David G. Anderson
(UK) is a Canadian anthropologist working with communities across the circumpolar North. He started working in the circumpolar North as a technician at the Ft.McPherson Language Centre in the Gwich’in Settlement Area. His reading and fieldwork for his Masters’ and PhD was with Evenki people first in Zabaikal’e and later in Taimyr and the Evenki Autonomous Area. Since that time, he has also worked with communities in Iamal, and in Northern Norway. He has been based at the University of Aberdeen since 2000, where he was appointed Chair in the Anthropology of the North in 2013. He has also been appointed as a UArctic Research Chair. He researches and publishes in a wide number of areas: ethnography, ethnohistory, archaeology, Rangifer genetics, and political ecology. His most recent work (with D. Arzyutov and S. Alymov) has been on the history of Soviet Russian etnos theory in Life Histories of Etnos Theory in Russia and Beyond (Open Books, 2019) and on a model of Arctic Domestication in a series of articles in anthropological and archaeology journals.
Maggie Bolton
(UK) is a Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen, Scotland. She studied for her doctorate at the University of St. Andrews, and subsequently held a Postdoctoral Fellowship, funded by the ESRC, at the University of Manchester. She has conducted ethnographic research in Sud Lípez province in the Department of Potosí, Bolivia since the mid-1990s. Her interests are human-animal relations, particularly among llama herders, and mining. She edited, jointly with Cathrine Degnen, Animals and Science: From colonial encounters to the biotech era (Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010), and has authored various journal articles and book chapters.
Penelope Z. Dransart
(UK) was awarded a DPhil in Ethnology at the University of Oxford in 1991. Until 2016, she was Reader in Anthropology at the University of Wales, Lampeter. Currently she is Honorary Reader at the University of Aberdeen. Since 1986, she has conducted research in Isluga, in the highlands of northern Chile, on pastoralism, atmospheric weather events, and ritual practices in which human herders and herd animals participate. Stemming from these themes, she also studies the use of fleece from vicuñas, guanacos, alpacas and llamas in archaeological and ethnographic textiles as well as the cultural contexts in which colours are used in such textiles.
(Belgium) is a French-Canadian anthropologist, full Professor at Université catholique de Louvain and Director of the Laboratoire d’études prospectives (LAAP), with research expertise on Indigenous cosmologies, Christianization, and human-animal relationships in the Canadian Arctic and in South Asia. He is co-author (with J. Oosten) of Inuit Shamanism and Christianity: Transitions and Transformations in the XXth Century (MQUP, 2010), Hunters, Predators and Prey. Inuit Perceptions of animals (Berghahn Books, 2014), Reverend E.J. Peck and the Inuit, East of Hudson Bay (1876–1919) (Avataq cultural institute, 2019) and Inuit, Oblate Missionaries, and Grey Nuns in. the Keewatin, 1865–1965 (MQUP, 2019). With E. Luce, he has published Pelly Bay 1939–1954, F. Van de Velde photographic codex (PUL, 2019) and with C. Buijs and K. van Dam, People, Places, and Practices in the Arctic (Routledge, 2023). He also edited a series of bilingual books on Indigenous knowledge in Nunavut (see the series Interviewing Inuit Elders; Inuit Perspectives of the Twentieth Century and Memory and History in Nunavut) and in the Philippines, focusing on the Ibaloy, the Blaan, the Ayta and the Alangan traditions (Presses universitaires de Louvain, 2019: https://pul.uclouvain.be/collection/?collection_id=116).
Jan Peter Laurens Loovers
(UK) is a Dutch anthropologist, Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen in the Inuksiutit: Inuit Food Sovereignty in Nunavut project, working in the Arctic over 15 years with research on various themes including dogs, mining, filmmaking, and Indigenous ways of educating. Most recently, he was the Project Curator for the British Museum’s Arctic exhibition and a Research Fellow on a project in Scotland about environmental and social justice in the energy transition at St Andrews University. He is the author of Reading life with Gwich’in (Routledge, 2020) and co-edited (with R. Losey and R.P. Wishart) Dogs in the North (Routledge, 2018) and with A. Lincoln and J. Cooper the acclaimed book, Arctic: culture and climate (Thames & Hudson in collaboration with the British Museum, 2020).
Carlos Emanuel Sautchuk
(Brazil) is Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Brasilia, Brazil, where he coordinates the Laboratory of Anthropology of Science and Technique. He is also an associate member of the group Anthropologie de la vie et des représentations du vivant (LAS, Collège de France) and co-director of the Centre for the Anthropology of Technics and Technodiversity (UCL). Since 2004 he has been carrying out ethnographic fieldwork in the Amazon on fishing, nature conservation and fish domestication, focusing primarily
Felipe Vander Velden
(Brazil) is Associate Professor at the Department of Social Sciences, Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil. He holds a PhD in Social Anthropology (State University of Campinas, Brazil, 2010) and a postdoc at the Department of Anthropology (Aarhus University, Denmark). He also is currently Affiliated Researcher of the ERC Research Project BRASILIAE. Indigenous Knowledge in the Making of Science: Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (Leiden University, The Netherlands). He has been developing ethnographic fieldwork among the Karitiana Indigenous People in southwestern Brazilian Amazon since 2003 with focus on human-animal relations, animal husbandry, hunting, and history. He is author of Inquietas companhias: sobre os animais de criação entre os Karitiana (São Paulo, Alameda, 2012) and Joias da floresta: antropologia do tráfico de animais (São Carlos, Edufscar, 2018) as well as of many articles in anthropological journals.
Robert P. Wishart
(UK) is a Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen, UK. His recent research includes ethnographic, ethnohistorical, and history of science research on human-animal relations in the Canadian North; Indigenous-settler political negotiations; impacts of mining, petroleum development, and wildlife management in the Western Canadian sub-Arctic; and food sovereignty and coastal economies in Scotland.