Author: Anna Stammler-Gossmann

PRACTICING SHAMANISM: WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A SHAMAN?

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Learn more about shamanism! Shaman traditions, in their hundreds of different forms are still alive today. Arctic Centre hosts two Sami shamanic practitioners from Kola Peninsula. You have a unique possibility to learn more about spiritual practices and sacred places, to understand the controversy around the shamanism and enjoy a drum ritual. Everybody is warmly …

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Why are Arctic animals like they are? FieldWorking together: anthropologists and geneticists search for an answer.

On By Anna Stammler-GossmannIn Announcements, Fieldwork, Human-animal relations

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 …

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