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Relations and beyond – keynotes by Vitebsky, Strathern and Ingold to be streamed

16.3.2023 13:04

At the Arctic Circle in Finland, Rovaniemi, we are frantically putting the finishing touches to the programme of the biennial conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society, from 21-23 March 2023. The programme is now online, here . More on the keynotes below, . Alla and Puti Okotetto enact their relation with cards, Yamal Peninsula, Sabetta, …

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The ’battery belt’ by public transport

13.3.2023 11:02

NPE researcher Hanna Lempinen shares her experiences of travelling from Rovaniemi to Umeå by public transport.

Greenland’s South: Inuit pastoralists in a rapidly changing Arctic environment

19.1.2023 19:00

Usually we associate Inuit livelihood with hunting, both terrestrial and sea-mammal, beautiful material culture, handicrafts made of whale, seal, and more recently, the fishing economy. However, in Greenland’s South there is a 1000 year history of herding pastoral animals, once imported from the Norse / Vikings. Nowadays this indigenous pastoralist livelihood in South Greenland is …

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