DepartmentDepartment of Archaeology and Social Anthropology
OrganizationUniversity of Tromso
Emaildavid.anderson@abdn.ac.uk
Phone+44-1224-272-772
AddressG5 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.