Category Archives: Sámi

Entries related to Sámi research and issues. All entries here should also be categorised under ‘indigenous peoples’, and most of them ‘Fennoscandia’ probably.

Mining or golfing? Or both? Or nothing? – A perspective to mining in the north of Sweden

Posted on June 5, 2013 by

In a small newspaper named LKAB Framtid Luleå [LKAB Future Luleå] with a special February issue this year published by the Swedish mining company Loussavaara Kirunavaara Aktiebolag (LKAB), can an article with the headline “Critics are wrong: ‘We need more mines’” … Continue reading →

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New book about the history of the Sámi from Russia during Soviet times – online open access

Posted on June 5, 2013 by

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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Effects of Mining on Reindeer Herding Grounds in Jokkmokk in Sweden

Posted on March 12, 2013 by

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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Mining and local people in the North

Posted on February 18, 2013 by

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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Sámi herding, Utsjoki, Lemmenjoki Finland TV

Posted on December 30, 2012 by

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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Lectures and events, autumn 2012, anthropology research team, Rovaniemi

Posted on November 21, 2012 by

Open invitation to all, academic and practitioner participants – no RSVP required. Additional posters and announcements for the different events will be posted at the door of the venue. Please see also separate programmes and announcements on the “lectures and … Continue reading →

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We are teaching again (September – December)

Posted on October 29, 2012 by

Arctic Studies Program ASPB1104 Peoples, Culture and Identities of the Arctic http://www.uarctic.org/members.aspx?m=790 Anna Stammler-Gossmann (September – October) The concept of indigeneity: From definitions to norms and to identity (object of international law; between transnational and local; who is indigenous?) North … Continue reading →

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Workshops series on Identity, Politics and Place in relation to indigenous peoples in Leipzig.

Posted on June 28, 2012 by

Friday 22 June 2012 I participated to a workshop in Leipzig, at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, on the theme: “Identity, Politics, Place and Representation”. The workshop had been preceded the day before (21.06.2012) by a public lecture given … Continue reading →

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Murmansk region fieldwork oral history

Posted on June 15, 2012 by

Nina Meschtyb, postdoc research in our ORHELIA project, shares the following impressions from her fieldtrip Privet from Murmansk region. It is not very hot here – around 3-7 degree, but warm water was already switched off at houses for the … Continue reading →

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Terhi Vuojala-Magga and Stephan Dudeck breaching the image of the North as a home and as a field

Posted on April 21, 2012 by

Stephan Dudeck visited Terhi Vuojala-Magga in the Inari region of Finnish Sápmi (Sámi home area) two times during this year.  The first visit was in January in Kuttura – a Sami reindeer herders´ forest village of six houses in the … Continue reading →

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