ORHELIA message from the field in Yamal, April 2011

Florian (I)  is currently with colleague Roza Laptander doing fieldwork in Yamal for a project called ORHELIA.  The acronym ORHELIA stand for "Oral Histories of Elders in the Arctic" and is a project that looks at how remote northerners have experienced the historical and cultural changes of the 20th century in their own biographies. I was …

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Internship feedback by Natalia Bochkareva, 23.2-8.4.2011

The reason why I decided to write the feedback on my internship period is not just gratitude to all people who contributed to my successful work and research, but it is meant also so that other students could experience the great internship period as I did. During our studies at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, …

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Thursday, April 7, 2011 at 10pm in Thule room, presentation of Jodie Asselin, from University of Alberta

We would like to invite you to a presentation by Jodie Asselin (University of Alberta, Canada) that will take place on Thursday, April 7, 2011 at 10pm in Thule room. Jodie Asselin is an anthropologist who is working on perception and use of forest by different interest groups in the Yukon Territory, Canada. Talk Title: …

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Notes from the Arctic Dialogue conference 2011, Bodo, Norway

If we think about the impacts of extractive industries in the Arctic, for us anthropologists this means first and foremost looking at what industry does on the ground with people for whom the places on top of the deposits are their homeland. As anthropologists, we don't need to be told that cultural, social effects and …

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