Alex Oehler
Professor
Anthropology
University of Northern British Columbia
Canada
Biography
Dr. Oehler is currently affiliated with Arctic Domus, a five-year project headed by Prof. David G. Anderson (University of Aberdeen) and funded by the European Research Council (ERC), which investigates “how people and animals today, and in the past, build sustainable communities around the circumpolar Arctic” (www.arcticdomus.org). Previously he was part of the “Northern Colonialism” research program, headed by Prof. Tim Ingold's “The North” theme at the University of Aberdeen, UK (http://www.abdn.ac.uk/the-north/research/).
Research Interest
Human-animal relations Sentient and sacred landscapes Hunting and herding societies Ancestral language revitalization and identity Circumpolar ethnography, Inuit Studies Siberian & Inner Asian Studies
