Plants in a "Sea of Relationships": Networks of Plants and Fishing in Makkovik, Nunatsiavut (Labrador, Canada)

• Published in: Journal of Ethnobiology
• Main Authors: Oberndorfer, E. (Erica), Winters, N. (Nellie), Gear, C. (Carol), Ljubicic, G. (Gita), Lundholm, J. (Jeremy)
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: fishing practices; Indigenous methodologies; Inuit; Labrador; plants; Canada; Makkovik; inuit
• Online Access: https://ir.library.carleton.ca/pub/15567; https://doi.org/10.2993/0278-0771-37.3.458

The importance of plants to peoples of the circumpolar North is often overlooked by non-residents. This oversight stems partly from perceptions of northern diets as exclusively meat- and fish-based and from a tendency for visiting researchers to assign plants to categories of utility--edible, medici...