Community
Participation in Research or Research Participation in Community, examples from Siberia and the
Russian Far East.
David
Koester, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Alaska Anthropological
Association Meetings, April 2002
What does
it mean for research to become a locally meaningful, social actor? What power does it embody and how are
social relations refracted by or repelled from it as a social force. Does or can research have agency or is
it a tool? This talk examines
these questions in the context of research conducted in and for indigenous
communities in Kamchatka, Russia, with some comparison to previous work in
Iceland.