The Bata Shoe Museum Foundation has funded field trips to collect and research footwear in Asia, Europe, and circumpolar regions and cultures where traditions are changing rapidly ( Siberia, Alaska, Greenland, the Canadian Inuit and the Saami people ).
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For a thorough, but fascinating, look at the circumpolar region's history and culture, natural resources and social and environmental concerns, see Arctic Circle, overseen by Norman Chance, an Arctic anthropologist at the University of Connecticut ( arcticcircle . uconn . edu ).
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ICC holds a General Assembly every four years, bringing together Inuit from across the northern circumpolar region to discuss issues of international importance to their communities, provide direction for the work of the organization over the next four years, and divide responsibility for issue areas between the national offices.
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Smith also criticized the field of transpersonal psychology for an over-emphasis on Eastern mysticisms and practices [ Psych & Sacred 12-13 ], claiming that more attention needed to be given to western religious traditions, to the indigenous American and shamanic peoples of the circumpolar regions, and of the Americas, North, Central, and South.
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The right ascension of any object crossing the meridian is equal to the current local ( apparent ) sidereal time, ignoring for present purposes that part of the circumpolar region north of the north celestial pole ( for an observer in the northern hemisphere ) or south of the south celestial pole ( for an observer in the southern hemisphere ) that is crossing the meridian the other way.
