Some of our team were recently at the Jokkmokk winter conference, which is held in connection to the famous Jokkmokk winter market, an important event in the Sámi yearly cycle for the last 400 years. The Jokkmokk winter market has been held already more than 400 years. Now mining comes closer to this place too, …
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Simeon Buckley. Presentation in the Arctic Centre: Kangaroo Burgers and Supporting Indigenous People
(Simeon Buckley is a master’s student from RMIT University (Melbourne, Australia) and is working as a research assistant to Anna Stammler-Gossmann on a research project - Coastal communities of the Barents region and marine resources use: Seascape and fishing rights. I chose the topic of kangaroo harvesting as it is an interesting comparison to traditional …
We are teaching again, Rovaniemi
Advanced level studies: (ASPA2013) Identity on the Move: Sense of belonging to place and people January 15 – February 28, 2013 15.01.2013 - Introductory lecture (Dr. Anna Stammler-Gossmann, Dr. Nuccio Mazzullo, Dr. Stephan Dudeck) 24.01.- 29.01. 2013 – Anna Stammler-Gossmann Transboundary identity - Indigenous identity: Between transnational – national – local Spatial identity - Search …
Siberia films online Finnish TV
Finnish State TV Yle has been sending a number of excellent documentaries on and / or by northern indigenous people recently. You can watch them usually for three weeks longer online. Today there will be the screening on YLE TEEMA TV of Lapsui/Lehmuskallio's famous "Seven Songs from the Tundra", the world's first fiction film in …
Welcoming Simeon Buckley at the Anthropology Research Team
Hi my name is Simeon Buckley or (Sim) I am a new staff member here at the Arctic Centre. I am working as a research assistant to Anna Stammler-Gossmann. I am working on a research project which is a comparative study looking at Coastal communities of the Barents region and marine resources use: Seascape and …
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Our first talk in 2013: Joel Robbins: Beyond the Suffering Subject: Anthropology, Rights, and the Comparative Study of the Good
The Anthropological Research Team is happy to announce the visit of Joel Robbins, one of the world’s leading scholars in the anthropology of religion and cultural change and soon-to-be professor at Cambridge to the Arctic Center. On Thursday 17 Jan. 14:30-16:00, in the Borealis lecture room 313, Joel Robbins will talk about his subject of …
Adventure Siberia, 90 minutes documentary
TV channel ZDF (second German state channel) screened over the holiday a two-part documentary on Siberia and the fascination that this huge land mass has had on researchers, business people and other adventurers. The programme can be watched online via the media library of the TV channel as PART ONE and PART TWO. The film …
