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Cambridge Arctic teaching position open
Our colleagues from the Scott Polar Research Institute search for an Arctic human geography teacher for supervising their undergraduate and masters students. The funding is fixed term for 30 months. If someone is interested in working for one of the … Continue reading
Posted in All, Announcements, jobs, teaching
Tagged Arctic human geography, Cambridge, SPRI
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Do animal livelihoods in the Arctic suffer from global warming?
This was one of the questions covered in an interdisciplinary exhibition on the effects of global warming and melting permafrost in Yakutia, on display in the Hokkaido museum of northern peoples. The exhibition with the title Thawing Earth – Global … Continue reading
Posted in All, Arctic Ark: Human-animal relations, Fieldwork, Indigenous Peoples, Russian North
Tagged exhibition, global warming, Yakutia
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Cambridge job offer, Russian Arctic Studies
Today we pass on the job advert of colleagues at the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge. They search for a new person responsible for the world’s top Russian Arctic science library outside of Russia. The SPRI Russian library is really … Continue reading
Domestication revisited?
Domestication is by most used as a term for the biologically traceable subordination of animals under human control. But anthropologists have for long argued that there are also social definitions of domestication. Very influential was the one by Tim Ingold … Continue reading
Posted in All, Arctic Ark: Human-animal relations, conferences, Theoretical Issues
Tagged cattle, domestication, environment, horses, reindeer
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Saami rights lecture, Rovaniemi
Our colleague Klemetti Näkkäläjärvi will give a lecture this Friday at 13.15 at the University of Lapland main building, with a title that would sound in english something like “rights and obligations of the Saami community”. Klemetti served as the … Continue reading
Posted in All, Announcements, Fennoscandia, Indigenous Peoples, Sámi
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Job for Arctic Anthropologists in Europe? Oulu
The University of Oulu is strengthening their Arctic profile and have announced several jobs. Let’s hope they will hire anthropologists eagerly! It depends on how many good anthropologists will apply, so, dear colleagues – go for it! Tenure Track Positions … Continue reading
Job: Arctic Sustainability, resilience and climate change
Fancy a career in Canada? If your are suitably qualified, you can try this one. They claim they want a special focus on indigenous knowledge too: SSHRC CANADA RESEARCH CHAIR TIER 2 ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN ARCTIC SUSTAINABILITY, RESILIENCE AND CLIMATE … Continue reading
Posted in All, Announcements, Indigenous Peoples, jobs, North American North
Tagged Canadian Arctic, indigenous knowledge, Manitoba, work
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