How do people cope? What changes have they observed? How does climate change affect their life and and their relation to the environment? These are some of the important questions that anthropologist Zdenka Sokolíčková asks. more »
Category: "Arctic / Northern Regions"
(via anthropologyworks) British-Canadian anthropologist Robert Paine died at the age of 84. Eveybody who's interested in the Northern and Polar areas will know his name. He sent his most recent article for publication just weeks ago. Last year his… more »
by lorenz on Jan 19, 2010 in indigenous people / minorities, culture traditions, ecology nature, Arctic / Northern Regions, journal articles / papers, interdisciplinary • 3 comments »
The tundra ecosystems in Siberia are vulnerable to both climate change and oil/gass drilling. Yet the Yamal-Nenets in West Siberia have shown remarkable resilience to these changes. "Free access to open space has been the key for success" says Bruce For… more »
by lorenz on Apr 4, 2008 in language, inuit, Native American, Arctic / Northern Regions, history • 2 comments »
While studying an ancient language now spoken by only a few hundred people in a remote corner of Siberia, linguist Edward Vajda has found the first-ever linguistic link between the Old World and any First Nation in Canada, the Ottawa Citizen reports. "T… more »
by lorenz on Aug 28, 2007 in technology, culture traditions, language, Native American, Arctic / Northern Regions, internet, websites • 1 comment »
Their language is nearly dead. Maybe a new website can revitalize Kahtnuht'ana Qenaga: The Kenai Peoples Language in Alaska? For more than two years, the two anthropologists Alan Boraas and Michael Christian have taken pictures, navigated through HTML an… more »
In the 1960s and 1970s, elders in Greenland feared their language would be lost. Today, the vast majority of Greenlanders - 92 per cent - are fluent in their native tongue. Inuit language thrives in Greenland, Nunatsiaq News reports:
You can find a co… more »
by lorenz on Apr 18, 2007 in indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, ecology nature, persons and theories, Arctic / Northern Regions, journal articles / papers • 2 comments »
Our fellow anthro-blogger Tad McIlwraith has successfully defended his dissertation "But We Are Still Native People’: Talking about Hunting and History in a Northern Athapaskan Village" that now can be downloaded from his website (The graduates in his ye… more »
More than 50,000 scientists from 63 nations turned their attention to the world's poles when the International Polar Year officially opened on Monday: It unifies 228 research projects about the impact of global warming in the Arctic the Washington Post r… more »
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