Karina Lukin’s defense of her dissertation on the Nenets of Kolguev Island

Members of the Anthropological Research Group of the Arctic Centre Rovaniemi Florian Stammler, Roza Laptander, Nina Messhtyb and Stephan Dudeck took part in the defense of Karina Lukin’s dissertation at the University of Helsinki on 10 December 2011. She published her dissertation under the titel “Elämän ja entisyyden maisemat – Kolgujev nenetsien arjessa, muistelussa ja kerronnassa” …

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Исследование устной истории Империй

Исследование устной истории Империй Исследовательская группа антропологов Арктического центра в г. Рованиеми (Финляндия), возглавляемая Др. Флорианом Штаммлером, получила грант от Академии наук Финляндии на финансирование международного исследовательского проекта ORHELIA. Аббревиатура ORHELIA раскрывается как “Oral History of Empires by Elders in the Arctic” (Устная история Империй, рассказанная стариками Арктики) с подзаголовком «Сравнительная история взаимоотношений государства с …

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ORHELIA: ORal History of Empires by Elders in the Arctic

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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ORHELIA message from the field in Yamal, April 2011

Florian (I)  is currently with colleague Roza Laptander doing fieldwork in Yamal for a project called ORHELIA.  The acronym ORHELIA stand for "Oral Histories of Elders in the Arctic" and is a project that looks at how remote northerners have experienced the historical and cultural changes of the 20th century in their own biographies. I was …

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