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 …
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Research partnerships & indigennous peoples
The anthropology research team invites everybody to a lecture and discussion about research partnerships of indigenous peoples with scientists! Monday, 22 August, 14:00 Thule meeting room, Arktikum building Rovaniemi The occasion is a visit by Jill Taylor-Hollings from the Department of Anthropology of the University of Alberta, who will give a talk on Learning about …
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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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Dolphins enter Akureyri port as Kulan conducts blessing at ICASS congress
During the recent ICASS congress a good friend of the anthropology research team, Alexandr Artemiev from Yakutia, called Kulan, blessed the 396 delegates during the banquet with a ceremony. Kulan is a representative of the new Sakha spiritual movement that unites an animistic worldview rooted in Sakha shamanic spirituality with elements of a global spiritual …
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Internship Report, Anna Maria Manz
Internship at the Arctic Centre, Feedback by Anna-Maria Manz In October and November 2010 I made a four-week internship at the Anthropology Team in the Arctic Centre in Rovaniemi. I am glad that I may share my experiences and impressions on this new online platform for Arctic Anthropology. In this context I also want to …
Spy or Kin? Stephan Dudeck’s lecture at Arctic Centre
Many of us who have worked in Russia, but also in many other places, have experienced how easy it is to get trapped in a role that we get ascribed by people in the field. What is the consequence of this perceived roles for our fieldwork, the participant aspect in the live of our friends …
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Internship feedback by Natalia Bochkareva, 23.2-8.4.2011
The reason why I decided to write the feedback on my internship period is not just gratitude to all people who contributed to my successful work and research, but it is meant also so that other students could experience the great internship period as I did. During our studies at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, …
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