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Arctic

culture and climate


  • Thames & Hudson
  • Expo: 2210/2020 - 21/2/2021, British Museum, London
  • by Amber Lincoln, Jago Cooper, Peter Loovers (Eds)
For more than 25,000 years, the Arctic has been home to indigenous people who have transformed this inhospitable region of the world into thriving homelands based on ice, overcoming the harshest weather conditions and seasonal fluctuations through ingenious innovations and strong community spirit. Now, for the first time in their long history, they are facing the very real possibility that sea ice and permafrost - key to their way of life - will soon disappear.

ISBN 9780500480663 | E | HB
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Publisher Thames & Hudson
ISBN 9780500480663
Author(s) Amber Lincoln, Jago Cooper, Peter Loovers (Eds)
Publication date September 2020
Edition Hardback
Dimensions 250 x 220 mm
Illustrations 350 col. & bw ill.
Pages 320
Language(s) Eng. ed.
Exhibition British Museum, London
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The Arctic, often imagined as one of the most inhospitable places on earth, has been inhabited for nearly 30,000 years. The various communities that call the region home have found ingenious ways to harness and celebrate their environment, and to co-exist with its wildlife. Today, man-made climate change is transforming the region at an unprecedented rate, bringing with it a new set of challenges. Arctic: culture and climate explores the history of the Circumpolar North and its peoples through the lens of climate change and weather, drawing on a wealth of objects, artworks and voices – from past and present – to show how Arctic Peoples and their cultural traditions have continued to thrive amid both social and environmental change