Category: Indigenous Peoples

Dolphins enter Akureyri port as Kulan conducts blessing at ICASS congress

On By arcticcentreIn All, Announcements, Guests, Indigenous Peoples, Spirituality, Theoretical Issues

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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ORHELIA: ORal History of Empires by Elders in the Arctic

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Hurraa! The anthropology resaerch team is VERY pleased and positively surprised about the big honour to have got a significant research grant by the research council for culture and society at the Academy of Finland. What will this be about? This research contributes to developing a comparative history of relations between states and their remote …

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