DepartmentDepartment of Archaeology and Social Anthropology
OrganizationUniversity of Tromso
Emaildavid.anderson@abdn.ac.uk
Location
Aberdeen
United Kingdom
Science Specialties
anthropology, Athabaskan studies, Siberian peoples
Current Research
Comparative study of local models of caribou behaviour in Taimyr and in the Mackenzie Delta.Starting a project on models of plant and forest use in Gwich'in communities in Canada.General interest includes the study of aboriginal rights in a circumpolar perspective, northern development policy, reindeer herding, animal translocations in the circumpolar north, and the ideology of mixed-blood (metis) and 'pure blood' identities.