As part of our long term partnership with Japanese Arctic anthropologists, we are part of the ARCSII - funded Research Exchange Programme, led by Hiroki Takakura of CNEAS, Tohoku University. In the upcoming Finnish-Japanese seminar in Kobe “Well-being of Migrants in the Arctic and Asia”, our team member Ria Adams is going to talk about …
Continue reading Well-being of Migrants in the Arctic and Asia, online seminar 13 October
Welcome to join us for the opening of the reindeer slaughter season 2023 in Finnish Lapland! A group of scientists, reindeer herders, animal practitioners, managers and economists are going to meet at our premises in Arctic Centre, Arktikum building, Polarium room on the 31 August 2023 at 10:00. We will discuss current issues in reindeer …
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A Russian vessel named "Saami" in a Norwegian wharf in Kirkenes in June 2023: the borderland reality on the ground continues as a lived experience even at times of political conflict A recent trip to Kirkenes and the surroundings was really revealing in many ways. Of course for someone who has worked most of the …
Continue reading East Finnmark – interethnic borderland now and then
Prof John Ziker introduces his research and plans in the European Arctic. The anthropology team is pleased to announce a rather spontaneous talk by our visiting professor at the Arctic Centre in Rovaniemi for the summer. John chair of Anthropology at Boise State University, Idaho, USA. Since the 1990s he has worked among Arctic hunters …
In the European Arctic Midsummer nowadays marks mostly the start of the summer holidays. But at the roots of this big holiday, celebrated on or close to the longest day of the year, are pre-christian traditions. Asking from the spirits for a good harvest and for protection from evil forces were at the centre of …
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We all know that the current situation with Russia and Ukraine is rapidly changing a lot of the ways and values on which we have been relying in the past decades for our everyday lives. But recently I was surprised when discussing the impacts with Karoliina Majuri, a reindeer herder and colleague here at Lapland …
Continue reading The influence of world politics in the forest of Northern Lapland
Many of you may have heard about the resistance of Sámi people against the Alta-Kautokeino hydroelectric dam in the 1970s-1980s. Even though the dam was built, the Sámi resistance including hunger strikes was hugely influential not only for indigenous rights movement among the Sámi, but also worldwide. In a way we can trace the impact …
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