Category: Indigenous Peoples

New Article on Extractive Industries in Indigenous Areas in Canada and Sweden

On By KGranqvistIn All, Extractive Industries, Fennoscandia, Fieldwork, Indigenous Peoples, North American North, Publications, Sámi, Theoretical Issues

New article "Effects of mining on reindeer/caribou populations and indigenous livelihoods: community-based monitoring by Sami reindeer herders in Sweden and First Nations in Canada" in The Polar Journal, Volume 4, Issue 1, 2014, by Thora Martina Herrmann, Per Sandström, Karin Granqvist, Natalie D'Astous, Jonas Vannar, Hugo Asselin, Nadia Saganash, John Mameamskum, George Guanish, Jean-Baptiste Loon & …

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Black Gold or black dirt in East Siberia? Arctic Extractive Industries PhD programme holds course in Neryungyi, Republic of Sakha Yakutia

On By FstammleIn Announcements, Extractive Industries, Fieldwork, Indigenous Peoples, Russian North, teaching

It was a fascinating week that the Extractive Industries Group spent in Neryungryi, Yakutia, one of the Soviet Union's youngest single industry towns, established in 1975. The Uarctic Thematic Network "Arctic Extractive Industries" thank the North Eastern Federal University, Faculty of Law and department for Northern Studies, for organising of a great course in our …

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”Shamanism, Symbolism and Culture”

On By FstammleIn All, Announcements, conferences, Guests, Indigenous Peoples, Sámi, Spirituality

”Shamanism, Symbolism and Culture. Role and function of art in the transmission of culture and cultural practices” The University of Lapland's Arctic Centre, Rovaniemi, Finland, is pleased to announce confirmation of a 2 day International Shamanism Seminar which will be held on 27th - 28th of November 2014. The key speaker is Mihaly Hoppal from …

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Arctic ecology, medecine and biology in Siberia

On By FstammleIn All, Announcements, conferences, Indigenous Peoples, Russian North2 Comments

Our colleagues from the Arctic Centre in Nadym, Yamal, organise from 17-19 November an interdisciplinary conference. These guys belong to a group of Russian researchers that truly believe in interdisciplinarity, and value a lot anthropological input from the West. If somebody is interested in taking part in that conference, you can write me a note …

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Sacred Sites of Indigenous Peoples: conference and discussion

On By FstammleIn All, conferences, Fennoscandia, Indigenous Peoples, North American North, Russian North, Sámi1 Comment

Several colleagues at Arctic Centre Rovaniemi teamed up with our partners from Inari from the Sámi educational centre to organise a workshop on sacred sites in the Arctic. This was the second in a series of meetings on the topic, the first one having been a conference last September in Pyhätunturi and Rovaniemi. As participants …

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ORHELIA’s trip to Lovozero

On By lukasallemannIn All, Fieldwork, Indigenous Peoples, oral history, Russian North, Sámi3 Comments

Last weekend our almost complete research team of the ORHELIA project (only Roza was unfortunately missing) went to Lovozero, the Sami ‘capital’ of Russian Lapland. It was probably my shortest field trip ever, with only one full day at our disposal and almost two entire days spent in a car. The main goal this time …

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Anthropological know how ‐ Fieldwork among Shamans and questions of research methodology

On By Stephan DudeckIn Announcements, Fieldwork, Guests, Indigenous Peoples, Publications, Russian North, Spirituality, teaching1 Comment

Tuesday April 29th 2014 and Wednesday April 30th 2014 Two open lectures by Prof. Tatiana Bulgakova, Herzen State Pedagogical University in St. Petersburg