Traditional ecological knowledge among Sami reindeer herders in northern Sweden about vascular plants grazed by reindeer
Traditional knowledge about how reindeer utilize forage resources was expected to be crucial to reindeer herders. Seventeen Sami reindeer herders in four reindeer herding communities in Sweden (“samebyar” in Swedish) were interviewed about plants species considered to be important reindeer food plan...
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ftunitroemsoe:oai:ojs.henry.ub.uit.no:article/2233 2023-05-15T17:44:42+02:00 Traditional ecological knowledge among Sami reindeer herders in northern Sweden about vascular plants grazed by reindeer Inga, Berit Danell, Öje 2013-03-01 application/pdf https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/rangifer/article/view/2233 https://doi.org/10.7557/2.32.1.2233 eng eng Septentrio Academic Publishing https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/rangifer/article/view/2233/2079 https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/rangifer/article/view/2233 doi:10.7557/2.32.1.2233 Copyright (c) 2015 Berit Inga, Öje Danell http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC-BY Rangifer; Årg 32 Nr 1 (2012); 1-17 Rangifer; Vol 32 No 1 (2012); 1-17 1890-6729 forage pastoralism range management reindeer husbandry reindeer pasture Sami reindeer herders scientific knowledge Sweden TEK traditional knowledge vascular plants vegetation info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2013 ftunitroemsoe https://doi.org/10.7557/2.32.1.2233 2021-08-16T15:09:59Z Traditional knowledge about how reindeer utilize forage resources was expected to be crucial to reindeer herders. Seventeen Sami reindeer herders in four reindeer herding communities in Sweden (“samebyar” in Swedish) were interviewed about plants species considered to be important reindeer food plants in scientific literature. Among 40 plant species, which the informants were asked to identify and indicate whether and when they were grazed by reindeer, they identified a total of 21 plant taxa and five plant groups. They especially recognised species that were used as human food by the Sami themselves, but certain specific forage plants were also identified. Detailed knowledge of vascular plants at the species level was surprisingly general, which may indicate that knowledge of pasture resources in a detailed species level is not of vital importance. This fact is in sharp contradiction to the detailed knowledge that Sami people express for example about reindeer (as an animal) or snow (as physical element). The plausible explanation is that observations of individual plant species are unnecessarily detailed information in large-scale reindeer pastoralism, because the animals graze freely under loose herding and border surveillance. Article in Journal/Newspaper Northern Sweden Rangifer reindeer husbandry sami University of Tromsø: Septentrio Academic Publishing Rangifer 32 1 1 17 |
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Traditional knowledge about how reindeer utilize forage resources was expected to be crucial to reindeer herders. Seventeen Sami reindeer herders in four reindeer herding communities in Sweden (“samebyar” in Swedish) were interviewed about plants species considered to be important reindeer food plants in scientific literature. Among 40 plant species, which the informants were asked to identify and indicate whether and when they were grazed by reindeer, they identified a total of 21 plant taxa and five plant groups. They especially recognised species that were used as human food by the Sami themselves, but certain specific forage plants were also identified. Detailed knowledge of vascular plants at the species level was surprisingly general, which may indicate that knowledge of pasture resources in a detailed species level is not of vital importance. This fact is in sharp contradiction to the detailed knowledge that Sami people express for example about reindeer (as an animal) or snow (as physical element). The plausible explanation is that observations of individual plant species are unnecessarily detailed information in large-scale reindeer pastoralism, because the animals graze freely under loose herding and border surveillance. |
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Traditional ecological knowledge among Sami reindeer herders in northern Sweden about vascular plants grazed by reindeer |
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Traditional ecological knowledge among Sami reindeer herders in northern Sweden about vascular plants grazed by reindeer |
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Traditional ecological knowledge among Sami reindeer herders in northern Sweden about vascular plants grazed by reindeer |
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Traditional ecological knowledge among Sami reindeer herders in northern Sweden about vascular plants grazed by reindeer |
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Traditional ecological knowledge among Sami reindeer herders in northern Sweden about vascular plants grazed by reindeer |
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traditional ecological knowledge among sami reindeer herders in northern sweden about vascular plants grazed by reindeer |
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