"I just looked at the land and started building". Our group of guests from Norway and Finland in our NAPA project "empowering green transition from the grassroots" sits around a coffee table with a gorgeous view to the fjord dotted with icebergs. The answer of Lars Nielsen from Kangerluarsorujuk to a question how he made …
Category: Fieldwork
A bit of history: the changing profile of this blog
Dear readers and followers you may have noticed that in the last years, activity on this blog has become less, while the content of what has been posted has become more focused. In this text we just want to spell out this change and make this orientation clearer, for future posts as well. When we …
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When Cold Freezes Time
Climate change is often described as a slow and uneven process. In recent years, winters in the European North have felt milder, or at least less persistent. Minus 30 might last a day or two, then ease again. Over time, the cold became something manageable, something to be endured for a few days without rearranging …
Autonomy and Self-Sufficiency in South Greenland – a multimodal ethnographic storymap
With all the difficult geopolitical news related to Greenland, the obvious anthropological gaze on autonomy is from the ground, based on people's lived experience on land and sea. Together with Angaartaaq Janussen and Philip Burgess, we have tried to document such a unique story using multiple modes including text, sound, video and imagery, which you …
Multimodal Anthropology in the Arctic: history & future
"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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Vacancies for PhD candidates, working in Kazakhstan
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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new Finnish Sámi research ethics: a reading circle & discussion 19 Sep 2024
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 …
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