Andrei A Znamenski
Biographic Data
| ID | 458451 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrei A Znamenski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrei A |
| FAMILY NAME | Znamenski |
| SIGNATURE | ZNAMENSKI A A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Memphis |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6065-4127 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Todd H. Weir. Red Secularism
Socialism As a Secular Creed
Andrei Znamenski argues that socialism arose out of activities of secularized apocalyptic sects, the Enlightenment tradition, and dislocations produced by the Industrial Revolution. He examines how, by the 1850s, Marx and Engels made the socialist creed “scientific” by linking it to “history laws” and inventing the proletariat—the “chosen people” that were to redeem the world from oppression. Focusing on the fractions between social democracy and…
Mircea Eliade
В статье делается попытка ответить на вопрос о том, что побудило известного религиоведа Мирча Элиаде (1907-1986), который никогда не считал себя экспертом по шаманизму и «племенным» народам, написать свой классический труд «Шаманизм: архаические техники экстаза» (1951). Предполагается, что для Элиаде с его мышлением, сильно пронизанным философией традиционализма, было логически закономерным шагом заняться изучением шаманизма. Традиционализм являл…
The “White Faith” Movement in the Mountain Altai
Epidemics, Prophesy, and Self-Christianization
Historians and anthropologists have extensively researched spiritual encounters between America’s indigenous people and Christian missionaries. One group of scholars, who more often than not are linked to Native American cultural activism, took a strong critical approach and came to view missionary activities as the tool of colonialism. Another group of scholars, who are mostly people with a theological background, on the contrary, treat missiona…
Ian W. Campbell. Knowledge and the Ends of Empire
Ian W. Campbell’s Knowledge and the Ends of Empire: Kazak Intermediaries and Russian Rule on the Steppe, 1731–1917 starts with a description of an 1870 episode when local authorities in southern Siberia requested the Russian War Ministry provide funds to a Cossack picket located somewhere in the southern Altai. The picket was expected to guard an international border with China. The ministry replied that it was not sure whether this post was actu…
Joseph Grigulevich
This paper explores the life of Joseph Grigulevich (1913–1988), a famous early Soviet illegal intelligence operative, who conducted various “special tasks” on behalf of Stalin’s foreign espionage network. These included the murder of dissident Spanish communist Andreas Nin (1938), a participation in the assassination of Leon Trotsky (1940), posing as a Costa Rican ambassador (1949–1952), and an abortive project to assassinate Joseph Bros Tito (19…
The Myth of the Masters Revived
Alaska in modern Russian geopolitical rhetoric
Power for the Powerless
Cet article discute et compare deux mouvements millénaristes qui se sont étendus en Altaï (le bourkhanisme ou « Foi blanche », 1904) et en Mongolie occidentale (fief de Ja-Lama, 1911) en réponse aux pénétrations économiques et culturelles des Russes (Altaï) et des Chinois (Mongolie) dans ces sociétés nomades. Les études précédentes ont mis l’accent sur la « Foi blanche » altaïenne, insistant sur son caractère exceptionnel et minimisant ses rappor…
The Beauty of the Primitive
For the past forty years shamanism has drawn increasing attention among the general public and academics. So far no one has tried to understand why and how Western intellectual and popular culture became so fascinated with the topic. Behind fictional and non-fictional works on shamanism, this book uncovers an exciting story that mirrors changing Western attitudes toward the primitive. It explores how shamanism, an obscure word introduced by the 1…
The Reindeer People
Book Review| April 01 2007 The Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia The Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia. By Piers Vitebsky. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. xv, 480 pp., illustrations, maps. $28.00 paper.) Andrei A. Znamenski Andrei A. Znamenski Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (2): 357–358. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2006-068 Cite Icon Cite …
Shamanism and Christianity
Preface Introduction Indigenous Landscapes Missionary Landscapes in Siberia and Alaska Russian Orthodoxy Becomes a Native Faith: Dena'ina Encounters with Orthodox Missionaries, 1844-1917 Unresponsive Natives: The Chukchi Dialogue with the Russian Mission, 1840s-1917 Dialogues about Spirit and Power: Altaian Natives and Russian Orthodox Mission, 1830-1917 Conclusion Glossary Bibliography Index
Shamanism and Christianity on the Russian Siberian Borderland Altaian Responses to Russian Orthodox Missionaries (1830–1917)
For those historians and anthropologists who study shamanism, Altai represents the ‘motherland’ of this institution. For their inspirations scholars who want to explore ‘classical’ cases of shamanism usually turn to this area, located in south-western Siberia, at the intersection of Russian, Mongolian and Chinese borders. At the same time, many of these scholars, who are concerned with a quest for ‘ideal’ and ‘traditionalist’ shamanism, ignore al…
Siberian History in Russian and Native Dimensions
A Household God in a Socialist World Lewis Henry Morgan and Russian/Soviet Anthropology
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Indeitsi Tlinkiti v Period Russkoi Ameriki, 1741-1867
Shamanism and Christianity on the Russian Siberian Borderland Altaian Responses to Russian Orthodox Missionaries (1830–1917)
For those historians and anthropologists who study shamanism, Altai represents the ‘motherland’ of this institution. For their inspirations scholars who want to explore ‘classical’ cases of shamanism usually turn to this area, located in south-western Siberia, at the intersection of Russian, Mongolian and Chinese borders. At the same time, many of these scholars, who are concerned with a quest for ‘ideal’ and ‘traditionalist’ shamanism, ignore al…
A Household God in a Socialist World Lewis Henry Morgan and Russian/Soviet Anthropology
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Siberian History in Russian and Native Dimensions
A Household God in a Socialist World Lewis Henry Morgan and Russian/Soviet Anthropology
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Indeitsi Tlinkiti v Period Russkoi Ameriki, 1741-1867
Shamanism and Christianity on the Russian Siberian Borderland Altaian Responses to Russian Orthodox Missionaries (1830–1917)
For those historians and anthropologists who study shamanism, Altai represents the ‘motherland’ of this institution. For their inspirations scholars who want to explore ‘classical’ cases of shamanism usually turn to this area, located in south-western Siberia, at the intersection of Russian, Mongolian and Chinese borders. At the same time, many of these scholars, who are concerned with a quest for ‘ideal’ and ‘traditionalist’ shamanism, ignore al…
Shamanism and Christianity
Preface Introduction Indigenous Landscapes Missionary Landscapes in Siberia and Alaska Russian Orthodoxy Becomes a Native Faith: Dena'ina Encounters with Orthodox Missionaries, 1844-1917 Unresponsive Natives: The Chukchi Dialogue with the Russian Mission, 1840s-1917 Dialogues about Spirit and Power: Altaian Natives and Russian Orthodox Mission, 1830-1917 Conclusion Glossary Bibliography Index
The Beauty of the Primitive
For the past forty years shamanism has drawn increasing attention among the general public and academics. So far no one has tried to understand why and how Western intellectual and popular culture became so fascinated with the topic. Behind fictional and non-fictional works on shamanism, this book uncovers an exciting story that mirrors changing Western attitudes toward the primitive. It explores how shamanism, an obscure word introduced by the 1…
The Reindeer People
Book Review| April 01 2007 The Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia The Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia. By Piers Vitebsky. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. xv, 480 pp., illustrations, maps. $28.00 paper.) Andrei A. Znamenski Andrei A. Znamenski Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (2): 357–358. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2006-068 Cite Icon Cite …
Power for the Powerless
Cet article discute et compare deux mouvements millénaristes qui se sont étendus en Altaï (le bourkhanisme ou « Foi blanche », 1904) et en Mongolie occidentale (fief de Ja-Lama, 1911) en réponse aux pénétrations économiques et culturelles des Russes (Altaï) et des Chinois (Mongolie) dans ces sociétés nomades. Les études précédentes ont mis l’accent sur la « Foi blanche » altaïenne, insistant sur son caractère exceptionnel et minimisant ses rappor…
Alaska in modern Russian geopolitical rhetoric
Joseph Grigulevich
This paper explores the life of Joseph Grigulevich (1913–1988), a famous early Soviet illegal intelligence operative, who conducted various “special tasks” on behalf of Stalin’s foreign espionage network. These included the murder of dissident Spanish communist Andreas Nin (1938), a participation in the assassination of Leon Trotsky (1940), posing as a Costa Rican ambassador (1949–1952), and an abortive project to assassinate Joseph Bros Tito (19…
The Myth of the Masters Revived
Ian W. Campbell. Knowledge and the Ends of Empire
Ian W. Campbell’s Knowledge and the Ends of Empire: Kazak Intermediaries and Russian Rule on the Steppe, 1731–1917 starts with a description of an 1870 episode when local authorities in southern Siberia requested the Russian War Ministry provide funds to a Cossack picket located somewhere in the southern Altai. The picket was expected to guard an international border with China. The ministry replied that it was not sure whether this post was actu…
The “White Faith” Movement in the Mountain Altai
Epidemics, Prophesy, and Self-Christianization
Historians and anthropologists have extensively researched spiritual encounters between America’s indigenous people and Christian missionaries. One group of scholars, who more often than not are linked to Native American cultural activism, took a strong critical approach and came to view missionary activities as the tool of colonialism. Another group of scholars, who are mostly people with a theological background, on the contrary, treat missiona…
Socialism As a Secular Creed
Andrei Znamenski argues that socialism arose out of activities of secularized apocalyptic sects, the Enlightenment tradition, and dislocations produced by the Industrial Revolution. He examines how, by the 1850s, Marx and Engels made the socialist creed “scientific” by linking it to “history laws” and inventing the proletariat—the “chosen people” that were to redeem the world from oppression. Focusing on the fractions between social democracy and…
Mircea Eliade
В статье делается попытка ответить на вопрос о том, что побудило известного религиоведа Мирча Элиаде (1907-1986), который никогда не считал себя экспертом по шаманизму и «племенным» народам, написать свой классический труд «Шаманизм: архаические техники экстаза» (1951). Предполагается, что для Элиаде с его мышлением, сильно пронизанным философией традиционализма, было логически закономерным шагом заняться изучением шаманизма. Традиционализм являл…
Todd H. Weir. Red Secularism
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