Paths to a Sustainable Arctic: research avenues
In Rejkjavik, the well-known Finnish architect Alvar Aalto designed a beautiful house that is all about Nordic countries cooperation, the “Nordic House”. We had the honour to be…
Tag: Sámi
The benefits of the cold: open-access book 2025
Finally the time has come for a separate blog post advertising and celebrating the publication of a book volume, for which more a dozen Arctic scholars have been…
new Finnish Sámi research ethics: a reading circle & discussion 19 Sep 2024
Within Finland the new ethical guidelines for research involving the Sámi people in Finland have been widely announced, starting with their launch in June 2024. The guidelines also…
Fieldnotes returning to the field: Tim Ingold and the Skolt Sámi
Those of our readers who read Finnish may have seen this already, but this event may be of some wider relevance: https://www.ulapland.fi/events/Antropologi-Tim-Ingoldin-kenttamuistiinpanojen-luovutust…
Indigenous ways of knowing in auditing practice
Currently the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI) has one of their worldwide working group meetings in Rovaniemi, the working group of environmental auditing (WGEA). At …
East Finnmark – interethnic borderland now and then
A Russian vessel named “Saami” in a Norwegian wharf in Kirkenes in June 2023: the borderland reality on the ground continues as a lived experience even at times…
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…
Indigenous People against industry: theatre performance
Many of you may have heard about the resistance of Sámi people against the Alta-Kautokeino hydroelectric dam in the 1970s-1980s. Even though the dam was built, the Sámi…
A snapshot of contemporary indigenous life – with emphasis on Sámi perspectives
A new publication on Arctic Indigenous Peoples from The Sámi Council and German Arctic Office (at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research) was…
The Experience of Displacement and Social Engineering in Kola Saami Oral Histories
Public defence of the doctoral dissertation by blog contributor Lukas Allemann on 15 Oct 2020 Our team member and periodic blog contributor Lukas Allemann examines in his thesis…
Saami rights lecture, Rovaniemi
Our colleague Klemetti Näkkäläjärvi will give a lecture this Friday at 13.15 at the University of Lapland main building, with a title that would sound in english something…
Oktoberfest Munich – is it all about human-horse relations?
Why would we write about the Oktoberfest on this blog? It turns out that there is an aspect of it that is closely related to the interest in…
“Linnaeus in Sápmi: Generating Knowledge in Transit”
The Anthropology Research Team is very happy to welcome you all at the Arctic Centre for a joint presentation by Professor Elena Isayev and Professor Staffan Müller-Wille, both…
Воспоминания коренных жителей Севера о национальных и вспомогательных школах-интернатах – Testimonies about boarding schools among indigenous people in Russia’s North
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…
Care, assimilation and revitalization in Deanuleahki, Sápmi
We have the pleasure to host at the anthropology team Annikki Herranen-Tabibi, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University. She is doing research on kin-based forms of care, an…
A Memory Stick Packed With Memory – Карта памяти заполненная памятью
***Русский текст ниже*** As a major outcome of the ORHELIA project (Oral History of Empires by Elders in the Arctic), our research team is proud to present a…
Stereotypes die hard!
Last week, an advertising campaign by Visit Finland and Finnair produced images of Sàmi in traditional clothes dancing around the fire during a shamanic ritual in the tent.…
Call for papers: Moving memories
22-23 OCTOBER 2015 The Arcticanthropology members are proud to host a session at the 12th Annual ETMU Days Conference, which takes place this year at the University of…
New Intern at Arctic Centre Rovaniemi
Léon Fuchs, from Versailles My name is Léon Fuchs and I will soon be 24 years old. I am a new intern at the Arctic Centre and I…