Ethnicity and Identity of Northern Peoples（October 12-14, 2000）

Preface

　Due to the rapid environmental, political and economic upheavals that northern regions are currently experiencing, the cultures of northern peoples are also changing dramatically. Such upheavals are no longer the province solely of individual ethnic groups or nations, but are also being recognized as international issues. Efforts to revitalize northern peoples' cultures, maintain their identities, reestablish relationships between ethnic groups and nations, rethink of relationships between man and nature, solve ethnic conflicts, and promote coexistence and mutual understanding among people with different cultural backgrounds are some of the challenges that will face humanity in the 21st century.
　At this international conference, therefore, a comparative study will be conducted on the status of ethnicity and identities of circumpolar peoples, including northern Eurasia, Japan and North America. This study will be conducted based on case studies presented and discussed from various points of view by the multi – national group of scholars. Then, the purpose of this conference is to understand the current ethnic and cultural dynamics in northern regions and to clarify our challenges in the 21st century by taking an ethnological approach.
　This conference will present one possible answer to a universally acknowledged anthropological question, "what are human beings?" It will be academically significant if we succeed in presenting an answer -- based on research on northern regions, and by clarifying the true meaning of ethnicity and identity and their relationships -- to this most difficult but fascinating and challenging question, and if we help establish new anthropological theories and methodologies.

　The Organizing Committee of the conference consists of following people:
Advisory Committee
Miyaoka, Osahito Osaka Gakuin University
Namita, Katsunosuke Hokkaido University
Pentikäinen, Juha University of Helsinki
Sharp, Henry University of Virginia

Acting Committee
Ikeya, Kazunobu National Museum of Ethnology
Irimoto, Takashi Hokkaido University
Kishigami, Nobuhiro National Museum of Ethnology
Sasaki, Toru Hokkaido University
Yamada, Takako Kyoto University

　The conference is hosted by the Hokkaido University and supported by the Northern Studies Association.
Irimoto, Takashi, Ph.D. Yamada, Takako, D.Sc.
Conference Chair Co-Chair

Program

October 12 (Thursday)

09:00‐17:00　Registration: Sapporo Guest House
09:00‐09:10　Opening Address by IRIMOTO, Takashi
09:10‐09:20　Welcome Address by
TANBO, Nobuhito, President of Hokkaido University
KATAURA, Nobuo, Mayor of Sapporo City

Session 1: Ethnicity and Identity in Japan and among the Ainu（09:20‐10:40）
NAKAMOTO, Mutsuko (Association for the Transmission and Preservation of Ainu Intangible Culture, Japan)“Reapreciating Ainu Culture”
KAIZAWA, Koichi (Biratori Association for the Preservation of Ainu Culture, Japan)“Ainu Mentality”
IRIMOTO, Takashi (Hokkaido University, Japan)“Ainu Identity and Ethnic Symbiosis in Akan Marimo (Lake - Ball) Festival”

Session 2: Ethnicity and Identity of Alaskan Eskimos and Canadian Inuit（10:40‐12:00）
CHARLES George P. (University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA) “Ethnicity and Identity of the Yupiaq Eskimos”
FIENUP‐Riordan, Ann (National Archive, USA)“Yup'ik "Culturalism" and the Calista Elders Council”
KISHIGAMI, Nobuhiro (National Museum of Ethnology, Japan)“Identities of Inuit in Canada : Being an Inuk and Resource Sharing”
12:00‐13:30　Lunch
Session 2 (Continued)（13:30‐14:20）
TURNER, Edith (University of Virginia, USA)“Advocacy Anthropology among the Inupiat of Northern Alaska and the General Role of Ethnology in the Present Decade"
MIYAOKA, Osahito (Osaka Gakuin University, Japan)“Japanese Project on Endangered Languages of the Pacific Rim”

Session 3: Ethnicity and Identity of Northern American Natives（14:20‐15:40）
FEIT, Harvey (McMaster University, Canada)“Counter-Identities: The Politics and Culture of ‘Whiteman’ and Indian Pratices”
OHMAGARI, Kayo (The Institute of Cetacean Research, Japan)“Identity Development among the Western James Bay Cree”
SHARP Henry S. (University of Virginia, USA)“Changing Times”
15:40‐16:00　Coffee Break

Session 3 (Continued)（16:00‐17:20）
DYCK, Noel (Simon Fraser University, Canada)“The Politics of Indian Residential Schooling in Northern Saskatchewan”
RIDINGTON, Robin (University of British Colombia, Canada)& RIDINGTON, Jillian“Maintaining Dane - Zaa Identity: "Those Story I Remember, That's What I Live by "”
INOUE, Toshiaki (Josai International University, Japan)“the Gwich'in Gathering: The Gathering against Oil Development by the Gwich'in Athabascan and the Subsistence Activities in Their Modern Life”
18:00‐19:30　Opening Party

October 13 (Friday)

09:00‐17:00　Registration: Sapporo Guest House
Session 4: Ethnicity and Identity of North Asian and Siberian Peoples（09:30‐11:40）
PENTIKÄINEN, Juha (University of Helsinki, Finland)“Northern Ethnicity and Identity”
YAMADA, Takako (Kyoto University, Japan)“Symbiosis with Nature: A Message for Reconstruction Sakha Ethnicity and Identity”
GLAVATSKAIA, Elena (Urals State University, Russia)“Religious and Ethnic Revitalization among the Siberian Indigenous People”
ANDERSON, David (Aberdeen University, Scotland)“Nationality and ‘Aboriginal Rights’ in post-Soviet Siberia”
IKAYA, Kazunobu (National Museum of Ethnology, Japan)“Preservation of the Identity of the Chukchee amid Changes in Reindeer Pastoralism”
11:40‐13:30　Lunch

Session 4 (Continued)（13:30‐14:50）
KUREBITO, Megumi (Toyama University, Japan)“Noun Incorporation in Koryak as a Linguistic Identity”
HOPPÁL, Mihály (European Folklore Institute, Hungary)“Politics of Ethnic Identity and Nordic Shamanism Today”
HAMAYON, Roberte (Sorbonne, EPHE V,゜France)“Reconstructing Identity and "Heroic" Millenarism in Buryatia”
14:50‐15:10　Coffee Break

Session 5: Ethnicity and Identity of the Mongols and the Sami（15:10‐17:50）
TUMEN, Dashtseveg (National University of Mongolia)“Linguistic, Cultural and Morphological Characteristics of Mongolian Populations”
ALTA (Hokkaieo University, Japan)“Ecological Change and Identity of Chahar Mongols”
YUN, Xiaomei (Hokkaido University, Japan)“Ethnic Identity of Tumed Mongols in Inner Mongolia”
MAGGA, Ole-Henrik (Sami Collage, Norway)“Cultural Rights for the Sami People in Norway - Past and Present”
GASKI, Harald (University of Tromsø, Norway)“A Reindeer Herd Migrating on Paper: Tracking a New Route on the Identity Path”
RYDVING Håkan (University of Bergen, Norway)“Language Proficiency and Ethnicity: The Sami Case”
17:50‐18:20　General Discussion IRIMOTO, Takashi (Hokkaido University, Japan)
18:00‐19:30　Party

October 14 (Saturday)

08:30‐12:00　Excursion to Hokkaido University Botanical Garden/ Museum/ University Museum SASAKI, Toru (Hokkaido University, Japan)
12:00‐13:00　Lunch
12:00‐15:00　Registration
Special Lecture University Conference Hall, Hokkaido University
1. 13:15‐13:45　IRIMOTO, Takashi (Hokkaido University, Japan)“Ethnicity and Identity of Northern Peoples”
2. 13:45‐14:45　OKER, Garry (Dane-zaa First Nations, Canada)“Dane-zaa First Nations: Changes and Continuity”
3. 14:45‐16:00　VALKEAPÄÄ, Nils-Aslak (Poet, Norway)“Poetry Concert of the Yoik”
16:00　Closing
17:00‐19:00　Farewell Party
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