From: "Michel Bouchard" <michel@unbc.ca>
Summer Field School in Northern Russia:
Summer 2006
Evergreen State College is organizing a summer
ethnographic field school in the Komi Republic.
Students will have an opportunity to travel to the
Russia tundra and learn first hand how to conduct
ethnographic fieldwork using anthropological methods
in an applied setting.
This field school will last from June 11 to August
21st 2006 and will provide up to 16 upper-level
anthropology credits.
Students will experience gain invaluable international
experience in the field, applying theory learned in
class to designing and carrying out research in the
field.
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 tundra summer
pastures located in the northern Ural Mountains.
The cost of the field school is estimated at roughly
$6,500 including airfare, visas, tuition fees and
field school fees.
For more information, please consult the following
website:
http://www.webstarstudio.com/cefs/. Or e-mail either Robert Smurr (smurrr@evergreen.edu)
or Michel Bouchard (michel@unbc.ca) for more
information on this field school opportunity.
