After recently having celebrated the world's first Nenets PhD defense, now we can witness another one, in three days time, 14 May 11.15 Norwegian time! Zoya Vylka Ravna shall defend her thesis with the very technical name "The Inter-Generational Transmission of Indigenous Knowledge By Nenets Women: Viewed in the context of the state educational system …
Continue reading Nenets mothers’ education: another PhD defense
Roza Laptander's public dissertation defense took place online on the 29th of April 2020 at 10 a.m. Finnish time. "In Christianity, at the beginning was the word - in Nenets, at the beginning was silence" (Andrey Golovnev during Roza's defense). How beautifully put by Andrey Golovnev! The director of the Kunstkamera acted as opponent in …
Here are below in youtube Evelyn Landerer's fieldwork stories told during the Corona lockdown which started our idea of collecting stories on a platform. These stories are in German and with pictures.
A story about my failed attempt of shooting a wild reindeer, and of a successful hunt for petrol Yarkolana (Nikolay) Khorotetto, spring 2001 This story is dedicated to my friend Yarkolana (Nikolay) Khorotetto, who was tragically found dead (link in Russian) in the tundra, probably killed just after my birthday in 2019. This story takes …
Continue reading Fieldwork story Stammler 2: Yamal, hunting for petrol and a wild reindeer
participation over observation is a health risk This was my first cold night ever in a chum in the Yamal tundra. It's a story of 'lesson learned' early on in my fieldwork practice, that you need not only to be keen to participate in people's life, but also be a good observer for the details. …
Continue reading Fieldwork story Stammler 1: Yamal, participation over observation is a health risk
I have been doing fieldwork with Yamal Nenets reindeer herders for more than 20 years now, and have noticed this year a change in their perception of the changes happening around them, maybe partially reinforced by corona virus. Be it industrial expansion, the icing-over of pastures, outbreaks of diseases, methane holes in the tundra, the …
Continue reading “CCC” – corona, climate change and conspiracy in the Yamal tundra
Our anthropology colleague Prof Hannu Heikkinen from Oulu just sent this around. Seems to be a rather rare opportunity for a permanent job in Arctic Anthropology! Arctic Interactions (ArcI) is a programme designed to achieve global leadership in the area of “Understanding and mitigating global change in the Arctic through fundamental studies at the interface between …
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