Rain on snow – how do people and reindeer learn to survive?
This winter and spring we hear again disastrous news from sudden temperature rises and falls, leading to thick ice-crusts on reindeer pastures that block reindeer’s access to their…
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Trust Versus Paranoia: Can the Siberian fire spirit explain the spectacular failure of the UK Covid track and trace app?
Piers Vitebsky (pv100(at)cam.ac.uk) and Roza Laptander (roza.laptander(at)mail.ru) are going to give an interesting example on how to de-provincialise Arctic social sciences. This time on a topic tha…
The Arctic Environmental Responsibility Index – oil and gas better than mining?
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/bse.2698 This has been a long journey and a lot of work several years: jointly with a number of interdisciplinary colleagues, we published our arti…
Sudden loss of a great research facilitator
This is dedicated to a long term and very good friend, Konstantin Ochepkov, who passed away in Siberia way too early yesterday, just a little over 50 years…
Long live the tundra nomads!
Just found out from the local news that in the Novyi Urengoy hospital two Nenets elders survived covid-19 and recovered from pneumonia, at the age of more than…
PhD jobs, Arctic Anthropology?
Dear readers, the University of Lapland offers four full-time PhD positions in an open call. So basically any topic in Arctic Social Sciences go. I would very much…
Language, silence and climate in Yamal
In spring we were proud to host the world’s first anthropological PhD defence in english by a Nenets colleague, Roza Laptander. Now we are happy that she got…
Society 5.0 – new evolutionism towards more inclusive well-being?
Listening to the presentation of Ms Kanae from the Japanese cabinet office at the Japan-Finland Joint Committee meeting on Cooperation in Science and Technology, I was impressed how…
Markku Lehmuskallio in Rovaniemi – Pre-screening meeting with the film maker
for many of our readers Markku Lehmuskallio won’t need an introduction. He is a world acclaimed film maker, and a friend of our team. Some of you may…
Future of circumpolar youth in a changing climate
just wanted to share this, have a look. A nice project, idea to have very short clips of young people talking about life. But as worrying as it…
Future of Arctic Youth in Rural Areas
This initiative sounds very promising. I think we would need a publication that explores anthropologically the specifics of gender organisation in Arctic societies, not only in villages but…
Urban Anthropology job, research in Nuuk
This comes pretty late, but who knows, maybe they extend the deadline? Colleagues want us to spread the news of PhD jobs funded at Tromso and Oslo and…
Professorship in California
Our colleagues would like us to widely announce these two job adverts in indigenous studies The Global Studies Department at the University of California, Irvine will be hiring…
Covid-19 arrived in the Yamal tundra
It was probably a matter of time, but I thought until today ‘how great that the tundra is still free of infections’. The reindeer herders strategy of avoiding…
Tromso job offer: Associate Professor Anthropology
Many of our team have cooperated with anthropologists from Tromso in one way or the other. Now the department there advertises a job at the level of associate…
Ysyakh 2020 – solstice festival online
Midsummer, solstice on the 21 June is for many northern peoples and cultures an important holiday. In Finland it’s called Juhannus and a state holiday. In Yakutia, where…
Permafrost thaw responsible for Norilsk oil spill, impacting indigenous fishing?
Talking to a friend in Se Yakha, at the shore of the Ob Bay close to the Kara Sea, I realised how far the consequences of the recent…
COVID-19 impacts in the Arctic: anthropological research gaps / ideas?
Dear all, I’m contributing to an expert document on the impacts of COVID-19 in the Arctic. I think it is essential that we highlight research gaps that we…
Record early river-thaw in Siberia
The warm weather in Siberia seems to have led to an exceptionally early ice-thawing on Siberia’s major rivers. The specific of the river geography here is that all…
Nenets mothers’ education: another PhD defense
After recently having celebrated the world’s first Nenets PhD defense, now we can witness another one, in three days time, 14 May 11.15 Norwegian time! Zoya Vylka Ravna…
Sacred Site worshipping for good health in Corona times
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…
Evelyn Landerer, Siberia, story about procuring and shipping provisions.
Evelyn tells her story about getting ready to go to the forest, from the village of Teteya, Irkutskaya Oblast
Fieldwork story Stammler 2: Yamal, hunting for petrol and a wild reindeer
https://arcticanthropology.files.wordpress.com/2020/04/stammler-story2-reindeerpetrol-h.mp3 A story about my failed attempt of shooting a wild reindeer, and of a successful hunt for petrol Yarko…
Fieldwork story Stammler 1: Yamal, participation over observation is a health risk
participation over observation is a health riskThis was my first cold night ever in a chum in the Yamal tundra. It’s a story of ‘lesson learned’ early on…