ERICH KASTEN
Research interests
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REGIONS:

  • Circumpolar North 
  • Scandinavia (Sámi)   
  • North Pacific Rim (Vancouver Island and Lower Mainland)
  • Russian Far East (Kamchatka) 


THEMES & PUBLICATIONS:

  • Ethnohistory and History of Anthropology 
  • Ethnicity and Political Organization 
  • Political Economy and Sustainable Development 
  • Bicultural Education and Endangered Languages
  • Rituals and Ceremonial Life 
  • Native Arts and Exhibitions 
  • Property Relations and Cultural Heritage 
  • Visual Anthropology and Multimedia
    •  SERIES EDITORSHIPS
  • Ethnographic library on CD (with Michael Duerr). Waxmann Verlag: Münster/New York
  • Posobiia po yazyku i kul'ture korennykh narodov Kamchatki. Izdatel'stvo Kamshat: Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski 
  • Siberian Studies. Dietrich Reimer Verlag Berlin
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    INSTITUTIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:   

    • University of Victoria, Canada [1988]
    • Freie Universität Berlin [1993-1997]
    • Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle [2000-2002]
    • Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin [2002-2003]
    • Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde, München [2004] 
    CONSULTANT / PROJECT MANAGER:   
    • Franckesche Stiftungen, Halle [1996-2000]
    • Columbia University, CERC, New York [1998]
    • Environmental Defense Fund, New York [1999]
    • Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin [1999]
    • Westfälisches Museum für Naturkunde, Münster [2003]
    • UNESCO, Moscow [2003-2004]
    • Zentral- und Landesbibliothek, Berlin [2005]
    • Linden-Museum Stuttgart [2007-2009]
    Last update: 20 January 2009