This could begin as early as February and continue periodically throughout the spring semester. Even being available for just one trip would be fine. Anyone who is interested should contact Kevin McGowan at 847.548.7961. Interviews will be conducted at the AAPA meeting in March. The University of Northern British Columbia, with the cooperation of Yakutsk State University, is offering a unique Circumpolar Ethnographic Field School in 2001.
Applications are welcome from interested students.
Courses will include Russian language, ethnographic methods, Siberian ethnography, and an ethnographic project. Students will acquire basic skills in ethnography while participating in an actual research project. Participants will be under the supervision of Canadian and Russian ethnographers. The first half of the field school will be based in Yakutsk, but for those students willing to face the challenge of life on the tundra, Evenki and Eveny reindeer-herding communities have agreed to welcome students who will participate in the daily life of indigenous communities in the Siberian countryside. The field school will run from May 14 to August 24.