The top-journal "nature" recently published a special issue on the Arctic, yet another proof on how important our field region is. I liked Henry Huntington's piece on Arctic residents' knowledge and how important this is for understanding the changes happening in the North. A good overview, and touching on the crucial issues for the future. …
Category: Indigenous Peoples
Land use and indigenous rights in the Arctic
The anthropology research team was happy to be invited to the North Eastern Federal University of Yakutsk in Eastern Siberia, held on 28th and 29th of September. Yakutsk is the capital of the Sakha Republic, Russia's biggest administrative unit with the coldest winter temperatures and a population of just under 1 million inhabitants. The faculty …
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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 …
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 …
Forest Nenets ‘sacred ecology’ fieldwork
PhD candidate Rudolf Havelka, member of the Anthropology team under the supervision of Florian Stammler sends greetings from the field! Rudolf has recently finished the first part of his field research among the Forest Nenets in Khanty-Mansi and Yamalo-Nenets AO, in West Siberia, Russia. Rudolf's focus is the relationship between religious thinking, ritual practice and …
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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