My book “The Sámi of the Kola Peninsula: About the life of an ethnic minority in the Soviet Union” has been recently translated into English and published on the internet within the publication series of the Centre for Sámi Studies at the University of Tromsø. Using extensive biographical interviews as a primary source, this oral …
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Encountering ethnographical and archaeological research in Siberia by Francis Joy
My first visit to Siberia to Irkutsk as a participant in the 20th International Symposium which was organized by Irkutsk State Technical University, 27-31st of May 2013. This years theme was 'Integrating Archaeological and Ethnographical Research'. A picture below of the organizing Committee at the Pribaikalskaja Hotel where the conference was held.
RAIPON indigenous peoples association new president
For those interested, the Russian Indigenous Peoples Association (RAIPON) got a new president a week ago, at a very important time in the organisation's biography, because it had been closed down for formal reasons by Russian authorities late last year. Now elections for the presidency had been held in Salekhard, the capital of my prime …
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Siberia films online Finnish TV
Finnish State TV Yle has been sending a number of excellent documentaries on and / or by northern indigenous people recently. You can watch them usually for three weeks longer online. Today there will be the screening on YLE TEEMA TV of Lapsui/Lehmuskallio's famous "Seven Songs from the Tundra", the world's first fiction film in …
Adventure Siberia, 90 minutes documentary
TV channel ZDF (second German state channel) screened over the holiday a two-part documentary on Siberia and the fascination that this huge land mass has had on researchers, business people and other adventurers. The programme can be watched online via the media library of the TV channel as PART ONE and PART TWO. The film …
“Electronic Memory of the Arctic” – conference on cultural communication in the circumpolar world
It's a high profile conference taking place in St Petersburg, with support by the Arctic Council, RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs, RF Ministry of Culture and the Russian Geographical Society. For us arctic anthropologists, it's nice to see that this conference has cultural communication in its name. The organisers understand under cultural communication all activities …
Santa anthropology? Santa Claus link collection
Where would be a better place than at the Arctic Circle to establish a research unit on the ethnography and social anthropology of Santa Clauses? When we think about Santa, we mostly get the image of this Coca-Cola dressed red and white person riding on Rudolf the reindeer bringing presents. But in fact there is …
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