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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Last week, an advertising campaign by Visit Finland and Finnair produced images of Sàmi in traditional clothes dancing around the fire during a shamanic ritual in the tent. In discussions following the publication, many rejected the representation of Sàmi in that video, not least because Sàmi were depicted rather dirty-looking (“Likaiset lappalaiset”, YLE 17-09-2015, Supposedly, …
The Symposium "Beyond perception 15" was organised in Aberdeen by the department postgraduate researchers and postgraduate students to celebrate the work of Tim Ingold. The aim was to explore the ways in which anthropologists can find new avenues of approaching the most fundamental questions that our discipline deals with: our relations to the environment and …
Continue reading Anthropology beyond dichotomies? Thoughts after “Beyond Perception 2015”
The “nomadic” Ph.D. Summer School “Field Experiences in Northwest Russia” (FENOR) has been a full success After two weeks of extensive travelling and working together on different aspects of Northern Anthropology, our very diverse group has grown into a tight-knit team. At the end of our school it was hard to believe that most of …
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The European University in St Petersburg launches a new masters programme on northern Anthropology! The Programme is coordinated by Nikolay Vakhtin, with courses read by Elena Lyarskaya, Veronika Simonova, Alla Bolotova and Stephan Dudeck, all of whom are fluent in English and Russian. Courses taught include general anthropological courses on theory, methods and ideas in …
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 …
