A story about my failed attempt of shooting a wild reindeer, and of a successful hunt for petrol Yarkolana (Nikolay) Khorotetto, spring 2001 This story is dedicated to my friend Yarkolana (Nikolay) Khorotetto, who was tragically found dead (link in Russian) in the tundra, probably killed just after my birthday in 2019. This story takes …
Continue reading Fieldwork story Stammler 2: Yamal, hunting for petrol and a wild reindeer
participation over observation is a health risk This was my first cold night ever in a chum in the Yamal tundra. It's a story of 'lesson learned' early on in my fieldwork practice, that you need not only to be keen to participate in people's life, but also be a good observer for the details. …
Continue reading Fieldwork story Stammler 1: Yamal, participation over observation is a health risk
I have been doing fieldwork with Yamal Nenets reindeer herders for more than 20 years now, and have noticed this year a change in their perception of the changes happening around them, maybe partially reinforced by corona virus. Be it industrial expansion, the icing-over of pastures, outbreaks of diseases, methane holes in the tundra, the …
Continue reading “CCC” – corona, climate change and conspiracy in the Yamal tundra
Our anthropology colleague Prof Hannu Heikkinen from Oulu just sent this around. Seems to be a rather rare opportunity for a permanent job in Arctic Anthropology! Arctic Interactions (ArcI) is a programme designed to achieve global leadership in the area of “Understanding and mitigating global change in the Arctic through fundamental studies at the interface between …
Since my very first visit to the Netherlands, I have been surprised at the interest of Dutch people in one of the islands in the North of Russia, which they call Nova Zembla, from the Russian name Novaya Zemlya (“New Land”). This topic of Novaya Zemlya drew attention since the time of the first Dutch …
Our colleagues organise an interesting workshop during the Arctic Science Summit Week in Akureyri. If you go there anyway, this is surely worth checking out: We would like to invite you to the 2-days gender-workshop during ASSW 2020 where natural sciences and social sciences share their experiences. IASC & IASSA Workshop Gender in Polar Research …
12–13 June 2020 Khanty reindeer herder The Arctic is a region that is commonly associated with animals. It is typical for people in the south to imagine (sub)arctic inhabitants living together with polar bears and reindeer (if not with penguins). Indeed, for thousands of years, human life in the boreal regions has been dependent on …
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