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Tag Archives: Nenets
RAIPON indigenous peoples association new president
For those interested, the Russian Indigenous Peoples Association (RAIPON) got a new president a week ago, at a very important time in the organisation’s biography, because it had been closed down for formal reasons by Russian authorities late last year. … Continue reading
Posted in All, Extractive Industries, Indigenous Peoples, Russian North
Tagged Nenets, RAIPON, Yamal
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The Snow Terminology in Nenets
Posted in All, Indigenous Peoples, oral history, Russian North
Tagged Nenets, snow termonology, traditional knowledge
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Siberia films online Finnish TV
Finnish State TV Yle has been sending a number of excellent documentaries on and / or by northern indigenous people recently. You can watch them usually for three weeks longer online. Today there will be the screening on YLE TEEMA … Continue reading
Posted in All, Announcements, Indigenous Peoples, Russian North
Tagged Nenets, TV programme, Yamal
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Singing the Nganasan bear dance song in Hamburg.
On the first week of October the Institut für Finnougristik/Uralistik of HamburgUniversity (Germany) held the 4th International Conference on Samoyedology. It was nice to see many familiar and well known Russian, Hungarian and German linguists who do their research on … Continue reading
Posted in All, Announcements, Indigenous Peoples, oral history, Russian North
Tagged Nenets, Samoyedology, Uralic languages
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Anastasia Lapsui and Markku Lehmusskallio – guests of the team in Rovaniemi
We all know and admire the films by Markku Lehmuskallio and Anastasia Lapsui about the life and history of the Nenets people. On the 30th August 2012 they came to the Arcrtic Centre in Rovaniemi for a preview of their … Continue reading
Posted in All, Guests, Indigenous Peoples, oral history, Spirituality, Theoretical Issues
Tagged Film, Nenets, Yamal
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Meeting old and new friends in Inari
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
Posted in Announcements, Fennoscandia, Guests, Indigenous Peoples, oral history, Russian North
Tagged conference, indigenous people, Lapland, Nenets, Orhelia, reindeer herding
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Reindeer herder without legs continues to migrate on the tundra.
Does every person who grew up in a curtain place have roots like a tree? Well, trees have roots, which go very deeply to the ground to get nutrition. A human being been has other roots which connect him or … Continue reading
Posted in Fieldwork, Indigenous Peoples, oral history, Russian North
Tagged Nenets, reindeer herding, Yamal
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The cradle of fly-in/fly-out reindeer herding in Europe: greetings from Khongurei
In many works on reindeer herding Komi people are considered as innovators who made reindeer herding not only a way of life but a profitable economy. One innovation that they did in the small village of Khongurei (see my fieldwork … Continue reading
Oral history, European Nenets
Stephan Dudeck greets us from his fieldsite in the European Nenets Autonomous Okrug, North West Russia. He is there for starting the ORHELIA project life history work. He has put some great impressions and a very nice first round of … Continue reading
Posted in All, Fieldwork, Indigenous Peoples, oral history, Russian North, Spirituality
Tagged Nenets
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Field Work in Western Siberia, Roza Laptander
Starting to the tundra from Aksarka’s central square Young generation of reindeer herders from Yamal As a member of the Oral History Anthropology Research Team I am now doing do my field work in Western Siberia, in a little village … Continue reading
