I would like to share with you some of the things we learned from Julie Cruikshank and other elders from the Yukon Territory to better understand oral history from the North. To search for surprising insights, to be open to challenges to our conventional perceptions, that was Julie's most important advice to us. Her talk …
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We are honoured and pleased to have Julie Cruikshank for the better part of the first week of April with us here in Rovaniemi. It won't pay enough respect to her fame to introduce her here briefly. There is enough good praise for her work in the net, most recently through the 2012 Clio award …
Continue reading ‘Are glaciers ‘good to think with? – Julie Cruikshank in Rovaniemi
Advanced level studies: (ASPA2013) Identity on the Move: Sense of belonging to place and people January 15 – February 28, 2013 15.01.2013 - Introductory lecture (Dr. Anna Stammler-Gossmann, Dr. Nuccio Mazzullo, Dr. Stephan Dudeck) 24.01.- 29.01. 2013 – Anna Stammler-Gossmann Transboundary identity - Indigenous identity: Between transnational – national – local Spatial identity - Search …
The Anthropological Research Team is happy to announce the visit of Joel Robbins, one of the world’s leading scholars in the anthropology of religion and cultural change and soon-to-be professor at Cambridge to the Arctic Center. On Thursday 17 Jan. 14:30-16:00, in the Borealis lecture room 313, Joel Robbins will talk about his subject of …
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 …
Continue reading Lectures and events, autumn 2012, anthropology research team, Rovaniemi
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, …
Continue reading Notes on hospitality, performance and potlatch: University of Yakutsk, Russia
Roza Laptander and Stephan Dudeck from the Anthropology Research Team in Rovaniemi participated in the Franco-German seminar “Gateway to the Arctic” from 17th -19th September in Bremerhaven. It aimed at enabling the dialogue of natural and social scientists in Arctic research. Roza Laptander presented a poster about the snow terminology in Nenets language and the …
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