Dmitry Arzyutov
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 777772 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Dmitry Arzyutov |
| NOMBRES | Dmitry |
| APELLIDO | Arzyutov |
| FIRMA | ARZYUTOV D |
| AFILIACIONES | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3782-9296 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Spinning the Past Forward
The article examines the history of phonographic recordings from the Jesup North Pacific Expedition (1897–1902), a venture that shaped the methods of Siberian and Arctic anthropology for decades. The authors—a historical anthropologist, a curator, and an Indigenous Sakha scholar—trace how audio recordings made during the expedition have moved through time and been reinterpreted as technologies and ways of knowing have evolved. They focus on the c…
Toward De‐Centering Siberian Museum Anthropology
This special issue invites anthropologists, museum curators, scholars in Indigenous studies, Indigenous heritage specialists, and historians of knowledge to reimagine the global geography of Siberian museum collections. These collections have often been overshadowed by the perceived dominance of Russian museum holdings—particularly those housed in major institutions in Saint Petersburg, such as the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethno…
The making of the Homo Polaris
This paper examines the history of the Soviet human acclimatization project in the North and Siberia, which spanned from medical experiments in Stalin's forced labor camps to the subsequent wave of industrialization in the region. The author argues that human acclimatization in the North was a settler colonial science project aimed at facilitating Russian administrators and engineers in asserting control over the territory and its resources, whil…
Proxies and partial connections in an anthropologist's archive
This article examines the role of primary ethnographic materials – of field notes, letters and photographs – and even of the shelves and bookcases – in building accounts of the human condition. We trace the lives of incomplete and not-yet-found manuscripts, which have been treated as representative of whole archives, as well as closely held convictions and ideas in the history of anthropology. In so doing, we employ the notion of a ‘proxy’, or a …
A critical paradigm for the histories of anthropology
The article presents a discussion focused on Regna Darnell's concepts of critical paradigm and transportable knowledge in relation to contemporary studies in history of anthropology, put forward in her essay based on the text written for the keynote address at EASA's History of Anthropology Network and reproduced in BEROSE International Encyclopaedia of the Histories of Anthropology. Assessing the changing disciplinary scene of humanities and soc…
Introduction to Entangled Indigenous Historicities from the Eurasian North
The present collection examines the ways Indigenous peoples across the Eurasian North—Sámi, Nenets, Khanty, and Tyva—deal with the past and how their conceptualizations of the past are entangled with dominant ideologies in Russia and Finland, human-environment relations, and the colonial experiences they went through. The authors operate with the notion of historicity, which is understood in François Hartog’s terms as a 'temporal experience'. In …
Let's Sharpen Our Optic Nerves
Pey-Yi Chu. The Life of Permafrost
The discipline of history expands its horizon both in time and depth. The recent notion of the Anthropocene has not only contributed to philosophical debates about humans’ relationship to the natural world but has also stimulated the imaginations of social and human science scholars. “Objects” that had long been considered solely as part of “natural history” have gradually been redefined by historians and anthropologists as zones of all-encompass…
Reindeer Imagery in the Making at Ust’-Polui in Arctic Siberia
The history of reindeer domestication is a critical topic in the study of human-animal relationships across Northern Eurasia. The Iamal-Nenets region of Arctic Siberia, now a global centre of reindeer pastoralism, has been the subject of much recent research on reindeer domestication. However, tracking the beginnings of reindeer domestication in this region and elsewhere in Eurasia has proved challenging. Archaeological imagery is an under-utiliz…
Local Knowledge and "Other Anthropologies" [Lokal'noe znanie i "drugie antropologii]
The article examines the problems of ethnographic description and representation of the culture of Others and analyzes the ontological limitations inherent in anthropology, which call into question the very possibility of obtaining objective knowledge about the studied cultures. The concept of "other anthropologies" is proposed, which implies the recognition of heuristically significant alternatives to the Eurocentric perspective in the descripti…
Whole Parts
What does an anthropologist's archive look like? Where is it located? And is the anthropology of archives important for the understanding of anthropological thinking today? Here we answer these questions by analysing the various life histories of the archival fragments of one of the most puzzling and influential anthropologists in the history of Russian and Soviet anthropology: Sergei Mikhailovich Shirokogoroff (1887-1939). Shirokogoroff is credi…
Nothing goes to waste
In the last few decades, the literature on waste has soared and taken two main directions. Considering the assumption that waste is a natural category, which we need to ‘dispose of’, the scholarship on waste management and its sustainability offers mainly problem-solving propositions (e.g., the 3Rs proposal—re-cycling, re-using, and reducing—or ‘circular economy’). The social scientific waste studies literature takes a more critical stance from i…
Domestication as Enskilment
Life Histories of Etnos Theory in Russia and Beyond
Life Histories of Etnos Theory in Russia and Beyond makes a powerful argument for reconsidering the importance of etnos in our understanding of ethnicity and national identity across Eurasia. The collection brings to life a rich archive of previously unpublished letters, fieldnotes, and photographic collections of the theory’s early proponents.
Etnos Thinking in the Long Twentieth Century
This chapter contextualizes the first appearance of ‘etnos’ as a principal object of research of ethnography as a discipline. It explores etnos from the end of the nineteenth century, right through to the present day. Here, etnos is examined in relation to its connections to both the development of Biosocial Science in Russia and to Soviet Marxism, and alongside wider concepts
Order out of Chaos
This chapter analyses the political pamphlets of Sergei Shirokogoroff, published and distributed during the turbulent time of the Russian Civil War when Shirokogoroff was an officer of the White-led Far Eastern Republic. The portrait of the ethnographer which emerges from these recently discovered writings sits at odds with all other biographies of his life. His political writings were in a sense concealed by the scholar himself since many did no…
Grounding Etnos Theory
This is a highly contextualized essay on the history of etnos theory from roughly the 18th century to the 21st century. The introduction demonstrates how various concepts of identity arose from the concrete experiences that specific ethnographers had with the people who hosted them, and that these sometimes-competing accounts of etnos, minzu, and ethnie were underwritten by concrete experiences. Historically, the introduction would touch on the f…
Off-the-Grid Life of Arctic Nomads
This article deals with the ethnographic analysis of the history and social life of electricity among Nenets in the Yamal Peninsula. Based on historical documents and field data the author reconstructs a history of the electrification of the northern part of the peninsula. This work also includes the reflections on social and cultural meanings of electricity among Nenets in and out the tundra. Through these historical and current dynamics, the au…
Environmental encounters
This article investigates how in the Soviet Arctic researchers and indigenous communities searched and understood the mammoth before and during the Cold War. Based on a vast number of published and unpublished sources as well as interviews with scholars and reindeer herders, this article demonstrates that the mammoth, as a paleontological find fusing together features of extinct and extant species, plays an in-between role among various environme…
The Etnos Archipelago
The concept of etnos-one of the more controversial anthropological concepts of the Cold War period-is contextualized by looking at its "life history" through the biography of one of its proponents. Sergei Mikhailovich Shirokogoroff was a Russian/Chinese anthropologist whose career transected Eurasia from Paris to Beijing via Saint Petersburg and the Siberian borderlands of the Russian Empire. His transnational biography and active correspondence …
Voices of the Land, Samizdat, and Visionary Politics
This article analyses the social life of narratives within the contemporary Ak-Jang [Ak-Çaŋ] movement of the Altai people of Southern Siberia, based on periodic fieldwork from 2009-2012, with recent updates using the Internet and short trips. The author argues that the Ak-Jang movement, while it has roots and commonalities in the Burkhanist “new religion” of the turn of the twentieth century, also has divergences. While both were politically oppo…
Writing the History of the Northern “Field”
W hat do we know about the fieldwork of the ethnographers/ anthropologists of the North? How did they organize their research and what ideas have they left behind in their now archived field notes? Historians of anthropology along with anthropologists attempt to find answers to these questions through the analysis of field notes, diaries, letters, and reports, as well as published and unpublished works from the fieldworkers of the past. Despite t…
The Concept of the "Field" in Early Soviet Ethnography
The conceptualization of the "field" in early Soviet ethnography had its own dynamics and elaborations within the discursive arenas of the Leningrad ethnographic school. Beginning with the prehistory of the idea of the field among the Enlightenment naturalists and travelers, we turn toward a description of long-term expeditions of the first generation of Soviet ethnographers of the North. Comparing field diaries, photographs, questionnaires, lect…
Shatra аnd Jurt
Supported by the Russian Science Foundation project (No. 14-18-02785) and by the Arctic Domus project (ERC, AdG295458
Samoyedic Diary
"The Construction of Soviet Ethnography and "The Peoples of Siberia
The multi-generation book project "The Peoples of Siberia" enabled a group of Leningrad-based scholars to reshape their museum into a Soviet ethnographic community. This article analyses the face-to-face performances, the legalistic stenographic documentation, the collective crafting of a single authoritative style, and a unique temporal frame as an important background to understand a hallmark volume in Siberian studies. The authors argue that t…
Domestication as Enskilment
Voices of the Land, Samizdat, and Visionary Politics
This article analyses the social life of narratives within the contemporary Ak-Jang [Ak-Çaŋ] movement of the Altai people of Southern Siberia, based on periodic fieldwork from 2009-2012, with recent updates using the Internet and short trips. The author argues that the Ak-Jang movement, while it has roots and commonalities in the Burkhanist “new religion” of the turn of the twentieth century, also has divergences. While both were politically oppo…
The Concept of the "Field" in Early Soviet Ethnography
The conceptualization of the "field" in early Soviet ethnography had its own dynamics and elaborations within the discursive arenas of the Leningrad ethnographic school. Beginning with the prehistory of the idea of the field among the Enlightenment naturalists and travelers, we turn toward a description of long-term expeditions of the first generation of Soviet ethnographers of the North. Comparing field diaries, photographs, questionnaires, lect…
Nothing goes to waste
In the last few decades, the literature on waste has soared and taken two main directions. Considering the assumption that waste is a natural category, which we need to ‘dispose of’, the scholarship on waste management and its sustainability offers mainly problem-solving propositions (e.g., the 3Rs proposal—re-cycling, re-using, and reducing—or ‘circular economy’). The social scientific waste studies literature takes a more critical stance from i…
Environmental encounters
This article investigates how in the Soviet Arctic researchers and indigenous communities searched and understood the mammoth before and during the Cold War. Based on a vast number of published and unpublished sources as well as interviews with scholars and reindeer herders, this article demonstrates that the mammoth, as a paleontological find fusing together features of extinct and extant species, plays an in-between role among various environme…
The Etnos Archipelago
The concept of etnos-one of the more controversial anthropological concepts of the Cold War period-is contextualized by looking at its "life history" through the biography of one of its proponents. Sergei Mikhailovich Shirokogoroff was a Russian/Chinese anthropologist whose career transected Eurasia from Paris to Beijing via Saint Petersburg and the Siberian borderlands of the Russian Empire. His transnational biography and active correspondence …
Samoyedic Diary
Proxies and partial connections in an anthropologist's archive
This article examines the role of primary ethnographic materials – of field notes, letters and photographs – and even of the shelves and bookcases – in building accounts of the human condition. We trace the lives of incomplete and not-yet-found manuscripts, which have been treated as representative of whole archives, as well as closely held convictions and ideas in the history of anthropology. In so doing, we employ the notion of a ‘proxy’, or a …
Reindeer Imagery in the Making at Ust’-Polui in Arctic Siberia
The history of reindeer domestication is a critical topic in the study of human-animal relationships across Northern Eurasia. The Iamal-Nenets region of Arctic Siberia, now a global centre of reindeer pastoralism, has been the subject of much recent research on reindeer domestication. However, tracking the beginnings of reindeer domestication in this region and elsewhere in Eurasia has proved challenging. Archaeological imagery is an under-utiliz…
« Épîtres » altaïennes
Les pratiques communicationnelles sont un aspect important des Nouveaux mouvements religieux. Cet article porte sur des « épîtres », des textes « envoyés d’en haut », et leur circulation dans le mouvement religieux moderne Ak-jaŋ dans la république d’Altaï, ainsi que leur interprétation anthropologique. Les épîtres sont une source pour comprendre la « philosophie » indigène qui est considérée par les participants au mouvement comme un savoir alte…
Shatra аnd Jurt
Supported by the Russian Science Foundation project (No. 14-18-02785) and by the Arctic Domus project (ERC, AdG295458
Samoyedic Diary
"The Construction of Soviet Ethnography and "The Peoples of Siberia
The multi-generation book project "The Peoples of Siberia" enabled a group of Leningrad-based scholars to reshape their museum into a Soviet ethnographic community. This article analyses the face-to-face performances, the legalistic stenographic documentation, the collective crafting of a single authoritative style, and a unique temporal frame as an important background to understand a hallmark volume in Siberian studies. The authors argue that t…
Writing the History of the Northern “Field”
W hat do we know about the fieldwork of the ethnographers/ anthropologists of the North? How did they organize their research and what ideas have they left behind in their now archived field notes? Historians of anthropology along with anthropologists attempt to find answers to these questions through the analysis of field notes, diaries, letters, and reports, as well as published and unpublished works from the fieldworkers of the past. Despite t…
The Concept of the "Field" in Early Soviet Ethnography
The conceptualization of the "field" in early Soviet ethnography had its own dynamics and elaborations within the discursive arenas of the Leningrad ethnographic school. Beginning with the prehistory of the idea of the field among the Enlightenment naturalists and travelers, we turn toward a description of long-term expeditions of the first generation of Soviet ethnographers of the North. Comparing field diaries, photographs, questionnaires, lect…
Voices of the Land, Samizdat, and Visionary Politics
This article analyses the social life of narratives within the contemporary Ak-Jang [Ak-Çaŋ] movement of the Altai people of Southern Siberia, based on periodic fieldwork from 2009-2012, with recent updates using the Internet and short trips. The author argues that the Ak-Jang movement, while it has roots and commonalities in the Burkhanist “new religion” of the turn of the twentieth century, also has divergences. While both were politically oppo…
Life Histories of Etnos Theory in Russia and Beyond
Life Histories of Etnos Theory in Russia and Beyond makes a powerful argument for reconsidering the importance of etnos in our understanding of ethnicity and national identity across Eurasia. The collection brings to life a rich archive of previously unpublished letters, fieldnotes, and photographic collections of the theory’s early proponents.
Etnos Thinking in the Long Twentieth Century
This chapter contextualizes the first appearance of ‘etnos’ as a principal object of research of ethnography as a discipline. It explores etnos from the end of the nineteenth century, right through to the present day. Here, etnos is examined in relation to its connections to both the development of Biosocial Science in Russia and to Soviet Marxism, and alongside wider concepts
Order out of Chaos
This chapter analyses the political pamphlets of Sergei Shirokogoroff, published and distributed during the turbulent time of the Russian Civil War when Shirokogoroff was an officer of the White-led Far Eastern Republic. The portrait of the ethnographer which emerges from these recently discovered writings sits at odds with all other biographies of his life. His political writings were in a sense concealed by the scholar himself since many did no…
Grounding Etnos Theory
This is a highly contextualized essay on the history of etnos theory from roughly the 18th century to the 21st century. The introduction demonstrates how various concepts of identity arose from the concrete experiences that specific ethnographers had with the people who hosted them, and that these sometimes-competing accounts of etnos, minzu, and ethnie were underwritten by concrete experiences. Historically, the introduction would touch on the f…
Off-the-Grid Life of Arctic Nomads
This article deals with the ethnographic analysis of the history and social life of electricity among Nenets in the Yamal Peninsula. Based on historical documents and field data the author reconstructs a history of the electrification of the northern part of the peninsula. This work also includes the reflections on social and cultural meanings of electricity among Nenets in and out the tundra. Through these historical and current dynamics, the au…
Environmental encounters
This article investigates how in the Soviet Arctic researchers and indigenous communities searched and understood the mammoth before and during the Cold War. Based on a vast number of published and unpublished sources as well as interviews with scholars and reindeer herders, this article demonstrates that the mammoth, as a paleontological find fusing together features of extinct and extant species, plays an in-between role among various environme…
The Etnos Archipelago
The concept of etnos-one of the more controversial anthropological concepts of the Cold War period-is contextualized by looking at its "life history" through the biography of one of its proponents. Sergei Mikhailovich Shirokogoroff was a Russian/Chinese anthropologist whose career transected Eurasia from Paris to Beijing via Saint Petersburg and the Siberian borderlands of the Russian Empire. His transnational biography and active correspondence …
Nothing goes to waste
In the last few decades, the literature on waste has soared and taken two main directions. Considering the assumption that waste is a natural category, which we need to ‘dispose of’, the scholarship on waste management and its sustainability offers mainly problem-solving propositions (e.g., the 3Rs proposal—re-cycling, re-using, and reducing—or ‘circular economy’). The social scientific waste studies literature takes a more critical stance from i…
Domestication as Enskilment
Reindeer Imagery in the Making at Ust’-Polui in Arctic Siberia
The history of reindeer domestication is a critical topic in the study of human-animal relationships across Northern Eurasia. The Iamal-Nenets region of Arctic Siberia, now a global centre of reindeer pastoralism, has been the subject of much recent research on reindeer domestication. However, tracking the beginnings of reindeer domestication in this region and elsewhere in Eurasia has proved challenging. Archaeological imagery is an under-utiliz…
Local Knowledge and "Other Anthropologies" [Lokal'noe znanie i "drugie antropologii]
The article examines the problems of ethnographic description and representation of the culture of Others and analyzes the ontological limitations inherent in anthropology, which call into question the very possibility of obtaining objective knowledge about the studied cultures. The concept of "other anthropologies" is proposed, which implies the recognition of heuristically significant alternatives to the Eurocentric perspective in the descripti…
Whole Parts
What does an anthropologist's archive look like? Where is it located? And is the anthropology of archives important for the understanding of anthropological thinking today? Here we answer these questions by analysing the various life histories of the archival fragments of one of the most puzzling and influential anthropologists in the history of Russian and Soviet anthropology: Sergei Mikhailovich Shirokogoroff (1887-1939). Shirokogoroff is credi…
Let's Sharpen Our Optic Nerves
Pey-Yi Chu. The Life of Permafrost
The discipline of history expands its horizon both in time and depth. The recent notion of the Anthropocene has not only contributed to philosophical debates about humans’ relationship to the natural world but has also stimulated the imaginations of social and human science scholars. “Objects” that had long been considered solely as part of “natural history” have gradually been redefined by historians and anthropologists as zones of all-encompass…
A critical paradigm for the histories of anthropology
The article presents a discussion focused on Regna Darnell's concepts of critical paradigm and transportable knowledge in relation to contemporary studies in history of anthropology, put forward in her essay based on the text written for the keynote address at EASA's History of Anthropology Network and reproduced in BEROSE International Encyclopaedia of the Histories of Anthropology. Assessing the changing disciplinary scene of humanities and soc…
Introduction to Entangled Indigenous Historicities from the Eurasian North
The present collection examines the ways Indigenous peoples across the Eurasian North—Sámi, Nenets, Khanty, and Tyva—deal with the past and how their conceptualizations of the past are entangled with dominant ideologies in Russia and Finland, human-environment relations, and the colonial experiences they went through. The authors operate with the notion of historicity, which is understood in François Hartog’s terms as a 'temporal experience'. In …
The making of the Homo Polaris
This paper examines the history of the Soviet human acclimatization project in the North and Siberia, which spanned from medical experiments in Stalin's forced labor camps to the subsequent wave of industrialization in the region. The author argues that human acclimatization in the North was a settler colonial science project aimed at facilitating Russian administrators and engineers in asserting control over the territory and its resources, whil…
Proxies and partial connections in an anthropologist's archive
This article examines the role of primary ethnographic materials – of field notes, letters and photographs – and even of the shelves and bookcases – in building accounts of the human condition. We trace the lives of incomplete and not-yet-found manuscripts, which have been treated as representative of whole archives, as well as closely held convictions and ideas in the history of anthropology. In so doing, we employ the notion of a ‘proxy’, or a …
Sociology (17 obras) · Anthropology (12 obras) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (12 obras) · History (11 obras) · Political science (10 obras) · Archaeology (9 obras) · Ethnography (9 obras) · Arctic (8 obras) · History (8 obras) · Law (8 obras)