Department
Department of Archaeology and Social Anthropology
Organization
University of Tromso
Email
david.anderson@abdn.ac.uk
Phone
+44-1224-272-772
Address
G5 Edward Wright Building
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.