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 events" page of this blog Unless otherwise announced, all events to be held in the …
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In case any of you will be at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in San Francisco, please consider attending our panel: "Arctic Crossings: Labour, Capital, and Locality in the Circumpolar North" Saturday, November 17, 4-5:45pm, Continental 9 (Hilton San Francisco) Trans-Beringian Crossings: Informal Meshworks and Evasive Space In North Pacific Borderlands - Tobias S …
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Is it possible to turn your field data into a film with very moderate technical skills and no budget? We do not expect our first effort at a documentary to be award winning. But we started in October with a workshop with editing of Anna’s fieldwork video records in Windows Movie Maker. Now we will …
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Series of lectures and documentary films, November 16 – 29, 2012 by Arctic Anthropology Team (ACCESS project Arctic Climate Change, Economy and Society, Dr. Anna Stammler-Gossmann) Dr. Anna Stammler-Gossmann (Arctic Centre, Finland). Lecture: ‘Domesticated’ fish: what is behind our salmon steak? Presentation of the fieldwork documentary ‘Fresh Norwegian Salmon: Farmed and monitored’, 9 min. November …
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What is a potlatch? Barbara Miller, author of Cultural Anthropology (2007), describes it as "a feast in which the host lavishes the guests with abundant quantities of the best food and many gifts." That's what I felt reminded of at a recent conference on "science and education in the 21st century" [couldn't have been broader, …
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