Yamal has a legally protected sacred sites inventory: here, Angalskiy Mys Today in the morning I was just about to brew my breakfast coffee, when my friend Mikhail Okotetto called and told me "we need to go and feed the sacred site here, come along, right now". I had 5 minutes to grab my stuff …
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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 …
Evelyn Landerer, Siberia
Evelyn tells her story about getting ready to go to the forest, from the village of Teteya, Irkutskaya Oblast
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. …
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Arctic Anthropology 