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- Anthropology of polar bears
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Category Archives: Announcements
Anthropology of polar bears
“Polar bear, polar bear what do you see? I see an anthropologist fearing of me.” The city map of Longyearbyen is colored according to the secure areas without polar bear protection – the darker the color, the safer is to … Continue reading
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Svalbard Spitzbergen Arctic logistic: From the Arctic Circle to the very North – through the very South
Greetings from Svalbard! It is a bit chilly here in Longyearbyen, especially if you come from the South, I mean from the Arctic Circle, where it was +24 when I left Rovaniemi. Some snowflakes were falling down during the day … Continue reading
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Teaching abroad (in the Republic of Sakha Yakutia, Russia)
Writing blog entries is definitely not my life element. However, sometimes you realize that it is a good place to highlight some activities going on at the Arctic Centre and thank our supporting funding agencies, which make these activities possible. … Continue reading
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New book about the history of the Sámi from Russia during Soviet times – online open access
My book “The Sámi of the Kola Peninsula: About the life of an ethnic minority in the Soviet Union” has been recently translated into English and published on the internet within the publication series of the Centre for Sámi Studies … Continue reading
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My name is Lukas Allemann, I am new at the ORHELIA Project, and I’ll begin to write my PhD thesis here. I did my Master’s in Eastern European History and Russian Language and Literature at the University of Basel (Switzerland), … Continue reading
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People and Gold in Finnish Lapland
As a part of our advanced course on the anthropological study of resources in the North we screen a rare film tomorrow Thursday, 18 April at 16:30 in the Arctic Centre in Rovaniemi, in the POLARIUM room. Kultajoki – Gold … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Extractive Industries, Fennoscandia
Tagged Gold, human-environment relations, Lapland, mining
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‘Are glaciers ‘good to think with? – Julie Cruikshank in Rovaniemi
We are honoured and pleased to have Julie Cruikshank for the better part of the first week of April with us here in Rovaniemi. It won’t pay enough respect to her fame to introduce her here briefly. There is enough … Continue reading
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Tagged Canada, comparison, ethnography, indigenous knowledge
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Supporting Visual Anthropology, Tromsø
Dear readers, some of you may remember the film on Khanty fishing in the Yamal-Nenets Okrug, Siberia, Russia by an Estonian graduate, Janno Simm. That film “Autumn on Ob River” came out in 2004 as a masters work at the … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, Film, visual anthropology
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International conference about Indigenous Sacred Sites in the Arctic
The Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland will organize an international conference on indigenous sacred sites in the Arctic. The conference “Protecting the sacred: Recognition of Sacred Sites of Indigenous Peoples for Sustaining Nature and Culture in Northern and … Continue reading
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Tagged sacred sites
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We are teaching again, Rovaniemi
Advanced level studies: (ASPA2013) Identity on the Move: Sense of belonging to place and people January 15 – February 28, 2013 15.01.2013 – Introductory lecture (Dr. Anna Stammler-Gossmann, Dr. Nuccio Mazzullo, Dr. Stephan Dudeck) 24.01.- 29.01. 2013 – Anna Stammler-Gossmann … Continue reading
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