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

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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Meeting the world’s youngest farmers of native cattle in the world’s coldest inhabited place

Posted on November 6, 2015 by

During fieldwork for our Arc Ark research project, I walk the street in Sakkyryr, the central village of the Eveno-Bytantay Ulus (District) of the Sakha Republic, Yakutia, East Siberia. I stop to take a picture of two beautiful white cows … Continue reading →

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Beyond perception conference

Posted on May 7, 2015 by

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 … Continue reading →

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Why are Arctic animals like they are? FieldWorking together: anthropologists and geneticists search for an answer.

Posted on May 4, 2015 by

The joint field trip to a reindeer farm in Finland in April was the first experience of a collaborative work of social and natural scientists to understand processes of animal adaptation to extreme Arctic environments. The ‘Arctic Ark’ project (Arctic … Continue reading →

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