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Category Archives: Fennoscandia
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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Encountering ethnographical and archaeological research in Siberia by Francis Joy
My first visit to Siberia to Irkutsk as a participant in the 20th International Symposium which was organized by Irkutsk State Technical University, 27-31st of May 2013. This years theme was ‘Integrating Archaeological and Ethnographical Research’. A picture below of … 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, Fennoscandia, Extractive Industries
Tagged Lapland, mining, Gold, human-environment relations
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Effects of Mining on Reindeer Herding Grounds in Jokkmokk in Sweden
Prospecting for minerals and stones has exploded in Sweden. Many foreign prospecting and/or mining companies come to Sweden in search for a new Klondike - even though in a more modern “suit” than the historical one at Dawson City in Canada at … Continue reading
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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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Mining and local people in the North
Some of our team were recently at the Jokkmokk winter conference, which is held in connection to the famous Jokkmokk winter market, an important event in the Sámi yearly cycle for the last 400 years. The Jokkmokk winter market has … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, Lapland, mining
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Sámi herding, Utsjoki, Lemmenjoki Finland TV
For those interested in Sámi reindeer herding in northern Finland, and Utsjoki, and especially those who know German, you may be interested to watch a programme in the German second channel ZDF that they were sending for the end of … Continue reading
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“Electronic Memory of the Arctic” – conference on cultural communication in the circumpolar world
It’s a high profile conference taking place in St Petersburg, with support by the Arctic Council, RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs, RF Ministry of Culture and the Russian Geographical Society. For us arctic anthropologists, it’s nice to see that this … Continue reading
