N Mamontova
Biographic Data
| ID | 39254 |
|---|---|
| NAME | N Mamontova |
| GIVEN NAMES | N |
| FAMILY NAME | Mamontova |
| SIGNATURE | MAMONTOVA N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0647-1770 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Lost in Other-than-Human Worlds
This paper explores how disorientation and displacement in the shamanic topography of the Evenki lead to the establishment of novel relationships between humans and nonhuman beings. Examining human experiences of disorientation demonstrates how these spatial disruptions can convey geographical and sociocultural information about nonhuman ontologies and topographies. Ethnographic research with the Evenki in Siberia reveals that disorientation, alt…
Governing the unstable
This paper explores the role of polar meteorological stations in Soviet colonial ambitions during the Arctic geopolitical competition of the 1920s and 1930s, examining their enduring legacies in contemporary Russian Arctic policy. Amidst growing geopolitical interest in the Arctic, these stations became essential tools for asserting territorial sovereignty, collecting data crucial to the development of the Northern Sea Route, and consolidating So…
Soviet and Russian Regimes of Spatial Inscription
This article discusses Indigenous Evenki place names (hydronyms) on official topographic maps and handwritten sketches in a broader context of Soviet and Russian regimes of spatial inscription and toponymic policies and their legacies. The early Soviet policy of korenizatsia (indigenization) facilitated the incorporation of Indigenous place names into official nomenclature. As a result, a large number of Indigenous toponyms appeared on official m…
The Nuclear Anthropocene of the Soviet north
Process Toponymy’
This paper discusses the aim and the process of designing a community-engaged open-access GIS toponymic platform, based on Indigenous Evenki place names. Most projects on Indigenous toponymy available online are either oriented towards professional use among scholars or serve as enclosed repositories of Indigenous knowledge. Toponymic atlases remain the most common form of documenting and representing Indigenous place naming systems. Yet, tempora…
The multiperspectival nature of place names
The article examines the process of production and change of place names based on data collected in 2017 among the Okhotsk Ewenki, the easternmost Indigenous community in Siberia, Russia. Through ethnographic and semiotic analysis, we show that Ewenki place names are not simply reproduced, but rather generated and transformed through empathic contact and engagement within a semiotic circle of shared knowledge and praxis among humans and other bei…
The ice has gone”
This paper examines vernacular weather observations amongst rural people on Sakhalin, Russia’s largest island on the Pacific Coast, and their relationship to the ice. It is based on a weather diary (2000–2016) of one of the local inhabitants and fieldwork that the author conducted in the settlement of Trambaus in 2016. The diary as a community-based weather monitoring allows us to examine how people understand, perceive and deal with the weather …
Dynamic assemblages of the Anthropocene
?
“You Should Have Come in the Last Century”
А н т р
Ethnophysiography and place and space studies among indigenous peoples
ЭТНОФИЗИОГРАФИЯ И ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ МЕСТА
‘The track is never the same’
This paper analyses landscape terminology in Ewenki, one of the Tungusic languages spoken by indigenous hunters and reindeer herders in Siberia, using examples of three key conceptual categories: ‘
Donatas Brandišauskas, Leaving Footprints in the Taiga. Luck, Spirits and Ambivalence among the Siberian Orochen Reindeer Herders and Hunters
From “Clan” to Speech Community
This article deals with the relationships between identity, language, and “clan organization” among Ilimpii Evenki, and how these relationships formed and changed over the course of the twentieth century under the influence of Soviet nationalities policy, administrative reform, and local discursive practices. It is based on the author’s field materials collected in the period 2007 to 2012 in the Evenki Municipal District (Evenkia) of Krasnoiarski…
Language as mechanism of systemic foundation
This article explores S. M. Shirokogoroff’s critical approach to the study of language as a part of culture and a means of scientific classifications of mankind into a certain number of linguistic categories. The purpose of this article is to highlight a peculiar but rather underestimated contribution of Shirokogoroff to sociolinguistics, as his ideas were often stranded in critical relation to much that was dominant in social and linguistic thou…
What Language Do Real Evenki Speak
This article examines discussions on language maintenance among the indigenous inhabitants of the Evenki municipal district of Krasnoiarsk krai, specifically exploring the model of a nomadic preschool as a means of Evenki revitalization. Relying on field materials, the author aims to clarify why Evenki leaders have chosen this model over others. She concludes that the choice may be explained by primordialist understanding of language and ethnicit…
Hybrid Identities and Indigenous Language Sustainability
This article discusses hybrid identities and language contact of the Indigenous peoples of Southern Sakhalin, Russia's biggest island located in the Far East. It argues that mobility, advanced techniques of navigation, and a wide range of contacts with the neighbouring populations has facilitated multilingualism on Sakhalin. The international spirit and language super-diversity that were preserved until the beginning of the 20th century were sign…
Governing the unstable
This paper explores the role of polar meteorological stations in Soviet colonial ambitions during the Arctic geopolitical competition of the 1920s and 1930s, examining their enduring legacies in contemporary Russian Arctic policy. Amidst growing geopolitical interest in the Arctic, these stations became essential tools for asserting territorial sovereignty, collecting data crucial to the development of the Northern Sea Route, and consolidating So…
The multiperspectival nature of place names
The article examines the process of production and change of place names based on data collected in 2017 among the Okhotsk Ewenki, the easternmost Indigenous community in Siberia, Russia. Through ethnographic and semiotic analysis, we show that Ewenki place names are not simply reproduced, but rather generated and transformed through empathic contact and engagement within a semiotic circle of shared knowledge and praxis among humans and other bei…
Language as mechanism of systemic foundation
This article explores S. M. Shirokogoroff’s critical approach to the study of language as a part of culture and a means of scientific classifications of mankind into a certain number of linguistic categories. The purpose of this article is to highlight a peculiar but rather underestimated contribution of Shirokogoroff to sociolinguistics, as his ideas were often stranded in critical relation to much that was dominant in social and linguistic thou…
The Nuclear Anthropocene of the Soviet north
From “Clan” to Speech Community
This article deals with the relationships between identity, language, and “clan organization” among Ilimpii Evenki, and how these relationships formed and changed over the course of the twentieth century under the influence of Soviet nationalities policy, administrative reform, and local discursive practices. It is based on the author’s field materials collected in the period 2007 to 2012 in the Evenki Municipal District (Evenkia) of Krasnoiarski…
What Language Do Real Evenki Speak
This article examines discussions on language maintenance among the indigenous inhabitants of the Evenki municipal district of Krasnoiarsk krai, specifically exploring the model of a nomadic preschool as a means of Evenki revitalization. Relying on field materials, the author aims to clarify why Evenki leaders have chosen this model over others. She concludes that the choice may be explained by primordialist understanding of language and ethnicit…
Hybrid Identities and Indigenous Language Sustainability
This article discusses hybrid identities and language contact of the Indigenous peoples of Southern Sakhalin, Russia's biggest island located in the Far East. It argues that mobility, advanced techniques of navigation, and a wide range of contacts with the neighbouring populations has facilitated multilingualism on Sakhalin. The international spirit and language super-diversity that were preserved until the beginning of the 20th century were sign…
Hybrid Identities and Indigenous Language Sustainability
This article discusses hybrid identities and language contact of the Indigenous peoples of Southern Sakhalin, Russia's biggest island located in the Far East. It argues that mobility, advanced techniques of navigation, and a wide range of contacts with the neighbouring populations has facilitated multilingualism on Sakhalin. The international spirit and language super-diversity that were preserved until the beginning of the 20th century were sign…
What Language Do Real Evenki Speak
This article examines discussions on language maintenance among the indigenous inhabitants of the Evenki municipal district of Krasnoiarsk krai, specifically exploring the model of a nomadic preschool as a means of Evenki revitalization. Relying on field materials, the author aims to clarify why Evenki leaders have chosen this model over others. She concludes that the choice may be explained by primordialist understanding of language and ethnicit…
From “Clan” to Speech Community
This article deals with the relationships between identity, language, and “clan organization” among Ilimpii Evenki, and how these relationships formed and changed over the course of the twentieth century under the influence of Soviet nationalities policy, administrative reform, and local discursive practices. It is based on the author’s field materials collected in the period 2007 to 2012 in the Evenki Municipal District (Evenkia) of Krasnoiarski…
Language as mechanism of systemic foundation
This article explores S. M. Shirokogoroff’s critical approach to the study of language as a part of culture and a means of scientific classifications of mankind into a certain number of linguistic categories. The purpose of this article is to highlight a peculiar but rather underestimated contribution of Shirokogoroff to sociolinguistics, as his ideas were often stranded in critical relation to much that was dominant in social and linguistic thou…
Donatas Brandišauskas, Leaving Footprints in the Taiga. Luck, Spirits and Ambivalence among the Siberian Orochen Reindeer Herders and Hunters
‘The track is never the same’
This paper analyses landscape terminology in Ewenki, one of the Tungusic languages spoken by indigenous hunters and reindeer herders in Siberia, using examples of three key conceptual categories: ‘
“You Should Have Come in the Last Century”
А н т р
Ethnophysiography and place and space studies among indigenous peoples
ЭТНОФИЗИОГРАФИЯ И ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ МЕСТА
Dynamic assemblages of the Anthropocene
?
The ice has gone”
This paper examines vernacular weather observations amongst rural people on Sakhalin, Russia’s largest island on the Pacific Coast, and their relationship to the ice. It is based on a weather diary (2000–2016) of one of the local inhabitants and fieldwork that the author conducted in the settlement of Trambaus in 2016. The diary as a community-based weather monitoring allows us to examine how people understand, perceive and deal with the weather …
Process Toponymy’
This paper discusses the aim and the process of designing a community-engaged open-access GIS toponymic platform, based on Indigenous Evenki place names. Most projects on Indigenous toponymy available online are either oriented towards professional use among scholars or serve as enclosed repositories of Indigenous knowledge. Toponymic atlases remain the most common form of documenting and representing Indigenous place naming systems. Yet, tempora…
The multiperspectival nature of place names
The article examines the process of production and change of place names based on data collected in 2017 among the Okhotsk Ewenki, the easternmost Indigenous community in Siberia, Russia. Through ethnographic and semiotic analysis, we show that Ewenki place names are not simply reproduced, but rather generated and transformed through empathic contact and engagement within a semiotic circle of shared knowledge and praxis among humans and other bei…
The Nuclear Anthropocene of the Soviet north
Soviet and Russian Regimes of Spatial Inscription
This article discusses Indigenous Evenki place names (hydronyms) on official topographic maps and handwritten sketches in a broader context of Soviet and Russian regimes of spatial inscription and toponymic policies and their legacies. The early Soviet policy of korenizatsia (indigenization) facilitated the incorporation of Indigenous place names into official nomenclature. As a result, a large number of Indigenous toponyms appeared on official m…
Governing the unstable
This paper explores the role of polar meteorological stations in Soviet colonial ambitions during the Arctic geopolitical competition of the 1920s and 1930s, examining their enduring legacies in contemporary Russian Arctic policy. Amidst growing geopolitical interest in the Arctic, these stations became essential tools for asserting territorial sovereignty, collecting data crucial to the development of the Northern Sea Route, and consolidating So…
Lost in Other-than-Human Worlds
This paper explores how disorientation and displacement in the shamanic topography of the Evenki lead to the establishment of novel relationships between humans and nonhuman beings. Examining human experiences of disorientation demonstrates how these spatial disruptions can convey geographical and sociocultural information about nonhuman ontologies and topographies. Ethnographic research with the Evenki in Siberia reveals that disorientation, alt…
Indigenous (11 works) · Geography (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (8 works) · Linguistics (8 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · History (7 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (5 works)