Tag Archives: Lapland

People and Gold in Finnish Lapland

Posted on April 17, 2013 by

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 →

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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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Meeting old and new friends in Inari

Posted on August 27, 2012 by

For us from the Anthropology Research Team here in Rovaniemi the Sámi Cultural Centre SAJOS in Inari became a place where we regularly meet friends from the indigenous movement in Russia. Galina Platova from the Association of Nenets people “Yasavey” … 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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