Publications
Book
2002
People of the Tundra: Northern Siberians in the Post-Communist Transition. Waveland Press: Prospect Heights, Illinois.
Articles
2002
“Land Use and Economic Change among the Dolgan and the Nganasan.” 207-224 in Erich Kasten (ed.) People and the Land: Pathways to Reform in Post Soviet Siberia. Dietrich Reimer Verlag: Berlin.
"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.
“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.
“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.
1996
“Obsuzhdenie 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."] Etnograficheskoe Obozrenie 2:134-135.
“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.
Forthcoming
“The Raw and the Cooked in Arctic Siberia: Seasonality, Gender and Diet among the Dolgan and Nganasan Hunter Gatherers.” Nutritional Anthropology.
In prep.
“Food Sharing at Meals among Dolgan and Nganasan Hunter-Gatherers of Arctic Siberia.”
Co-Authored Articles
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.
Recent Conference Papers
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.
“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.
“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.
Co-Authored Conference Paper
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.