"When we talked to the communities about their research priorities, climate change wasn't mentioned a single time" Chris Southcott, ReSDA project leader In November Yellowknife is a nice fairy-tale winter town, the administrative centre of the North West Territories in Canada's North, with around 20 000 inhabitants smaller than Rovaniemi. It hosted the …
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Exhibition: Art, the North, people and the state
Northern art exhibition, Rovaniemi "Flying Stories" Rovaniemi Art Museum, 4.11.2011-29.1.2012 We went to watch an exhibition by three painters on Arctic topics, from three different regions: Greenland, Lapland and the Russian North-West. It's called "Flying Stories" and exhibits paintings by Tyko Vylko, Andreas Alariesto and Johan Markussen. According to the museum, the exhibition is targeted …
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Nature special, Arctic: discussion
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. …
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 …
Arctic Anthropology 