Tag Archives: indigenous people

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

Текст на русском языке см. ниже In this contribution, which will be mainly in Russian, I want to give the floor to the numerous voices about boarding schools among indigenous people in Russia and the former Soviet Union, which I … Continue reading →

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Who closed the border between Finland and Russia? A reply to The Independent Barents Observer

Posted on May 26, 2016 by

The saga about the Northern migrant route for asylum seekers wishing to reach a European country recently got a new turn: Since April 2016 the Russian-Finnish border in Lapland is closed for third-country citizens. The international staff of researchers at … 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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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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Report from two workshops at the Arctic Science Summit Week in Helsinki

Posted on April 8, 2014 by

“Permafrost Dynamics and Indigenous Land Use” was the title of a two-day workshop at the Arctic Science Summit Week in Helsinki – which is still ongoing at the time of writing this post (5-11 April 2014). Organised by Joachim Otto … Continue reading →

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