Is Skrei a Historical Norwegian Figure? The Nomadic Symbiosis of Fish and Humans in the Lofoten Islands

Is Skrei a Historical Norwegian Figure? The Nomadic Symbiosis of Fish and Humans in the Lofoten Islands

This paper draws from short ethnographic fieldwork and collected oral histories in the Lofoten Islands in Northern Norway in 2019. In this paper I follow “skrei”, the Norwegian codfish (Gadus morhua). I explore what I call the “nomadic symbiosis” of islanders and skrei via their diachronic entanglem...

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Main Author: Nafsika Papacharalampous
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: LED Edizioni Universitarie 2021-06-01
Series:Relations
Subjects:
fish
fishing
human-animal relations
identity
multi-species ethnography
nationalism
nomadic symbiosis
non-human agency
norway
oral histories.
Online Access:https://www.ledonline.it/index.php/Relations/article/view/2468

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