Hi everybody, this is my second appearance in this blog (see the first one https://arcticanthropology.org/2012/03/07/arctic-design-and-indigenous-knowledge/). I have just finished my summer fieldwork in Northern Lapland; so let me share my fresh thoughts. ...In 2006, in the beginning of August, I was sitting in a big bus, drowning in a blue soft seat, traveling from the …
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Hi everyone, I am a first time blogger here. Am based in Cambridge, UK, and doing a PhD there at the moment. I have come back from fieldwork some 6months ago. Before I went off to fieldwork in the northern Taiga of Siberia I made a little booklet with pictures of my home country to …
Even if logistic is not your thing, like in my case, you cannot avoid this challenge if you have to move in this northern area between Finland (Lapland) and Norway (Finnmark). After hours and hours of surfing in internet you come to one result – there is no public transport between Kirkenes and Finnish border …
Greetings from stormy Bugøynes ‘Havet (‘ocean’ – norweg.) is giving and taking’. Many people in the coastal area refer to ‘giving and taking’ properties of seawater. The coastal village lives from the sea – cod/salmon/crab fishing, ‘Arctic’ tourism. The King crab, introduced to the Barents Sea from the North Pacific Ocean the 1960s by Soviet …
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In many works on reindeer herding Komi people are considered as innovators who made reindeer herding not only a way of life but a profitable economy. One innovation that they did in the small village of Khongurei (see my fieldwork blog stephandudeck.wordpress.com) Nenets Autonomous Okrug, European Russian North, turned out to be rather counter-productive in …
Continue reading The cradle of fly-in/fly-out reindeer herding in Europe: greetings from Khongurei
Nina Meschtyb, postdoc research in our ORHELIA project, shares the following impressions from her fieldtrip Privet from Murmansk region. It is not very hot here – around 3-7 degree, but warm water was already switched off at houses for the summer period. I started my trip from Murmansk. The bus arrived late in the evening, …
Greetings from Bugøyfjord and Varanger fjord. I am now in Bugoynes (Pykeijä - fin.), in ‘pikku Suomi’ (little Finland). It is a fishing community with nearly 230 inhabitants. Almost everybody here speaks Finnish. The village is small, but several activities are going on here. There are actively operating factories (King crab farm, fish/reindeer meat processing …
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