David G. Anderson is an anthropologist working with communities across the circumpolar North. He is originally Canadian, and grew up in Northern Alberta. He holds degrees in Politics with Sociology (Carleton U), Sociology (UWisc-Madison), and Social Anthropology (Cambridge). He started working in the circumpolar North as a technician at the Ft.McPherson Language Centre in the Gwich’in Settlement Area. His reading and fieldwork for the Masters and PhD was with with Evenki people first in Zabaikal’e and later in Taimyr and the Evenki Autonomous Area. Since that time he has also worked with communities in Iamal, and in Northern Norway. He has been based at the University of Aberdeen since 2000, and was appointed Chair in the Anthropology of the North in 2013. At the University of Aberdeen he was active in getting the University to join the UArctic network and helped to host the Rector Conference in Aberdeen in 2017. He also leads the Thematic Network CAFÉ: Circumpolar Archives, Folklore and Ethnography. He researches and publishes in a wide number of areas: ethnography, ethnohistory, archaeology, Rangifer genetics, and political ecology. -faculty profile
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History, Ethnological expeditions, Ethnology, Social life and customs, Congresses, Conservation of natural resources, Discovery and exploration, Domestic animals, Environmental ethics, Ethnology, russia (federation), siberia, Arctic regions, Census, Consumption (economics), Distribution (economic theory), Eskimos, Human ecology, Human-animal relationships, Indigenous peoples, Manners and customs, Reindeer, Reindeer herding, Siberia (russia), social life and customs, Sources, Alternative medicine, Animaux domestiquesPlaces
Russia (Federation), Siberia, Arctic regions, Russia, Siberia (Russia), Arkhangelʹskai︠a︡ oblastʹ, Arkhangelʹskai︠a︡ oblastʹ (Russia), Komi, Komi (Russia), Newfoundland, Northern Russia, Soviet Union, Taymyr Peninsula, Taymyr Peninsula (Russia), Taymyr Peninusla (Russia), Yenisey River ValleyID Numbers
- OLID: OL32591A
- ISNI: 000000038219623X
- VIAF: 263897188
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- Anderson, David G. (David George), 1965-
- Anderson, David George, 1965-....
- Anderson, David G. 1965-
- David Anderson
- Anderson, D. G.
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