Publications

In print
Atributivny stil i problema pianstva i samoubiystv sredi malochislennykh korennykh narodov Severa i Sibiri [Attribution style and the problem of alcoholism and suicides among the small-numbered peoples of North and Siberia]. Etnograficheskoye Obozreniye.

2010
(with Mark Dwyer). Dynamic Mutual Adaptation: Human-Animal Interaction in Reindeer Herding Pastoralism. Human Ecology 38 (5), pp. 613 - 623.

2009
(with Mark Dwyer). Komi reindeer herding: the effects of socialist and post-socialist change on mobility and land use. Polar Research 28 (2), pp. 282 - 297.

(with Mark Dwyer). Technological carrying capacity renders ecological carrying capacity a redundant concept in pastoralist systems? A case study of “overgrazing” amongst Komi and Nenets reindeer herders. In: Sustainability in Karamoja? Rethinking the Terms of Global Sustainability in a Crisis Region of Africa. Edited by David Knaute and Sacha Kagan, pp. 271 – 287. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.

(with Mark Dwyer). Finding the Way: A Critical Discussion of Anthropological Theories of Human Spatial Orientation with Reference to Reindeer Herders of Northeastern Europe and Western Siberia. Current Anthropology 50 (1), pp. 29 – 49.

2008
(with Mark Dwyer). Theories of Nomadic Movement: A new Theoretical Approach for Understanding the Movement Decisions of Nenets and Komi Reindeer Herders. Human Ecology 36 (4), pp. 521-533.

2007
(with Brian Donahoe). Izmenenie praktiki regulirovania dostupa k resursam u nekotoryh olenevodcheskih narodov Sibiri. Popytka teoreticheskogo obobsheniya [The change of tenuriality among some Siberian reindeer herding peoples. An attempt of atheoretical generalization] In: Funk, D. A. (ed.) Rasy i narody: sovremennye etnicheskiye i rassovye problemy. Vypusk 33. – Moscow: Nauka. Pp. 128 – 163.

2006
(with Mark Dwyer). Mobility and Technology: understanding
the vulnerability of two groups of nomadic pastoralists to reindeer losses. Nomadic Peoples 10 (2), pp. 142 -165.

My smotrim na mir – mir smotrit na nas: predmetno-prostranstvennye otnosheniya i ih oboznacheniye kak element semioticheskoy kartiny mira [We look at the world – the world looks at us: the linguistic expression of spatial relations as an element of the semiotic world picture]. In: Fadeeva, I. E. (ed.) Semiosis i Kultura: Sbornik nauchnyh statey. Vol. 2. – Syktyvkar: Komi Pedagogical Institute. Pp. 130 – 136.

2005
Komi-Izhemskoye olenevodstvo. Istoriografiya dvuh vekov izucheniya [Komi-Izhma reindeer herding. The History of the two Centuries of Research]. Studia Juvenalia 2 – Syktyvkar: Komi Science Center. Pp. 88 – 102.

2004
"Oil and Reindeer - Traditional Methods of Pasture Selection among Komi Herders and the Relevance to Conflicts over Land Use". In: Northern Veche: Proceedings of the Second NRF Open Meeting. Akureyri: Stefansson Arctic Institute & University of Akureyri, pp. 184 - 187 (English version) and pp. 177 - 180 (Russian version)

2003
(with T. I. Dronova). "Mezhetnicheskoye vzaimodeystviye v Pechorskom Kraye: nentsy, russkiye (ust'tsylema) i komi-izhemtsy" [Inter-ethnic interaction in the Pechora Region: Nenets, Russians (Ust'-Tsylema) and Izhma Komi]. Etnograficheskoye Obozreniye 5, pp. 54 - 67.

"O nekotorykh malozatratnykh merakh po uluchsheniyu vzaimodeystviya mezhdu neftyanymi kompaniyami i olenevodami" [On some inexpensive measures for improving the interactions between oil companies and reindeer herders]. Mir korennykh narodov - Zhivaya Arktika 13, pp. 101 - 105.

2000
"Living in Chum: Social Relations and Personal Behavioral Strategies among Komi Reindeer Herders". Pro Ethnologia. Publications of the Estonian National Museum 10, pp. 49 - 81.

1999
Kolva Volost and the Kolva Ethnographic Group as an example of transition from Settled to Nomadic Way of Life. Pro Ethnologia. Publications of the Estonian National Museum 8, pp. 19-34