Apply Today for Summer Field School in Northern Russia
The Evergreen State College
11 June - 21 August 2006
Application Deadline: Friday, 28 April 2006
For more information, please go to:
http://www.webstarstudio.com/cefs/
The Evergreen State College is organizing a summer ethnographic field
school in the Komi Republic. Participating students will travel to the
Russian tundra and learn first hand how to conduct ethnographic
fieldwork using anthropological methods in an applied setting. This
field school will last from 11 June to 21 August 2006 and will provide
up to 16 upper-level anthropology credits.
Students will gain invaluable international experience in the field,
applying theory learned in class to designing and carrying out research.
In addition to gaining practical training in methods and the design of
research projects, students will also gain a deeper understanding of
other cultures and learn more about the largest country in the world
(close to twice the size of Canada).
Students will live in the city of Syktyvkar, capital of the Komi
Republic, acquiring fundamental anthropological research skills before
leaving for the northern Izhma Komi district. A small quiet agricultural
region whose inhabitants live off of agriculture and reindeer herding,
the Izhma region is predominantly Komi with a rich cultural tradition
dating back centuries. The Komi language is a Finno-Ugric language
related to the Finnish and Estonian languages and a number of languages
within the Russian Federation stretching from the Baltic Sea to the
Urals and beyond. From the village, the students will travel north
towards the Arctic Ocean, eventually traveling to the reindeer herds of
northern Russia in their summer tundra pastures located in the Ural
Mountains.
The cost of the field school is approximately $6,200 USD including
airfare, visas, tuition, and field school fees.
For more information on this field school opportunity, please go to:
http://www.webstarstudio.com/cefs/.
or e-mail either Robert Smurr (smurrr [at] evergreen.edu) or Michel Bouchard
(michel [at] unbc.ca).