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Circumpolar Archives, Folklore, and Ethnography (CAFE)

Circumpolar Archives, Folklore, and Ethnography (CAFE)
Overview

CAFE is a thematic network for the University of the Arctic which focuses upon how archival collections, ethnographic fieldwork, and the study of folklore enrich the representation of and communication across the circumpolar region and its people.

The network will place an emphasis on how the digitization of manuscripts, photographs, sound recordings, and material objects is improving access to collections and making it possible to share collections with host communities. We will specifically examine the best practices of digital sharing and the ethical questions that these technologies pose.

The network is centered around the existing folklore, photographic, and ethnographic collections held by its founding members and will seek to involve community organizations, indigenous research institutes, local artists and media producers, and new academic partners to create a forum for discussing the role of these archives in cultural revival as well as collaborating to create innovative ways for archival materials to reach wider audiences.

Partners

International

  • Polar Libraries Colloquy

Scotland

  • University of Aberdeen
  • University of the Highlands and Islands

Norway

  • UIT The Arctic University of Norway

Faroe Islands

  • University of the Faroe Islands

Russian Federation

  • Northern (Arctic) Federal University
  • Northeastern Federal University

Finland

  • University of Lapland
  • Turku University
  • Helsinki University

Sweden

  • KTH Royal Institute of Technology
  • Umeå University

Iceland

  • University of Iceland

United States of America

  • Berkeley College
  • University of Alaska - Fairbanks

If you are interested in joining the network, please send a paragraph describing your interests in circumpolar archival research, folklore, or ethnography, your address, and your email and website to the network co-ordinators.

Contact Details

Network Meetings

Turku Network meeting - 6 May 2018

At our first network meeting we discussed making a formal application to the UArctic to become a thematic network. We also identified future conferences and meetings where we could meet. Our application to the UArctic

 

Santiago de Compostela Network Meeting - 16 April 2019

Our 2019 meeting involved seven members of the network and discussed future funding initiatives and a plan to start a field school.  Minutes of meeting

 

 

Stockholm UArctic Council Meeting - 19 September 2019

On 19 September our network was approved officially at the UArctic Council Meeting in Stockholm.

 

 

 

UArctic Assembly, Portland Maine - 2 June 2023

After a long hiatus due to the pandemic, we held our first executive meeting in Portland

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  • Comment on: Dombrowski et al. “Relocation Redux: Labrador Inuit Population Movements and Inequalities in the Land Claims Era.”

    Arzyutov, D.

    Current Anthropology, vol. 57, no. 6, pp. 795-796

    Contributions to Journals: Comments and Debates

    Digital Object Identifier
    https://doi.org/10.1086/689210

  • Etnograf s kinokameroi v rukakh: Prokof'evy i nachalo vizual'noi antropologii samodiitsev (The Ethnographer(s) with a Cine-Camera in Their Hands: The Prokofievs and the Beginning of the Visual Anthropology of Samoyeds)

    Arzyutov, D.

    Antropologicheskii Forum, no. 29, pp. 187-218

    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • K 150-leyiiu so dnia rozhdenia Vladimira G. Bogoraza (On the 150th anniversary of the birth of V.G. Bogoraz)

    Arzyutov, D., Vakhtin, N. B.

    Antropologicheskii Forum, no. 29

    Contributions to Journals: Special Issues

  • Vmesto vvedeniia (Instead of Introduction)

    Arzyutov, D., Vakhtin, N. B.

    Antropologicheskii Forum, vol. 29, pp. 101-108

    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • The Saga of the L.H. Morgan Archive or How an American Marxist Helped Make a Bourgeois Anthropologist the Cornerstone of Soviet Ethnography

    Kan, S. A., Arzyutov, D. V.

    Local Knowledge, Global Stage. Darnell, R., Gleach, F. W. (eds.). University of Nebraska Press, pp. 149–220, 71 pages

    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

    Online
    https://muse.jhu.edu/chapter/1846266
    Additional Links
    View publication in Scopus

  • Century Long Journey: the Ysyakh Model at the British Museum

    Brown, A., Argounova-Low, T.

    Non-textual Forms: Exhibitions

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