Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology: Siberia Project
Curriculum Vitae
John Peter Ziker, Ph.D.
Work:
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
P.O. Box 11 03 51
Halle/Saale 06017
Germany
49-345-292-7225
49-345-292-7502 (fax)
e-mail: ziker@eth.mpg.de
Education
1998 Ph.D. in Anthropology, UC Santa Barbara
Dissertation Title: Kinship, Exchange, and Ethnicity Among the Dolgan and
Nganasan of Northern Siberia
1992 M.A. in Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara
1988 B.A. in Anthropology, summa cum laude, Honor's College, Arizona State University
Kinship, Social Organization, and Demography
Economic Anthropology
Common-Pool Property
Non-Market Economics
Human Behavioral Ecology
Circumpolar Ethnology
Medical Anthropology
Russia/Former Soviet Union
Research Fellow, 2001-2002, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle Germany
Term Assistant Professor, 2000-2001, Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Visiting Assistant Professor, Spring 1999 and Spring 2000, Department of Anthropology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
2002. Peoples of the Tundra: Native Siberians in the Post Communist Transition. Prospect Heights, Ill.: Waveland Press, Inc.
2002. "Raw and Cooked in Arctic Siberia: Seasonality, Gender and Diet among the Dolgan and Nganasan Hunter Gatherers." Nutritional Anthropology 25(2): 20-33.
2002. “Land Use and Economic Change among the Dolgan and the Nganasan.” Pp. 191-208 in E. Kasten (ed.) People and the Land: Pathways to Reform in Post-Soviet Siberia, Vol. 1, Dietrich Reimer Verlag.
2002. “Assigned Territories, Family/Clan Holdings, and Common-Pool Resources in the Taimyr Autonomous Region, Northern Russia.” Working Paper of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology No. 32.
2001. “Traditsionnaia Pishcha i Pitanie Dolgan i Nganasan” [“Traditional Food and Nutrition of the Dolgan and Nganasan.”] Pp. 152-156 in David G. Anderson (ed.) Sel’skoe Zdravookhranenie u Malochislennykh Narodov Severa Kanady i Rossii, Chast’ 2, Narodnaia Medistina. [Village Health Care among the Small-Numbering Peoples of the Canadian and Russian North, Part 2, Folk Medicine.] Novosibirsk: Sibprint Agency. English text.
2001. “Land Use and Social Change among the Dolgan and Nganasan of Northern Siberia.” Pp. 47-66 in David G. Anderson and Kazunobo Ikeya (eds.) Parks, Property, Power: Managing Hunting Practice and Identity within State Policy Regimes. Senri Ethnological Studies No. 59. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology.
1999. “Survival Economy and Core-Periphery Dynamics in the Taimyr Autonomous Region, Russia.” Anthropology of Eastern Europe Review 17(2):59-65.
1998. “Land Tenure and Economic Collapse in Northern Siberia.” Arctic Research in the U.S. Volume 12, pp. 73-80. Arlington, VA: National Science Foundation, Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee.
1998. “Kinship and Exchange Among the Dolgan and Nganasan of Northern Siberia.” Pp. 191-238 in Barry Isaac (ed.) Research in Economic Anthropology, Volume 19. Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press.
1996a. “Obsuzhdeniye Proekta Zakona Rossiiskoi Federatsii ‘Osnovy Pravovogo Statusa Korennykh Narodov Severa.’” [“Comments on the Draft Law of the Russian Federation on Fundamentals of Legal Status for the Native Peoples of the North."] Etnograficheskoye Obozreniye 2:134-135
1996b. “Problems of the North,” Pp: 59-75 in Kathryn Lyon, Laada Bilaniuk, and Ben Fitzhugh (eds.) Michigan Discussions in Anthropology, Vol. 12: Post-Soviet Eurasia: Anthropological Perspectives on a World in Transition.
Submitted. “Assigned Territories, Family/Clan Holdings, and Common-Pool Resources: Property Relations Among the Dolgan and Nganasan in the Taimyr Autonomous Region, Northern Russia.” Human Ecology.
In prep. “Food Sharing at Meals among Dolgan and Nganasan Hunter-Gatherers of Arctic Siberia.”
1997. [in Russian] Ziker, John and Ivan Shmetterling, “Robinzony i Pyatnisty, Odnako.” [“Robinsons and Fridays, You Don’t Say.”] Ekspert 48:82-85, 15 December 1997.
2000-2001 L.S.B. Leakey Foundation, Standard Grant: The Behavioral Ecology of Food Sharing among North Siberian Foragers.
2000-2001 American Council of Teachers of Russian, Regional Exchange Scholar Program: The Behavioral Ecology of Food Sharing among North Siberian Foragers.
2000-2001 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research (Richard Carley Hunt Fellowship): Tiajono-Nya—People of the Tundra in the Post-Communist Transition.
July 1 – December 31, 1999, Research Scholar, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
1996/1997 International Research and Exchanges Board, Individual Advanced Research Opportunities Fellowship
1996 National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant, Arctic Social Sciences, Award # 9528936, (P.I. Professor Napoleon A. Chagnon)
American Council of Teachers of Russia/U.S. Department of State, Program for Research & Training on Eastern Europe and the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union, 1996 Combined Research and Training Fellowship
1995/1996 Humanities/Social Science Research Grant, University of California, Santa Barbara
American Council of Teachers of Russian/U.S. Information Agency, 1993/1994 Research Scholar Fellowship at Moscow State University, Russia
1998/1999 UCSB Graduate Division Travel Grant: CHAGS 8, Osaka, Japan
Dissertation Fellowship, Fall 1998, Graduate Division, UC Santa Barbara
Dissertation Fellowship, Spring 1998, Anthropology/Graduate Division, UC Santa Barbara
Elman Service Fellowships, 1997/1998, 1996/1997, 1995/1996, Anthropology Department, UC Santa Barbara
Continuing Graduate Student Fellowships, Fall 1997, 1996/1997, Winter and Spring 1995, 1993/1994, Graduate Division, University of California, Santa Barbara
Regents' and Tuition Fellowship, 1991-1992, University of California, Santa Barbara
Cynthia Lakin Award, 1988, Anthropology Department, Arizona State University
Phi Beta Kappa, Beta Branch, 1987, Arizona State University
2002. "The Food Sharing Debate: A Case Study From Siberia." Ninth International Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies, Edinburgh, Scotland, September 9.
2002. "Socio-Ecological Contests of Livestock Theft." Collective and Multiple Forms of Property in Land and Animals, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale) August 21.
2002. "Theoretical Approaches in the United States." Who Owns Siberian
Ethnography?
An International Workshop on Methods and Approaches to Ethnography in the
Russian North, Halle/Saale, Germany, March 7.
2002. "Kinship, Friendship, and Public Goods in Native Siberian Food
Sharing." Tagung: Verwandtschaft und Freundshaft. Zur Unterscheidung
und Relevanz zweier Beziehungssysteme. Bielefeld, Germany, February 10.
2001. “The Raw and the Cooked in Arctic Siberia: Seasonality, Gender and Diet among the Dolgan and Nganasan Hunter Gatherers.” Paper presented to the 100th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, November 28.
2001. “The Dolgan of Northern Russia: Native Language in School and Community.” Paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the Alaskan Anthropological Association, Fairbanks, AK, March 23.
2001. “Clan Holdings, Assigned Territories, and Common Pool Resources: Land Tenure Developments in the Taimyr Autonomous Region, Northern Russia.” Paper presented to the 40th Annual Meeting of the Western Regional Science Association, Palm Springs, CA, February 28.
2002. Ziker, J. and A. Venstel. Reindeer Herding and Hunting Among the Dolgan: A Comparative Study of Property Relations in the Russian Far North. European Association for Social Anthropology, 7th Biennial Conference, Copenhagen, August 14-17.
1997. Chagnon, N.A., Ziker, J., Thompson, B., Price, M. & Eerkens, J. “The Density of Kinship in Tribal and Peasant Communities.” Ninth Annual Meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, June 5.
May-November 2001, St. Petersburg and Taimyr Autonomous Region: I spent six months in Russia working on publications and conducting ethnographic field work on two projects (see grants above). The scientific-technical exchange was supported by a grant from the American Council of Teachers of Russian.
March-November 1997, Russia, Northern Siberia: I conducted dissertation improvement research as a 1996/1997 IREX Individual Advanced Research Opportunities scholar with further support from NSF Award # 9528936.
November -June 1995-1996 and September-November 1996, Russia, Northern Siberia: I conducted dissertation research with support from the US Department of State, Program for Research & Training on Eastern Europe and the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union (Title VIII) Combined Research and Training Fellowship, administered by the ACTR/ACCELS Research Scholar Program, as well as with support from NSF Award # 9528936, and a UCSB Humanities/Social Science Research Grant.
September-June, 1993-1994, Russia, Northern Siberia: As a U.S. Information Agency Research Scholar in the Ethnography Department, History Faculty, Moscow State University, I spent two months in the proposed dissertation focal community and received approval for my research. I also conducted research at the Institute of Scientific Information for the Social Sciences and at the library of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology.
July-September, 1992, Russia, Northern Siberia: I made a one month trip to the Taimyr Region of northern Krasnoyarskii Krai to study the feasibility of dissertation research.
March 1989-June 1991, Russia, Armenia, Kazakstan: I made five trips to the Soviet Union during my employment as project manager for Kiser Research Inc., Washington, DC.
February-May, 1988, Russia, Uzbekistan: I completed a three month intensive Russian language course at the Moscow Energy Institute, a program administered by the American Council of Teachers of Russian.
Summer, 1986, Norwich University: I completed an intensive summer course in Russian language.
Membership in Professional Societies
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