It's a high profile conference taking place in St Petersburg, with support by the Arctic Council, RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs, RF Ministry of Culture and the Russian Geographical Society. For us arctic anthropologists, it's nice to see that this conference has cultural communication in its name. The organisers understand under cultural communication all activities …
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Santa anthropology? Santa Claus link collection
Where would be a better place than at the Arctic Circle to establish a research unit on the ethnography and social anthropology of Santa Clauses? When we think about Santa, we mostly get the image of this Coca-Cola dressed red and white person riding on Rudolf the reindeer bringing presents. But in fact there is …
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Lectures and events, autumn 2012, anthropology research team, Rovaniemi
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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Reflections on a Visit to the ‘Tree of Memory’: Gail Fondahl, 13 Nov 2012, Arctic Centre
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Notes on hospitality, performance and potlatch: University of Yakutsk, Russia
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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What’s the difference between science and religion? Thoughts about indigenous knowledge systems
Several of our anthropology research team members just came from a lecture by Prof Sandra Harding from UCLA on different science and knowledge systems, which was really inspiring. It was part of an Indigenous Knowledge Systems Workshop here at the Arctic Centre, the other keynote lecturers being Elina Helander Renvall and Suvi Ronkainen. Harding placed …
Human agents or resources in Arctic extractive industries?
Human Resources in Arctic extractive industries - a PhD course under the Uarctic Thematic Network "People and the Extractive Industries" It was a small but extremely diverse group that we got together between September 10-16 in St John's, the capital of Newfoundland, Canada. The participants to the course came from 5 different institutions and 7 …
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