A Fractured North

Erich Kasten (Hrsg.)

Erich Kasten is ethnologist from Berlin who has done research with the First Nations in the Canadian Pacific Northwest and in Northeastern Siberia. As the first coordinator of the Siberian research group at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, he studied transformations in Post-Soviet Siberia. In ensuing projects for UNESCO and the National Science Foundation, he documented and analyzed indigenous knowledge. He also has curated international museum exhibitions. Since 2010 he has been the director of the Foundation for Siberian Cultures in Fürstenberg/Havel (Germany). More recently he has also applied himself to developing web archives and Internet interfaces with the purpose of enhancing access and sustaining endangered cultural heritage.

Igor Krupnik (Hrsg.)

Igor Krupnik is curator of Arctic and Northern ethnological collections at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, USA. He publishes extensively on Indigenous adaptations to social and environ-mental change, history of research in the polar regions, and the value of museum, archival, and photographic collections to northern Indigenous people.

Gail Fondahl (Hrsg.)

Gail Fondahl is Professor emerita of Geography at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada. Her research focuses on Indigenous rights in the Russian North, including the changing spaces that legal reforms permit, and their materialization as laws are invoked, interpreted, and implemented in place.