Arctic food biographies. An ethnographic study of food and health in everyday life of elderly Arctic women

• Main Author: Kvitberg, Trine
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: UiT The Arctic University of Norway 2020
• Subjects: VDP::Social science: 200::Social anthropology: 250; VDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Sosialantropologi: 250; VDP::Medical disciplines: 700::Health sciences: 800::Community medicine; Social medicine: 801; VDP::Medisinske Fag: 700::Helsefag: 800::Samfunnsmedisin; sosialmedisin: 801; DOKTOR-003; Arctic; Greenland; Kvinnenes; Russland; Tromso; Arktis; Arktis*; Grønland; Nord-Norge; North-West Russia; University of Tromso
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/19903

The aim of the ethnographic study described was to listen sensitively and give voice to elderly Arctic women’s personal food biographies and everyday experiences of living in small coastal towns and inland areas of Norway’s Circumpolar North, North West Russia and Greenland. These specified geograph...