Lectures and events, autumn 2012, anthropology research team, Rovaniemi

Open invitation to all, academic and practitioner participants – no RSVP required. Additional posters and announcements for the different events will be posted at the door of the venue. Please see also separate programmes and announcements on the "lectures and events" page of this blog Unless otherwise announced, all events to be held in the …

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Making a film from field materials with zero experience and zero budget

Is it possible to turn your field data into a film with very moderate technical skills and no budget? We do not expect our first effort at a documentary to be award winning.  But we started in October with a workshop with editing of Anna’s fieldwork video records in Windows Movie Maker. Now we will …

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Notes on hospitality, performance and potlatch: University of Yakutsk, Russia

What is a potlatch? Barbara Miller, author of Cultural Anthropology (2007), describes it as  "a feast in which the host lavishes the guests with abundant quantities of the best food and many gifts." That's what I felt reminded of at a recent conference on "science and education in the 21st century" [couldn't have been broader, …

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Human agents or resources in Arctic extractive industries?

Human Resources in Arctic extractive industries - a PhD course under the Uarctic Thematic Network "People and the Extractive Industries" It was a small but extremely diverse group that we got together between September 10-16 in St John's, the capital of Newfoundland, Canada. The participants to the course came from 5 different institutions and 7 …

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Meeting old and new friends in Inari

For us from the Anthropology Research Team here in Rovaniemi the Sámi Cultural Centre SAJOS in Inari became a place where we regularly meet friends from the indigenous movement in Russia. Galina Platova from the Association of Nenets people “Yasavey” told me already in Naryan-Mar, that she will come soon to Inari for a conference. …

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