79 116 |
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From May 2015 until May 2016, 19 occupational hunters, two anthropologists, two biologists and one GIS expert engaged in a project of collaborative data-collection in Northwest Greenland. With handheld GPS devices and a designed software called Piniariarneq (Hunting Trip) hunters tracked their hunting routes, registered animals caught and observed, and photographed and video-filmed important places, events, and other phenomena they found interesting and relevant to register. This essay describes the conception and implementation of Piniariarneq, and uses this experience as a lens through which to examine questions about appropriation, responsibility, and ownership in collaborative research endeavours. By scrutinizing how different collaborative partners engaged in the process with differing interests and aims, and by showing how partners took ownership of Piniariarneq in different ways, we argue that collaboration always takes place through particular relations, positions and interests. Any standardization of modes of and for collaboration are therefore problematic. Collaboration instead unfolds in complex processes that are difficult to plan because the different collaborating partners enter, push and pull the collaboration in different directions, and because every collaboration takes place in its own particular historical context. From May 2015 until May 2016, nineteen occupational hunters, two anthropologists, two biologists, and one GIS expert engaged in a project of collaborative data collection in Northwest Greenland. With handheld GPS devices and a specially designed software called Piniariarneq (Hunting Trip), hunters tracked their hunting routes, registered animals caught and observed, and photographed and videoed important places, events, and other phenomena they found interesting and relevant to register. This essay describes the conception and implementation of Piniariarneq, and uses this experience as a lens through which to examine questions about appropriation, responsibility, and ownership in ... |
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Whose track is it anyway?:An anthropological perspective on collaboration with biologists and hunters in Thule, northwest Greenland |
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