Category Archives: Arctic Ark: Human-animal relations

Finnish Academy Arctic call research consortium between LUKE Jokioinen and Arctic anthropology research team.
The project studies the specific genome of Arctic animal species and how human cultures influence it

Do animal livelihoods in the Arctic suffer from global warming?

Posted on March 14, 2019 by

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 →

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Domestication revisited?

Posted on February 23, 2019 by

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 →

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Job for Arctic Anthropologists in Europe? Oulu

Posted on December 20, 2018 by

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 →

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Keeping Arctic animals makes sense!

Posted on November 21, 2018 by

The Arctic Ark team has presented their work of the last four years in human-animal relations in the Arctic at the Finnish Academy’s final Arktiko Seminar. Studying people’s relations to their domestic pastoral animals in the Arctic using approaches from … Continue reading →

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Oktoberfest Munich – is it all about human-horse relations?

Posted on October 5, 2018 by

Why would we write about the Oktoberfest on this blog? It turns out that there is an aspect of it that is closely related to the interest in one of our current projects – Arctic Ark – where we are … Continue reading →

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International conference on “Local horse breeding in Russia in the past, present and future”, June 22-24, 2018

Posted on June 29, 2018 by

It is worth travelling north in mid June to experience one of the wonders of the Arctic. It is polar day when the sun disappears only for a very short time under the horizon and the sunset is fading into … Continue reading →

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Problems of gigantic reindeer slaughter plan for Yamal-Nenets nomads

Posted on September 22, 2016 by

The recent announcement by the Yamal government to artificially reduce the number of reindeer in the Yamal-Nenets Okrug by a quarter of a million animals has caused a discussion in Russia that has now spilled over to the international arena. … Continue reading →

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