Dear all readers worldwide. The University of Lapland advertises internationally the position for a new director of the Arctic Centre in Rovaniemi. It is one of the leading research centres on Arctic Research with a fairly even composition of social and natural scientists. Our centre has been led for the last 15 years by Paula …
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The previous blog topic by Anna on humans and animals is very prominent in the programme of the upcoming super-interesting "Beyond Perception" conference at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. The conference takes key topics of Tim Ingold's work as starting points and explores in five sessions how researchers - from anthropology and also other disciplines …
The joint field trip to a reindeer farm in Finland in April was the first experience of a collaborative work of social and natural scientists to understand processes of animal adaptation to extreme Arctic environments. The ‘Arctic Ark’ project (Arctic Ark. Human-animal adaptation to the Arctic environment: natural and folk selection practices, 2015-2018) consists of …
Arctic Anthropology 