Research partnerships & indigennous peoples

The anthropology research team invites everybody to a lecture and discussion about research partnerships of indigenous peoples with scientists! Monday, 22 August, 14:00 Thule meeting room, Arktikum building Rovaniemi The occasion is a visit by Jill Taylor-Hollings from the Department of Anthropology of the University of Alberta, who will give a talk on Learning about …

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The Anthropology Research Team welcomes its new interns!

The Anthropology Research Team welcomes two more students who have joined us from the first week of July in order to do an internship at the Arctic Centre. They are Anne-Marie Lapointe from Laval University, Québec, Canada, and Trevelyan S. Wing from Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA. At the moment they are both in Inari …

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Dolphins enter Akureyri port as Kulan conducts blessing at ICASS congress

During the recent ICASS congress a good friend of the anthropology research team, Alexandr Artemiev from Yakutia, called Kulan, blessed the 396 delegates during the banquet with a ceremony. Kulan is a representative of the new Sakha spiritual movement that unites an animistic worldview rooted in Sakha shamanic spirituality with elements of a global spiritual …

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ICASS VII congress Akureyri, Iceland

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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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 …

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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 …

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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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