Department
Department of Archaeology and Social Anthropology
Organization
University of Tromso
Email
david.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.