Arctic Social Sciences are getting more and more diverse, and we were very pleased to see so many disciplines presented at the recent International Congress of Arctic Social Scientists in Akureyri, Iceland, from 22-26 June 2011. This was the biggest congress of this kind ever, with 450 participants, and although northern anthropology was a very …
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Internship Report, Anna Maria Manz
Internship at the Arctic Centre, Feedback by Anna-Maria Manz In October and November 2010 I made a four-week internship at the Anthropology Team in the Arctic Centre in Rovaniemi. I am glad that I may share my experiences and impressions on this new online platform for Arctic Anthropology. In this context I also want to …
ORHELIA: ORal History of Empires by Elders in the Arctic
Hurraa! The anthropology resaerch team is VERY pleased and positively surprised about the big honour to have got a significant research grant by the research council for culture and society at the Academy of Finland. What will this be about? This research contributes to developing a comparative history of relations between states and their remote …
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Movement in the Arctic: World Routes
World Routes is the name of a conference on movement in the Arctic organised by the University of Tartu, department of anthropology. This was a very nice example of an intimate group of people engaging for two days in a very focused way in discussions on what it means to be on the move in …
publication announcement: Arktis
Several members of our group have contributed to a new major interdisciplinary social science volume on the Arctic, published by the well-known German journal Osteuropa. Anthropologically oriented chapters are the ones by Anna Stammler-Gossmann, Florian Stammler, Elena Khlinovskaya-Rockhill, Tobias Holzlehner, and also Stephen Fortesque and Indra Overland. Unfortunately the volume is in German only, but …
Barents development, Kirovsk, Northwest Russia: workshop
Our colleagues from the sustainable development research group at the Arctic Centre jointly with the Institute for Economic Studies of the Kola Science Centre RAS organise a workshop on "Politics of Development in the Barents Region", May 17-18. The anthropology research team of the Arctic Centre will be represented there by Anna Stammler-Gossmann. Very wisely, …
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Spy or Kin? Stephan Dudeck’s lecture at Arctic Centre
Many of us who have worked in Russia, but also in many other places, have experienced how easy it is to get trapped in a role that we get ascribed by people in the field. What is the consequence of this perceived roles for our fieldwork, the participant aspect in the live of our friends …
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