Tag Archives: Anthropology of the North

Воспоминания коренных жителей Севера о национальных и вспомогательных школах-интернатах – Testimonies about boarding schools among indigenous people in Russia’s North

Posted on March 25, 2018 by

English text see below. Цель данной статьи – предоставить слово бывшим ученикам интернатов Севера России, с особенным упором на вспомогательных школах-интернатах советского периода, в народе приобретавшие печальное прозвище «дебилки». Материалы являются свидетельством событий с 1960-х по 1980-е годы. Я собирал … Continue reading →

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The Khanty Bear Feast revisited

Posted on April 24, 2016 by

I have visited the Western Siberian Khanty in the vicinity of the oil towns in the Surgut region for twenty years now. Never could I have imagined I would see a performance of the famous Khanty Bear Ceremony documented thirty … Continue reading →

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Post Doc ad, Rovaniemi, Arctic Indigenous Anthropology?

Posted on March 3, 2016 by

Dear friends, The unversty of Lapland advertises a 2 year postdoc in Arctic Indigenous studies. It would be great to get as many as possible good applications from good anthropologists. The candidate could then work together with our team here … Continue reading →

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New book: Before Boas – The Genesis of Ethnography and Ethnology in the German Enlightenment

Posted on June 29, 2015 by

I would like to announce a newly published book exploring why the cradle of our discipline was to be found in ethnographic research in the Russian Arctic. The present book sums up the results of decades of research into early … Continue reading →

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Anthropological know how ‐ Fieldwork among Shamans and questions of research methodology

Posted on April 28, 2014 by

Tuesday April 29th 2014 and Wednesday April 30th 2014 Two open lectures by Prof. Tatiana Bulgakova, Herzen State Pedagogical University in St. Petersburg

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