A Nightless Night in Inari, by Trevelyan Wing I recently attended the “Ijahis Idja (Nightless Night): Voices of the Earth” festival in Anár/Inari, Finland, hosted on the campus of the Sámi Education Institute. The event brought together talented musicians of various indigenous populations from the Nenets and Tuvans of Siberia to the Sámi, and drew …
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More news from Yamal, West Siberia
Where: Yamal Peninsula, West Siberia Who: fieldwork by Nina Meschtyb, text by Nina Meschtyb & Florian Stammler When: July 2011 Anthropologist Nina Meschtyb who joined the anthropology research team in Rovaniemi came back from the field in West Siberia with news about technological change, the social impact of oil and gas industry, and the perspective …
Sharing thoughts from fieldwork
Terve! Bures! My name is Anne-Marie Lapointe, and I am currently doing fieldwork in the Sámi community of Inari, Finland under the supervision of Dr Nuccio Mazzullo. I am a socio-cultural anthropology student at Laval University in Quebec City, Canada. The aim of my research project in Inari is to look at the dynamics between …
News from Anár/Inari!
Bures! My name is Trevelyan Wing, and I am currently conducting a research project in Inari, Finland, under the supervision of Dr. Nuccio Mazzullo. My fieldwork focuses on how environmental issues, related to climate change, are affecting Sámi reindeer herders and the overall institution of reindeer herding. I will be interviewing a number of herders …
The Anthropology Research Team welcomes its new interns!
The Anthropology Research Team welcomes two more students who have joined us from the first week of July in order to do an internship at the Arctic Centre. They are Anne-Marie Lapointe from Laval University, Québec, Canada, and Trevelyan S. Wing from Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA. At the moment they are both in Inari …
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ORHELIA message from the field in Yamal, April 2011
Florian (I) is currently with colleague Roza Laptander doing fieldwork in Yamal for a project called ORHELIA. The acronym ORHELIA stand for "Oral Histories of Elders in the Arctic" and is a project that looks at how remote northerners have experienced the historical and cultural changes of the 20th century in their own biographies. I was …
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