Publications
Articles
2002
Culturescapes vs. Ethnoscapes among Reindeer Herders in Northern Kamchatka. In People and Land in the Russian North. Erich Kasten, editor. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
In Press Raven Tales from Kamchatka. In Voices from the Four Directions. Brian Swann, editor. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
1999
Soul Suckers: Vampiric shamans in Northern Kamchatka, Russia. Anthropology of Consciousness. 10 (4): 74-85.
1994
An Outline of the Symbolic Capital and Domination in the Tlingit Potlatch. In Beiträge des Konferenzes Kommunikation und Humanontogenese an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Reviews Published
2002
Rethmann, P., Tundra Passages: History and Gender in the Russian Far East. In American Ethnologist.
Anderson, D., Identity and Ecology in Arctic Siberia : The Number One Reindeer Brigade. In American Anthropologist. 104(1).
2001
Balzer, M., The Tenacity of Ethnicity: A Siberian Saga in Global Perspective. In The Russian Review. 60(2):297.
1997
Levin, M. ed. Ethnicity and Aboriginality: Case Studies In Ethnonationalism. In American Ethnologist 24(4): 941-42.
Grant, B., In the Soviet House of Culture: A Century of Perestroikas. In American Ethnologist 24(1):239-40.
1995
Slezkine, Y., Arctic Mirrors: Russia and the Small Peoples of the North. In American Anthropologist 97(3): 611-12
Papers Read and Conferences Attended
2001
"Informant, Consultant, or Colleague? Moral Minefields between American 'Ethnographer' and Siberian 'Natives'." American Anthropological Association Meetings, Washington, DC
"Transcribing the Jochelson & Bogoras wax cylinder recordings from 1901." Presentation at opening of special exhibit marking 100th anniversary of Jesup North Pacific Expedition by Vladimir Jochelson in Kamchatka. Palana Regional Museum. Palana, Russia.[in Russian].
"Ethnoscapes vs. Culturescapes: Ethnicity, Place, and Identity in Kamchatka, Russia," Soyuz Annual Symposium on Cultural Studies of Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, Berkeley, CA.
2000
"Reindeer Herders' Landscapes and Culturescapes in the Koryak Autonomous Okrug." Workshop: Postsocialisms in the Russian North. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany.
1999
"This is not my language!" Failure of native language education/revival among the Koryak of Kamchatka, Russia, American Anthropological Association Meetings, Chicago.
Authenticity and the Construction of Native Culture in the Russian Far East, Soyuz Annual Symposium on Cultural Studies of Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, Bloomington.
1998
Soul Suckers: Shamanic Vampires in Northern Kamchatka, Russia, American Anthropological Association Meetings, Philadelphia.
Death, Burial Rituals, and Shamanic Vampires among the Koryak of Kamchatka, lecture sponsored by East Asia Watch, University of Virginia.
1997
The Jesup Expedition, lecture in Russian at the Palana Pedagogical School, Palana, Russian Federation.
1996
The Politics of Culture and Competition for Resources in the Russian Far East, Sixth Annual Symposium on Soviet and Post-Soviet Cultural Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
The Politics of Culture and Competition for Resources in the Russian Far East, Twelfth Annual Graduate Symposium on Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of Virginia.
1995
The Adventures of Bird Man, Fifth Annual Symposium on Soviet and Post-Soviet Cultural Studies, Columbia University.
The Adventures of Bird-Men: An Introduction to Koryak Ethnopoetics, presented to the Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia.
1994
A Critique of Geertz’s Theory of Culture as Text, Graduate Symposium on Bodies and Text, English Department, University of Virginia.
1993
An Outline of the Symbolic Capital and Domination in the Tlingit Potlatch. Konferenz Kommunikation und Humanontogenese an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Translations and Editing
2002
Koryak Autonomous Okrug, Magadan Oblast. Contributing editor. In Josh Newell and Emma Wilson, eds. The Russian Far East: Forests, Biodiversity Hotspots, and Industrial Developments. Tokyo: Friends of the Earth-Japan.
1999
Chapter 12: Social Programs in Northern Villages: Employment, Education, and Health. In Neotraditionalism in the Russian North: Indigenous Peoples and the Legacy of Perestroika. Aleksandr Pika, editor. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Dissertation
Trying to be Koryak: Soviet Constructions of Indigeneity in Kamchatka, Russia