sNAPAshot: Briana Nichols
https://practicinganthropology.org/wp-content/uploads/2023.05.01-Briana-Commercial.mp4 We’re excited to share our next webisode centers the experiences of Briana Nichols, Post-Doctoral Fellow in…
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Call for Submissions: Editors’ Forum on Popular Culture Representations of Anthropologists
We are excited to announce our very first “Editors’ Forum.” As part of this initiative, we are calling for blog submissions on the fascinating topic of “Popular Culture…
sNAPAshots: Mohini Mehta & Chad Morris
We have two exciting episodes in store for viewers this month, as we begin Season Two of sNAPAshots and NAPA’s 40th year! Hear from Mohini Mehta a PhD…
sNAPAshots is back this April 1st!!!
sNAPAshots Season 2 Drops Next Saturday!! The post sNAPAshots is back this April 1st!!! first appeared on NAPA.
NAPA’s going to the SfAAs!!
NAPA Sponsored Sessions at the 2023 Society for Applied Anthropology Wednesday, March 299:00 am – 10:45 am (W-09) Visible and Invisible Racial Minorities in Response to Social and…
Greenland’s South: Inuit pastoralists in a rapidly changing Arctic environment
The first thing flying into Kangerlussuaq, Greenland reminds us that this is ‘properly’ Arctic. For most people who call the North home, the Arctic is further up North…
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Since Elon Musk bought Twitter, there has been an exodus of “Twitter executives on the front lines of protecting safety, security, speech, and accessibility. Some were fired, others…
New Book in Sámi Studies Illuminates the Diversity of Sámi Worlds
A major contribution to Sámi Studies, The Sámi World presents a diversity of research topics from across Sápmi, providing rich and multifaceted understandings of Sámi worlds. The book…
China – do we care?
Some of us Arctic anthropologists may not have China on the immediate radar of their interest. However, China has become an increasingly important player in the Arctic, through…
Indeterminacy: A co-hosted spring conference
This year’s spring conference is committed to exploring the nature and dangers of indeterminacy. The time has come for indeterminacy to be interrogated, not least for the ways…
Relations and beyond: call for panels and papers
For the first time, an Arctic Anthropology team hosts the conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society, to be held from 21-23 March 2023 in Rovaniemi. Many still imagine…
Film screening: in the name of the wild
On October 3rd our colleagues from the University from the “Sustainable Naturecultures” research group at the Faculty of Social Sciences host an interesting film screening including discu…
An urgent and important initiative to move forward with EU support of Arctic research together with Indigenous communities
I would like to encourage you with this post to fill in a short anonymous survey on your experiences and challenges with the co-creation of knowledge here: https://survey.hifis.dkfz.de/351545…
Arctic Midsummer – party time with pagan roots
In the European Arctic Midsummer nowadays marks mostly the start of the summer holidays. But at the roots of this big holiday, celebrated on or close to the…
Resurrecting a wolf for conservation?
Many herders, especailly in the Sub-Arctic, are threatened by the increased number of wolves, eating entire reindeer herds. In Australia they go the opposite way now: they try…
Decolonising indigenous knowledge? Reading circle 12 May 2022 noon Finnish time
Indigenous knowledge, or better indigenous ways of knowing, have been key to anthropological debates on human-environment relations in the Arctic, even more so since climate change has increased…
Disaster anthropology talk 17 May: The role of culture in crisis:
collectivism and individualism in the coastal fishing after 2011 Japan Earthquake and Tsunami This was once Arahama – the vibrant fishing suburb of Sendai, right by the coast.…
Calving started in Yamal reindeer herding
Our friend Eduard Khudi and his wife Valentina sent these photos today, of the first reindeer calf of the year, born the 27th April in the Yamal tundra…
Somatosphere seeks new editor by Eugene Raikhel
Somatosphere is seeking an editor or small editorial group to begin a 5-year term on September 1, 2022. Applicants should be active researchers in medical anthropology or a…
Nomadic or sedentary life: difficult choice?
Most people on our planet make their life choices mostly about in which settlement, country, climate etc they want to live. But the remaining nomads in the Arctic…
Rare job opening: Groningen Professor Arctic Studies
This blog is run by the anthropology team of the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland. But today we want to share a very rare job opening of our…
Platypus in 2022
This browser does not support HTML5 audio Photo by the author. As the new year and the new semester have been off to (hopefully) a good start, Platypus…
Foreign Correspondents: Call for Reviewers by Stephanie Lloyd
The past two years have made us realize, more than ever, the importance of creating means of contacting and understanding each other and finding ways of connecting the…