Please also see the comments to this post, interesting! Surely most of us have followed the terrible news about drowning refugees desperate to reach Europe - and many may have thought that "well all that's what the poor people have to cope with there in the South, Sicily, Turkey, Greece." But guess what: some refugees …
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Transience and immigration in the Svalbard Archipelago
ArcticAnthropology is proud to present a guest blog from Ben Corwin on life, migration and relation to the environment on one of the Arctic's northernmost human settlements: Svalbard. Ben Corwin is a Senior at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA. He is majoring in mathematics and biology with concentration in environmental studies. Though Williams College …
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Arctic Ark: new project on animal breeds, species and human practices in the Arctic
We are very happy to announce that we started working on a new project funded within the Finnish Academy's Arctic programme, called Arctic Ark. Human-animal adaptations to the Arctic environment: natural and folk selection practices (Arc-Ark) The Arctic is often seen as a biodiversity-poor region, where animal husbandry is solely based on herding of reindeer …
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Кольские саами и антропологи Арктики потеряли большого друга
С большой скорбью сообщаем сегодня о грустной новости. Скончался Лейф Рантала, в течение многих лет являющийся ключевой фигурой саамских исследований в Университете Лапландии. С самого начала существования исследовательской группы антропологов в Рованиеми Лейф был нашим благосклонным сподвижником и незаменимым советчиком, время от времени участвуя с большим интересом в наших дискуссиях. Особенно, когда дело касалось российских …
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Kola Sámi research and Arctic Anthropology lost a great friend
We are sad to spread the following news today: Leif Rantala, long time at the University of Lapland the grand old man of Sámi research, has passed away. From the very start of the anthropology team in Rovaniemi, he has been a benevolent, albeit quiet supporter, and joined with great interest some of our discussions. …
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New Article on Extractive Industries in Indigenous Areas in Canada and Sweden
New article "Effects of mining on reindeer/caribou populations and indigenous livelihoods: community-based monitoring by Sami reindeer herders in Sweden and First Nations in Canada" in The Polar Journal, Volume 4, Issue 1, 2014, by Thora Martina Herrmann, Per Sandström, Karin Granqvist, Natalie D'Astous, Jonas Vannar, Hugo Asselin, Nadia Saganash, John Mameamskum, George Guanish, Jean-Baptiste Loon & …
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Sacred Sites of Indigenous Peoples: conference and discussion
Several colleagues at Arctic Centre Rovaniemi teamed up with our partners from Inari from the Sámi educational centre to organise a workshop on sacred sites in the Arctic. This was the second in a series of meetings on the topic, the first one having been a conference last September in Pyhätunturi and Rovaniemi. As participants …
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