Publications
Monographs
2013 (in prep.)
Das Kulturhaus in Russland: Performance eines Idealzustands [The House of Culture in Russia: performance of an ideal state].
2005
What it Means to Be a Herdsman: the practice and image of reindeer husbandry among the Komi of Northern Russia. Münster: LIT. xxiv, 271 pp.
1998
Seßhaftwerdung und Seßhaftmachung sibirischer Rentiernomaden: Siedlungsstruktur und Siedlungsgeschichte im Ewenkischen Autonomen Kreis [Sedentarization of Siberian Reindeer Nomads in the Evenki Autonomous Okrug] Münster: Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Geographie. (Berichte aus dem Arbeitsgebiet Entwicklungsforschung am Institut für Geographie Münster. 30). iv, 115 S. [Published diploma thesis]
Edited collected volumes
2012 (in prep.)
With Judith Miggelbrink and Florian Stammler:
Nomadic and Indigenous Spaces: productions and cognitions.
2012
With Wieland Hintzsche:
Die Erforschung Sibiriens im 18. Jahrhundert: Beiträge der Deutsch-Russischen Begegnungen in den Franckeschen Stiftungen [Research on Siberia in the 18th Century: German-Russian Encounters in the Francke Foundations]. Halle: Verlag der Franckeschen Stiftungen.
2011
With Brian Donahoe:
Reconstructing the House of Culture: community, self, and the makings of culture in Russia and beyond. New York: Berghahn.
2005
With Peter Kuhry und Vasilii Ponomarev:
Ustoichivoe razvitie Pechorskogo regiona v izmeniaiushchikhsia usloviiakh prirody i obshchestva [Sustainable Development of the Petchora Region in View of Changing Natural and Social Conditions]. Syktyvkar: Institut biologii Komi nauchnogo tsentra Ural’skogo otdeleniia Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk.
Contributions to edited volumes
2011
“Komi Reindeer Herders: syncretic and pragmatic notions of being in the tundra”. In: Peter Jordan (ed.): Landscape and Culture in Northern Eurasia, pp. 279-296. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.
"‘Es ist keine Schande, im 20. Jahrhundert Nomade zu sein’: Sesshaftmachung im Hohen Norden der Sowjetunion.“ [‘It is not a Shame to be a Nomad in the 20th Century‘: Sedentarization in Russia’s Far North] In: Jörg Gertel und Sandra Calkins (eds.): Nomaden in unserer Welt. Die Vorreiter der Globalisierung: Von Mobilität und Handel, Herrschaft und Widerstand, pp. 262-271. Bielefeld: transcript.
“Introduction: cultivation, collective, and the self”. In: Donahoe and Habeck (eds.) 2011, pp. 1-25.
“ ‘Thank You for Being’: neighborhood, ethno-culture, and social recognition in the House of Culture”. In: Donahoe and Habeck (eds.) 2011, pp. 55-73.
With Brian Donahoe und Siegfried Gruber: “Constellations of Culture Work in Present-Day Siberia”. In: Donahoe and Habeck (eds.) 2011, pp. 137-160.
With Brian Donahoe, Agnieszka Halemba, Kirill Istomin, István Sántha und Virginie Vaté: “Research Design and Methodology of the Comparative Research Project ‘The Social Significance of the House of Culture’”. In: Donahoe and Habeck (eds.) 2011, pp. 277-291.
2010
With Piers Vitebsky, Jean Comaroff, Andrei Costopoulos and Federico Navarrete: “Etnograficheskie issledovaniia na Severe i ikh vklad v global’-nuiu antropologiiu: popytka otsenit’ sovremennuiu situatsiiu” [parallel title:] “Ethnographic researches in the North and their contribution to global anthropology: an attempt at defining the present situation”. In: Irina V. Oktiabrskaia (ed.): Sever i iug: dialog kul’tur i tsivilizatsii (materialy mezhdunarodnogo seminara), [parallel title:] North and South: dialogue between cultures and civilizations, pp. 63-66. Novosibirsk: IAE SO RAN.
2009
“Minzu shenfen wai de ziwo rentong” [Identity beyond ethnicity]. In: Namsaraeva, Sayana and Ni Ma (eds.), Wang Yudeng (transl.): Makesi Pulangke shehui renleixue yanjiusuo: Xibolia huigu [Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology: an overview of research on Siberia], pp. 197-208. Beijing: Minzu chubanshe.
2007
“Rol’ domov kul’tury v transliatsii etnichnosti” [The Role of the Houses of Culture in the Translation of Ethnicity]. In: Iurii Popkov (ed.): Etnosotsial’nye protsessy v Sibiri: tematicheskii sbornik, vypusk 8, pp. 63-66. Novosibirsk: Sibirskoe nauchnoe izdatel’stvo.
2006
“Zwischen Popkultur und Hochkultur: die Musikszene einer russischen Großstadt” [Between Popculture and High Culture: the music scene in a Russian Metropolis]. In: Rüdiger Fikentscher (ed.): Europäische Gruppenkulturen, pp. 121-138. Halle (Saale): Mitteldeutscher Verlag.
2005
“Dimensions of Identity”. In: Erich Kasten (ed.): Rebuilding Identities: pathways to reform in post-Soviet Siberia, pp. 9-25. Berlin: Reimer.
“Gender and kul’tura at the Siberian and Northern Russian Frontier”. In: Haldis Haukanes and Frances Pine (eds.): Generations, Kinship and Care: gendered provisions of social security in Central Eastern Europe, pp. 189-206. Bergen: University of Bergen, Centre for Women’s and Gender Research.
2002
“How to Turn a Reindeer Pasture into an Oil Well, and vice versa: Transfer of Land, Compensation and Reclamation in the Komi Republic”. In: Erich Kasten (ed.): People and the Land: pathways to reform in post-Soviet Siberia, pp. 125-147. Berlin: Reimer.
“ ‘Vi gør vores arbejde og de gør deres arbejde’: rendrift og olieproduktion i det Nordøstlige Europa (Komiernes og nenetsernes regioner) [“We do our work and they do their work”: reindeer herding and oil production in north-eastern Europe (Komi and Nenets territories)]. In: Claus Oreskov (ed.): Tundraens og tajgaens folk: En antropologisk, religionssociologisk, folkloristisk og biologisk fremstilling af de russiske urfolks situation i dag, pp. 45-58. København: INFONOR.
2001
“Olenevodstvo i neftegazodobycha: mogut li oni sosushchest¬vovat’?” [Reindeer Husbandry and Oil Production: can they coexist?] In: Iurii Popkov (ed.): Etnosotsial’nye protsessy v Sibiri: tematicheskii sbornik, vypusk 4, pp. 90-92. Novosibirsk: Novosibirskii gosudarstvennyi universitet.
1998
“The Existing and Potential Role of the Internet for Indigenous Communities in the Russian Federation”. In: Erich Kasten (ed): Bicultural Education in the North: ways of preserving and enhancing indigenous peoples’ languages and traditional knowledge, pp. 275-287. Münster: Waxmann.
1996
“Zemleustroistvo i raionirovanie na Krainem Severe: Istoricheskii ocherk na primere Evenkiiskogo avtonomnogo okruga” [Land Distribution and Zoning in the Far North: a historic sketch using the example of Evenk Autonomous Okrug]. In: Erich Kasten and Elena Dul’chenko (eds.): Resursy traditsionnogo prirodopol’zovaniia narodov Severa i Dal’nego Vostoka Rossii, pp. 131-140. Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskii: Kamshat.
Articles in refereed academic journals
2009
With Aimar Ventsel:
„Consumption and Popular Culture Among Youth in Siberia“. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 134 (1): 1-22.
2008
With Brian Donahoe, Agnieszka Halemba und István Sántha:
“Size and Place in the Construction of Indigeneity in the Russian Federation”. Current Anthropology, 49 (6): 993-1020.
2006
With Tony R. Walker, Timo P. Karjalainen, Tarmo Virtanen, Nadia Solovieva, Viv Jones, Peter Kuhry, Vasily I. Ponomarev, Kari Mikkola, Ari Nikula, Elena Patova, Peter D. Crittenden, Scott D. Young und Tim Ingold:
“Perceived and Measured Levels of Environmental Pollution: interdisciplinary research in the subarctic lowlands of northeast European Russia”. Ambio, 35 (5): 220-228.
“Experience, Movement and Mobility: Komi reindeer herders’ perception of the environment”. Nomadic Peoples, new series 10 (2): 123-141.
“Gender, ‘kul’tura’, severnye prostory” [Gender, “kul’tura”, Northern Expanses]. Etnograficheskoe obozrenie, 2006 (4): 59-68.
2004
“Introduction: growing research on youth in Siberia”. Sibirica, 4 (1): 2-13.
With Timo Pauli Karjalainen:
“When ‘the Environment’ Comes to Visit: local environmental knowledge in the Far North of Russia. Environmental Values, 13 (2): 167-186.
Articles in non-refereed academic journals
2010
“Sibirevedcheskie issledovaniia v Institute sotsial’noi antropologii im. Maksa Planka v g. Galle (1999-2008 gg.)" [Research on Siberia at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (1999-2008)]. Novyi istoricheskii vestnik, 26 (2010 N°4): 83-93.
With Ol’ga Povoroznyuk und Virginie Vaté:
Introduction: On the definition, theory, and practice of gender shift in the North of Russia". Anthropology of East Europe Review, 28 (2): 1-37.
2009
“Does Life Make More Sense Now? Young people’s life projects and the new feeling of stability in Russia”. Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore, 41: 189-206.
2007
“Enacting ‘Culture’ and ‘Culturedness’: why people may or may not want
to spend their free time in the House of Culture”. kultura: Russian Cultural Review 1/2007: 14-18.
“Leisure Activities: realization of self and society”. kultura: Russian Cultural Review 1/2007: 2.
2005
“Rossiiasa voivylyn komiias pövstyn kör vidzöm da kör vidzan udzhsö pyddi puktöm” [Practices and Images of Reindeer Husbandry among the Komi in Russia’s Far North]. Voivyv kodzuv (byd tölyssia literaturno-khudozhestvennöi zhurnal), 2005 (4): 73-77.
1997
“Jäger und Verjagte: Rentiernomaden und Deportierte in Mittelsibirien” [Hunters and Exiles: reindeer nomads and deportees in Central Siberia]. Forschungen zur Geschichte und Kultur der Rußlanddeutschen, 7: 5-16.
Reports and working papers
2009
“Kulturhäuser in Russland und ihre gegenwärtige gesellschaftliche Bedeutung”[Houses of Culture and their Current Social Significance]. Max Planck Society Yearbook 2009. München: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V.
2008
“Conditions and Limitations of Lifestyle Plurality in Siberia: a research pro-gramme”. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Paper Series, 104. Halle (Saale): Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.
2007 (2008)
With Monika Huch: “Das Internationale Polarjahr 2007/08” [The International Polar Year 2007/2008]. Polarforschung, 77 (2-3), 98-100.
2006
“Social/Human Science Efforts under the German IPY Programme”.
Northern Notes: the newsletter of the International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA), Summer 2006: 13.
2005
“Kulturlandschaft Sibirien” [Siberia as a Cultural Landscape]. In: Max Planck Society Yearbook 2005, online edition.
With Fernanda Pirie, Julia Eckert and Aimar Ventsel:
“What it Takes to Be a Man: constructions of masculinity”. In: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Report 2004–2005, pp. 35-50. Halle (Saale).
2002
“The Future Prospects for Reindeer Husbandry in Russia”. In: Päivi Soppela, Walter Ruth, and Jan Åge Riseth (eds.): Reindeer as a keystone species in the North – biological, cultural and socio-economic aspects: Proceedings of the 1st CAES PhD Course, 1-15 September 2000, northern Finland, Finnmark, Norway, and Kola Peninsula, Russia, pp. 44-54. Rovaniemi: Arctic Centre. (Arctic Centre Reports, 38).
Reviews
2007
Book review of “Russia gets the Blues: music, culture, and community in unsettled times” (Michael Urban in cooperation with Andrei Evdokimov). Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (new series), 13: 223-260.
Entries in encyclopedias
2011
With Kirill Istomin: “Komi”. In: Nippa, Annegret (ed.): Kleines abc des Nomadismus, p. 124. Hamburg: Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg.
With Kirill Istomin: “Nenzen”. In: Nippa, Annegret (ed.): Kleines abc des Nomadismus, p. 136. Hamburg: Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg.
With Kirill Istomin and Annegret Nippa:
“Orientierung”. In: Nippa, Annegret (ed.): Kleines abc des Nomadismus,
pp. 150-151. Hamburg: Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg.
With Kirill Istomin: “Sowjetunion”. In: Nippa, Annegret (ed.): Kleines abc des Nomadismus, pp. 196-198. Hamburg: Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg.
With Kirill Istomin: “Taiga und Tundra”. In: Nippa, Annegret (ed.): Kleines abc des Nomadismus, p. 208. Hamburg: Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg.
2005
“Pechora Basin”. In: Mark Nuttall (ed.): Encyclopedia of the Arctic, vol. 3, p. 1603. New York: Routledge.
“Tungus”. In: Mark Nuttall (ed.): Encyclopedia of the Arctic, vol. 3, pp. 2073-2074. New York: Routledge.
“Vasilevich, Glafira Makar’evna”. In: Mark Nuttall (ed.): Encyclopedia of the Arctic, vol. 3, pp. 2120-2122. New York: Routledge.