Circumpolar Arctic Anthropology? Seminar Series addressing the pasts and prospects of an again-divided field

Half of the People and the Land in the Arctic are in Russia. Quo Vadis Arctic Anthropology? Many of us who have worked for years, decades or their entire professional life in the Russian Arctic started wondering in early 2022 what will happen of the circumpolarity in Arctic Anthropology if we exclude the Russian Arctic …

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Language contacts in the Arctic

August 31 is the deadline for paper submissions to a congress in Moscow. Judging from the keynote speakers, this should be also very interesting for us anthropologists, because it's not only about hard core linguistic studies, but very much about the cultural context in which speakers of different languages get into contact. Have a look …

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