Runne-Beana
Dog Herds Ethnographer
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6144699 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Myrdene Anderson (Purdue University West Lafayette, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2016-12-31 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnobiology Letters (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2159-8126 • E-ISSN: 2159-8126 |
| Publisher | Society of Ethnobiology (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.14237/ebl.7.2.2016.725 |
| OpenAlex | W2563904430 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
Saami society in Lapland (now often called Saapmi), particularly the seasonally-nomadic reindeer-breeding sector, is predicated upon mobility and autonomy of its actors. Runne-Beana, a talented reindeer-herding dog, exhibited both mobility and autonomy when allocating to himself a peripatetic ethnographer, on the first day of five years of doctoral dissertation fieldwork in arctic Norway in 1972. That family’s and the wider community’s reactions to Runne-Beana’s behavior, and mine, highlight the tensions when mobility and autonomy compound with ideologies of ownership and control. At the same time, his companionship profoundly shaped all field relationships, engendering an understanding of dog culture as it is manifest in the herder/herding dog/reindeer triad and in the interpenetration of assumptions concerning child/dog enculturation
Archaeology · Autonomy · Enculturation · Ethnography · Ethnology · Geography · Herding · Ideology · Kinship · Political science · Social science · Socialization · Sociology · Anthropology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Law · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |