For those interested in Sámi reindeer herding in northern Finland, and Utsjoki, and especially those who know German, you may be interested to watch a programme in the German second channel ZDF that they were sending for the end of 2012. The programme talks about Sámi land rights, reindeer roundup, gender relations, schooling in Utsjoki, …
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It's a high profile conference taking place in St Petersburg, with support by the Arctic Council, RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs, RF Ministry of Culture and the Russian Geographical Society. For us arctic anthropologists, it's nice to see that this conference has cultural communication in its name. The organisers understand under cultural communication all activities …
Where would be a better place than at the Arctic Circle to establish a research unit on the ethnography and social anthropology of Santa Clauses? When we think about Santa, we mostly get the image of this Coca-Cola dressed red and white person riding on Rudolf the reindeer bringing presents. But in fact there is …
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Open invitation to all, academic and practitioner participants – no RSVP required. Additional posters and announcements for the different events will be posted at the door of the venue. Please see also separate programmes and announcements on the "lectures and events" page of this blog Unless otherwise announced, all events to be held in the …
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Arctic Studies Program ASPB1104 Peoples, Culture and Identities of the Arctic http://www.uarctic.org/members.aspx?m=790 Anna Stammler-Gossmann (September – October) The concept of indigeneity: From definitions to norms and to identity (object of international law; between transnational and local; who is indigenous?) North as space (geographical, economic, legal and mental space; homeland and frontier) Human-nature relations and environmental …
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Roza Laptander and Stephan Dudeck from the Anthropology Research Team in Rovaniemi participated in the Franco-German seminar “Gateway to the Arctic” from 17th -19th September in Bremerhaven. It aimed at enabling the dialogue of natural and social scientists in Arctic research. Roza Laptander presented a poster about the snow terminology in Nenets language and the …
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