"Multimodal anthropology gives a name to something that many of us have actually been doing for long, but maybe as side projects", says Christine Moderbacher, soon new Professor of multimodal anthropology at UiT in Norway. In this respect the 29 September 2025 made history in Arctic Anthropology: The Arctic University of Norway (Tromsø) opens a …
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Our colleague Peter Finke will launch a new project on the production, processing and trade of food in Kazakhstan. The project offers a really generous 4 full years of funding, including an entire year of fieldwork. The rest of the time the candidates would live in Zurich with a Swiss salary working in Prof Finke's …
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Within Finland the new ethical guidelines for research involving the Sámi people in Finland have been widely announced, starting with their launch in June 2024. The guidelines also state that they can be applied across all areas where Sámi reside, i.e. all of Sápmi. Starting at noon Finnish time on the 19th september, at the …
Continue reading new Finnish Sámi research ethics: a reading circle & discussion 19 Sep 2024
by Florian Stammler, Asiarpa Paviasen and Tupaarnaq Kreutzmann-Kleist What connects dams, hydropower, green energy, agriculture, sheep farming and Inuit in Greenland? in the front the water supply pipe leading to the tiny turbine house of the micro-hydropower plant supplying two sheep farms in South Greenland Inuit are better known in the popular and anthropological literature …
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Some may remember our entry here with Erik Kielsen about the disastrous early snowfall and freezing event in South Greenland in late 2023. This summer fieldwork in the WIRE project there is on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of modern Inuit animal husbandry, and I am hosted at the Qorlortup Itinnera sheep farm, which …
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Those of our readers who read Finnish may have seen this already, but this event may be of some wider relevance: https://www.ulapland.fi/events/Antropologi-Tim-Ingoldin-kenttamuistiinpanojen-luovutustilaisuus-Sevettijarven-koululla-/1980/ce07e180-f03c-44f9-9533-c3ddfa59d2f1 Tim Ingold returns his fieldnotes from the early 1970s back to the archive of the Skolt Sámi, who were resettled from the Petsamo area in Murmansk Oblast in the 1940s to the Sevettijärvi …
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Florian Stammler and Erik Kielsen Much has been written already about the losses of reindeer due to icing-over, or rain on snow events, among reindeer herders in Siberia and elsewhere. The climate seasonality is changing and this comes with its challenges in the Arctic for humans and animals alike. For example, in our research site …
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