Arctic Crossings at AAA Annual Meeting, San Francisco

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In case any of you will be at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in San Francisco, please consider attending our panel: "Arctic Crossings: Labour, Capital, and Locality in the Circumpolar North" Saturday, November 17, 4-5:45pm, Continental 9 (Hilton San Francisco) Trans-Beringian Crossings: Informal Meshworks and Evasive Space In North Pacific Borderlands - Tobias S …

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

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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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How do we see the sea: multiple meanings of seawater

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Series of lectures and documentary films, November 16 – 29, 2012 by Arctic Anthropology Team (ACCESS project Arctic Climate Change, Economy and Society, Dr. Anna Stammler-Gossmann) Dr. Anna Stammler-Gossmann (Arctic Centre, Finland). Lecture: ‘Domesticated’ fish: what is behind our salmon steak? Presentation of the fieldwork documentary ‘Fresh Norwegian Salmon: Farmed and monitored’, 9 min. November …

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

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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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We are teaching again (September – December)

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Arctic Studies Program ASPB1104 Peoples, Culture and Identities of the Arctic http://www.uarctic.org/members.aspx?m=790 Anna Stammler-Gossmann (September – October) The concept of indigeneity: From definitions to norms and to identity (object of international law; between transnational and local; who is indigenous?) North as space (geographical, economic, legal and mental space; homeland and frontier) Human-nature relations and environmental …

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