Sean P A Desjardin
Biographic Data
| ID | 142181 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sean P A Desjardin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sean P A |
| FAMILY NAME | Desjardin |
| SIGNATURE | DESJARDIN S P A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Canadian Museum of Nature |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9688-9216 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Introduction: Proceedings of the International Council for Archaeozoology (Icaz) Marine Mammal Working Group Meeting (Groningen, 2–3 September 2021)
Island and coastal societies have always lived in close conversation with the sea. Marine mammals and marine turtles sit at the center of that dialogue: as food, as raw material, as dangerous or po...
Zooarchaeology of Houses and Middens: Investigating Patterns of Assemblage Composition at Early Inuit Sites Across the North American Arctic
This study examines faunal assemblages from paired semisubterranean houses and middens at 10 Early Inuit sites spanning the North American Arctic (ca. 1200–1500 ce ) to evaluate whether local resource bases or other factors primarily structure zooarchaeological variability. Using taxonomic, taphonomic, and multivariate analyses, we compare assemblage composition, diversity, and bone modifications to assess patterns of site formation and human beh…
Voix Inuit: Archéologie communautaire dans l'Arctique nord-américain
Voix Inuit : Archéologie communautaire dans l'Arctique nord-américain. Un article de la revue Études Inuit Studies (Voix Inuit : Archéologie communautaire dans l'Arctique nord-américain) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Inuit Voices: Community-Based Archaeology across the North American Arctic
Inuit Voices: Community-Based Archaeology across the North American Arctic. Un article de la revue Études Inuit Studies (Voix Inuit : Archéologie communautaire dans l'Arctique nord-américain) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
In the Eye of the Beholder: Using Microscopic Analysis in the Interpretation of Tuniit (Dorset Paleo-Inuit) Art
How archaeologists classify and categorise artefacts has the potential to direct and bias interpretations before analysis has taken place. A clear example of this phenomenon in Arctic archaeology is the analysis of material culture classified as “art” attributed to premodern Tuniit peoples (Late Dorset Paleo-Inuit, ca. AD 800 - 1300). Often, analyses of Tuniit art pieces are restricted by the use of customary typologies that can impose modern ass…
Before Iglulik: Inuit Memory and Recent-Historic Archaeology at Avvajja, Nunavut
Before Iglulik is an archaeological and oral-historical project undertaken to record and document Inuit settlements around Iglulik (Igloolik) during the period preceding the establishment of modern hamlets in the Canadian Arctic in the mid-20th century. The archaeological component of the research consisted of recording and mapping features at Avvajja, an early 20th-century campsite located approximately six kilometers northwest of Iglulik, while…
Avant Iglulik: Mémoire inuit et archéologie récente à Avvajja, Nunavut
Before Igloolik est un projet d'archéologie et d'histoire orale dont le but est d'inventorier et de documenter les établissements Inuit près d'Iglulik (Igloulik) durant la période précédant l'établissement de villages modernes dans l'Arctique Canadien, au milieu du XXe siècle. L'aspect archéologique de la recherche visait à inventorier et à cartographier les structures archéologiques à Avvajja, un campement du début du XXe siècle situé à environ …
Hoe een inheems perspectief de archeologische interpretatie kan verbreden
How Indigenous-focused research can inform broader archaeological practice. In Europe, archaeologists have traditionally engaged less with the concept of Indigenous archaeology—and the various cultural-anthropological tenets underpinning it—than with the related, but distinct, concepts of ethnicity, nationalism and even autochthony, which are ostensibly more congruent with the various forms of social organization observed across the continent fro…
Looking back while moving forward: How past responses to climate change can inform future adaptation and mitigation strategies in the Arctic
Modern Arctic Indigenous peoples face many interconnected pressures, not the least of which is anthropogenic climate change, which is emerging as one of the most dramatic drivers of social and economic change in recent memory. In this paper, we investigate whether or not insights into premodern strategies for coping with climate change—and especially the “deeper histories” of traditional ways-of-knowing—can play a useful role in future planning, …
Long-term perspectives on circumpolar social-ecological systems
A Change of Subject: Perspectivism and Multinaturalism in Inuit Depictions of Interspecies Transformation
A recurring theme within the complex cosmopolitics of pre-Christian Inuit is the transformation of persons-typically, but not exclusively, shamans (both human and nonhuman animal) and spirit beings-from one physical form, or "species," to another. The motif is common in contemporary Inuit visual art and recent historic oral tradition, and less frequent (or less apparent) in precontact material culture. In this paper, I examine how interspecies re…
Arctic Archaeology and Climate Change
An enduring debate in the field of Arctic archaeology has been the extent to which climate change impacted cultural developments in the past. Long-term culture change across the circumpolar Arctic was often highly dynamic, with episodes of rapid migration, regional abandonment, and-in some cases-the disappearance or wholesale replacement of entire cultural traditions. By the 1960s, researchers were exploring the possibility that warming episodes …
Ethnoarcheologie in Noord-Canada: Hoe klimaatverandering en kolonialisme de traditionele manier van leven van de Inuit hebben beïnvloed van 1300 n.Chr. tot nu
Ethnoarchaeology in Arctic Canada: Exploring how climate change and colonialism impacted traditional Inuit life, ca. AD 1300 to present. Over the past several hundred years, traditional practices of indigenous peoples across the circumpolar Arctic have been heavily impacted by ecological and social stresses, including episodes of dramatic climate change, as well as colonialist policies that restricted residential mobility and eventually encourage…
Laugrand, Frédéric and Jarich Oosten, 2015 Hunters, Predators and Prey: Inuit Perceptions of Animals, New York, Berghahn, 408 pages
LAUGRAND, Frédéric and Jarich OOSTEN, 2015 Hunters, Predators and Prey: Inuit Perceptions of Animals, New York, Berghahn, 408 pages. Un article de la revue Études/Inuit/Studies (Archéologie du Nunavik et du Labrador) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Introduction: Reconstructions Du Passé Inuit
Introduction: reconstructions du passé inuit / Introduction: Reconstructions of the Inuit past. Un article de la revue Études/Inuit/Studies (Volume 37, numéro 1, 2013, p. 5-230) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Evidence for intensive walrus hunting by Thule Inuit, northwest Foxe Basin, Nunavut, Canada
Desjardins, Sean P. A. (2013): Evidence for intensive walrus hunting by Thule Inuit, northwest Foxe Basin, Nunavut, Canada. Anthropozoologica 48 (1): 37-51, DOI: 10.5252/az2013n1a2, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/az2013n1a2
Arctic Archaeology and Climate Change
An enduring debate in the field of Arctic archaeology has been the extent to which climate change impacted cultural developments in the past. Long-term culture change across the circumpolar Arctic was often highly dynamic, with episodes of rapid migration, regional abandonment, and-in some cases-the disappearance or wholesale replacement of entire cultural traditions. By the 1960s, researchers were exploring the possibility that warming episodes …
Evidence for intensive walrus hunting by Thule Inuit, northwest Foxe Basin, Nunavut, Canada
Desjardins, Sean P. A. (2013): Evidence for intensive walrus hunting by Thule Inuit, northwest Foxe Basin, Nunavut, Canada. Anthropozoologica 48 (1): 37-51, DOI: 10.5252/az2013n1a2, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/az2013n1a2
A Change of Subject: Perspectivism and Multinaturalism in Inuit Depictions of Interspecies Transformation
A recurring theme within the complex cosmopolitics of pre-Christian Inuit is the transformation of persons-typically, but not exclusively, shamans (both human and nonhuman animal) and spirit beings-from one physical form, or "species," to another. The motif is common in contemporary Inuit visual art and recent historic oral tradition, and less frequent (or less apparent) in precontact material culture. In this paper, I examine how interspecies re…
Introduction: Reconstructions Du Passé Inuit
Introduction: reconstructions du passé inuit / Introduction: Reconstructions of the Inuit past. Un article de la revue Études/Inuit/Studies (Volume 37, numéro 1, 2013, p. 5-230) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Evidence for intensive walrus hunting by Thule Inuit, northwest Foxe Basin, Nunavut, Canada
Desjardins, Sean P. A. (2013): Evidence for intensive walrus hunting by Thule Inuit, northwest Foxe Basin, Nunavut, Canada. Anthropozoologica 48 (1): 37-51, DOI: 10.5252/az2013n1a2, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/az2013n1a2
Laugrand, Frédéric and Jarich Oosten, 2015 Hunters, Predators and Prey: Inuit Perceptions of Animals, New York, Berghahn, 408 pages
LAUGRAND, Frédéric and Jarich OOSTEN, 2015 Hunters, Predators and Prey: Inuit Perceptions of Animals, New York, Berghahn, 408 pages. Un article de la revue Études/Inuit/Studies (Archéologie du Nunavik et du Labrador) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Ethnoarcheologie in Noord-Canada: Hoe klimaatverandering en kolonialisme de traditionele manier van leven van de Inuit hebben beïnvloed van 1300 n.Chr. tot nu
Ethnoarchaeology in Arctic Canada: Exploring how climate change and colonialism impacted traditional Inuit life, ca. AD 1300 to present. Over the past several hundred years, traditional practices of indigenous peoples across the circumpolar Arctic have been heavily impacted by ecological and social stresses, including episodes of dramatic climate change, as well as colonialist policies that restricted residential mobility and eventually encourage…
A Change of Subject: Perspectivism and Multinaturalism in Inuit Depictions of Interspecies Transformation
A recurring theme within the complex cosmopolitics of pre-Christian Inuit is the transformation of persons-typically, but not exclusively, shamans (both human and nonhuman animal) and spirit beings-from one physical form, or "species," to another. The motif is common in contemporary Inuit visual art and recent historic oral tradition, and less frequent (or less apparent) in precontact material culture. In this paper, I examine how interspecies re…
Arctic Archaeology and Climate Change
An enduring debate in the field of Arctic archaeology has been the extent to which climate change impacted cultural developments in the past. Long-term culture change across the circumpolar Arctic was often highly dynamic, with episodes of rapid migration, regional abandonment, and-in some cases-the disappearance or wholesale replacement of entire cultural traditions. By the 1960s, researchers were exploring the possibility that warming episodes …
Looking back while moving forward: How past responses to climate change can inform future adaptation and mitigation strategies in the Arctic
Modern Arctic Indigenous peoples face many interconnected pressures, not the least of which is anthropogenic climate change, which is emerging as one of the most dramatic drivers of social and economic change in recent memory. In this paper, we investigate whether or not insights into premodern strategies for coping with climate change—and especially the “deeper histories” of traditional ways-of-knowing—can play a useful role in future planning, …
Long-term perspectives on circumpolar social-ecological systems
Hoe een inheems perspectief de archeologische interpretatie kan verbreden
How Indigenous-focused research can inform broader archaeological practice. In Europe, archaeologists have traditionally engaged less with the concept of Indigenous archaeology—and the various cultural-anthropological tenets underpinning it—than with the related, but distinct, concepts of ethnicity, nationalism and even autochthony, which are ostensibly more congruent with the various forms of social organization observed across the continent fro…
Before Iglulik: Inuit Memory and Recent-Historic Archaeology at Avvajja, Nunavut
Before Iglulik is an archaeological and oral-historical project undertaken to record and document Inuit settlements around Iglulik (Igloolik) during the period preceding the establishment of modern hamlets in the Canadian Arctic in the mid-20th century. The archaeological component of the research consisted of recording and mapping features at Avvajja, an early 20th-century campsite located approximately six kilometers northwest of Iglulik, while…
Avant Iglulik: Mémoire inuit et archéologie récente à Avvajja, Nunavut
Before Igloolik est un projet d'archéologie et d'histoire orale dont le but est d'inventorier et de documenter les établissements Inuit près d'Iglulik (Igloulik) durant la période précédant l'établissement de villages modernes dans l'Arctique Canadien, au milieu du XXe siècle. L'aspect archéologique de la recherche visait à inventorier et à cartographier les structures archéologiques à Avvajja, un campement du début du XXe siècle situé à environ …
Voix Inuit: Archéologie communautaire dans l'Arctique nord-américain
Voix Inuit : Archéologie communautaire dans l'Arctique nord-américain. Un article de la revue Études Inuit Studies (Voix Inuit : Archéologie communautaire dans l'Arctique nord-américain) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Inuit Voices: Community-Based Archaeology across the North American Arctic
Inuit Voices: Community-Based Archaeology across the North American Arctic. Un article de la revue Études Inuit Studies (Voix Inuit : Archéologie communautaire dans l'Arctique nord-américain) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
In the Eye of the Beholder: Using Microscopic Analysis in the Interpretation of Tuniit (Dorset Paleo-Inuit) Art
How archaeologists classify and categorise artefacts has the potential to direct and bias interpretations before analysis has taken place. A clear example of this phenomenon in Arctic archaeology is the analysis of material culture classified as “art” attributed to premodern Tuniit peoples (Late Dorset Paleo-Inuit, ca. AD 800 - 1300). Often, analyses of Tuniit art pieces are restricted by the use of customary typologies that can impose modern ass…
Introduction: Proceedings of the International Council for Archaeozoology (Icaz) Marine Mammal Working Group Meeting (Groningen, 2–3 September 2021)
Island and coastal societies have always lived in close conversation with the sea. Marine mammals and marine turtles sit at the center of that dialogue: as food, as raw material, as dangerous or po...
Zooarchaeology of Houses and Middens: Investigating Patterns of Assemblage Composition at Early Inuit Sites Across the North American Arctic
This study examines faunal assemblages from paired semisubterranean houses and middens at 10 Early Inuit sites spanning the North American Arctic (ca. 1200–1500 ce ) to evaluate whether local resource bases or other factors primarily structure zooarchaeological variability. Using taxonomic, taphonomic, and multivariate analyses, we compare assemblage composition, diversity, and bone modifications to assess patterns of site formation and human beh…
Indigenous Studies and Ecology (14 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (13 works) · Geography (10 works) · Geology (9 works) · Archaeology (8 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Arctic (7 works) · Oceanography (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Biology (4 works)