Laur Vallikivi
Biographic Data
| ID | 75270 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laur Vallikivi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laur |
| FAMILY NAME | Vallikivi |
| SIGNATURE | VALLIKIVI L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tartu |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3971-170X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Soome-ugri kogemus ja kohanemine. Saatesõna
Soome-ugri rahvaid 1 käsitlevat uurimistööd on vorminud uurijate huvid, praktilised võimalused, teadusdistsipliinide ja institutsioonide põhimõtted, ideoloogilised voolud ja poliitilised režiimid.Peamine tõmbejõud nii teadlaskonnas kui ka ühis konnas laiemalt on olnud hõimluse idee, mis algselt lähtus keelesugulusest, kuid laienes ajapikku kujutluseks ühisest päritolust ja kultuurilisest lähedusest.XIX sajandil keele suguluse teooriate ja rahvusl…
Vastuolulised sõjad ja kestev kolonisatsioon neenetsi tundras
This article examines how long-term colonial domination shapes attitudes toward war, violence, and the state among Nenets reindeer herders in the European tundra and the Polar Urals. Drawing on historical sources, contemporary media, open-source data on wartime casualties and mobilization, and long-term ethnographic fieldwork among private reindeer-herding families (2000–2017), I trace changes in relations between Nenets and lutsa – a term referr…
Arvo Valton – in memoriam: Séminaire à Badacsonytomaj, décembre 2024
Preface to the Special Issue: Living Animisms and Monotheisms in the Finno-Ugric World
This special issue addresses the religion of the Finno-Ugric peoples, with a specific focus on animist religiosity and its contemporary expression in Finno-Ugric societies.*This is a subject that has recently featured prominently in significant forums, and this collection of papers is particularly influenced by discussions at two major conferences: the Congress of the European Association for the Study of Religions (EASR) in Cork in June 2022, an…
Buying a God in Paris: Cultural Hybridity in the Thinking of Yuri Vella, Forest Nenets Intellectual
This paper analyses highly creative and hybrid practices which tie the Indigenous Siberian, European Christian and Soviet worlds in unexpected ways. Reflecting on the Forest Nenets reindeer herder, poet and intellectual Yuri Vella’s understanding of the religious, the authors discuss an episode of turning an icon-like painting of Madonna with Child into a Nenets ‘god’. This took place in Paris half a year before Yuri’s death. First, we present hi…
Forum: The Material Turn and the Anthropology of Religion
Material religion" as a research program is a relatively new development in the study of religion in the social sciences and humanities. Though this approach has its own forerunners and predecessors, one can argue that it took shape in the wake of an epistemological critique of social and cultural anthropology which treated religion as embedded in the cognitive and psychological experiences of a human being. Accordingly, the material manifestatio…
“We Cannot Pray Without Kumyshka ”: Alcohol in Udmurt Ritual Life
We trace the history of the uses of the alcoholic drink known as kumyshka among the Udmurt. Our focus is on kumyshka ’s ritual uses both in public and domestic contexts in the second half of the 19th century, the early 20th century as well as the early 21st century. We suggest that kumyshka not only represents a site of resistance to the dominant religious regime, i.e. Russian Orthodoxy, but is also a tool for self-enhancement and identity making…
Continuity and Revitalisation in Sacrificial Rituals by the Eastern Udmurt. Part II. Collective Sacrificial Rituals by the Bashkortostan Udmurt: Revitalisation and Innovation
Continuity and Revitalisation in Sacrificial Rituals by the Eastern Udmurt. Part I. The Collective Sacrificial Rituals by the Bashkortostan Udmurt: Rooted in Tradition
This article focuses on a marginal Udmurt group living in Bashkortostan, which has retained, in a Muslim environment, its original Udmurt religious practice.In some places, in spite of decades of anti-religious Soviet policy, the Udmurt were able to pursue their traditional rituals, thus warranting full continuity of their practice.In other places, the tradition was discontinued for some longer or briefer periods.But everywhere there has been a r…
The Rebirth of a People: Reincarnation Cosmology among the Tundra Yukaghir of the Lower Kolyma, Northeast Siberia
We focus on Tundra Yukaghir reincarnation cosmology and its workings in the current ethnic revival by examining rebirth accounts from the Lower Kolyma. In Sovietized Siberia, the atheist state fought against everything that was “religious” and thus contributed to the wane of reincarnation ideology and related ritual practices. In addition, the state suppressed a distinct Yukaghir ethnicity it had partly constructed itself. In the 1990s, rebirth r…
Pentecostals and Charismatic Protestants in the Republic of Komi and Nenets Tundra
Between 2010 and 2012, an extended team of scholars studied contemporary Protestant groups in Russia. The project was labelled Center for the Study of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements in Russia 1 (CSPCMR) and was led by Aleksandr Panchenko from the European University in Saint Petersburg and Patrick Plattet from the
Adapting Christianity on the Siberian Edge during the Early Soviet Period
The focus of this article is on different adaptations of Christianity by the northern indigenous peoples of Russia in the early Soviet period.We shall examine the community of Yup'ik Eskimo maritime hunters who experimented with Christian ritual forms in order to overcome the crisis caused by the intrusion of the Soviets.Naukan Yup'ik developed a Christian-influenced ritualistic practice to fight back against growing pressure from the Soviets.We …
Conversion after socialism: Disruptions, modernisms and technologies of faith in the former Soviet Union
The large and sudden influx of missionaries into the former Soviet Union after seventy years of militant secularism has been controversial, and the widespread occurrence of conversion has led to anxiety about social and national disintegration. Although these concerns have been vigorously discussed in national arenas, social scientists have remained remarkably silent about the subject. This volume’s focus on conversion offers a novel approach to …
Continuity and Revitalisation in Sacrificial Rituals by the Eastern Udmurt. Part II. Collective Sacrificial Rituals by the Bashkortostan Udmurt: Revitalisation and Innovation
Continuity and Revitalisation in Sacrificial Rituals by the Eastern Udmurt. Part I. The Collective Sacrificial Rituals by the Bashkortostan Udmurt: Rooted in Tradition
This article focuses on a marginal Udmurt group living in Bashkortostan, which has retained, in a Muslim environment, its original Udmurt religious practice.In some places, in spite of decades of anti-religious Soviet policy, the Udmurt were able to pursue their traditional rituals, thus warranting full continuity of their practice.In other places, the tradition was discontinued for some longer or briefer periods.But everywhere there has been a r…
The Rebirth of a People: Reincarnation Cosmology among the Tundra Yukaghir of the Lower Kolyma, Northeast Siberia
We focus on Tundra Yukaghir reincarnation cosmology and its workings in the current ethnic revival by examining rebirth accounts from the Lower Kolyma. In Sovietized Siberia, the atheist state fought against everything that was “religious” and thus contributed to the wane of reincarnation ideology and related ritual practices. In addition, the state suppressed a distinct Yukaghir ethnicity it had partly constructed itself. In the 1990s, rebirth r…
Forum: The Material Turn and the Anthropology of Religion
Material religion" as a research program is a relatively new development in the study of religion in the social sciences and humanities. Though this approach has its own forerunners and predecessors, one can argue that it took shape in the wake of an epistemological critique of social and cultural anthropology which treated religion as embedded in the cognitive and psychological experiences of a human being. Accordingly, the material manifestatio…
Adapting Christianity on the Siberian Edge during the Early Soviet Period
The focus of this article is on different adaptations of Christianity by the northern indigenous peoples of Russia in the early Soviet period.We shall examine the community of Yup'ik Eskimo maritime hunters who experimented with Christian ritual forms in order to overcome the crisis caused by the intrusion of the Soviets.Naukan Yup'ik developed a Christian-influenced ritualistic practice to fight back against growing pressure from the Soviets.We …
Conversion after socialism: Disruptions, modernisms and technologies of faith in the former Soviet Union
The large and sudden influx of missionaries into the former Soviet Union after seventy years of militant secularism has been controversial, and the widespread occurrence of conversion has led to anxiety about social and national disintegration. Although these concerns have been vigorously discussed in national arenas, social scientists have remained remarkably silent about the subject. This volume’s focus on conversion offers a novel approach to …
Adapting Christianity on the Siberian Edge during the Early Soviet Period
The focus of this article is on different adaptations of Christianity by the northern indigenous peoples of Russia in the early Soviet period.We shall examine the community of Yup'ik Eskimo maritime hunters who experimented with Christian ritual forms in order to overcome the crisis caused by the intrusion of the Soviets.Naukan Yup'ik developed a Christian-influenced ritualistic practice to fight back against growing pressure from the Soviets.We …
Pentecostals and Charismatic Protestants in the Republic of Komi and Nenets Tundra
Between 2010 and 2012, an extended team of scholars studied contemporary Protestant groups in Russia. The project was labelled Center for the Study of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements in Russia 1 (CSPCMR) and was led by Aleksandr Panchenko from the European University in Saint Petersburg and Patrick Plattet from the
The Rebirth of a People: Reincarnation Cosmology among the Tundra Yukaghir of the Lower Kolyma, Northeast Siberia
We focus on Tundra Yukaghir reincarnation cosmology and its workings in the current ethnic revival by examining rebirth accounts from the Lower Kolyma. In Sovietized Siberia, the atheist state fought against everything that was “religious” and thus contributed to the wane of reincarnation ideology and related ritual practices. In addition, the state suppressed a distinct Yukaghir ethnicity it had partly constructed itself. In the 1990s, rebirth r…
Continuity and Revitalisation in Sacrificial Rituals by the Eastern Udmurt. Part II. Collective Sacrificial Rituals by the Bashkortostan Udmurt: Revitalisation and Innovation
Continuity and Revitalisation in Sacrificial Rituals by the Eastern Udmurt. Part I. The Collective Sacrificial Rituals by the Bashkortostan Udmurt: Rooted in Tradition
This article focuses on a marginal Udmurt group living in Bashkortostan, which has retained, in a Muslim environment, its original Udmurt religious practice.In some places, in spite of decades of anti-religious Soviet policy, the Udmurt were able to pursue their traditional rituals, thus warranting full continuity of their practice.In other places, the tradition was discontinued for some longer or briefer periods.But everywhere there has been a r…
“We Cannot Pray Without Kumyshka ”: Alcohol in Udmurt Ritual Life
We trace the history of the uses of the alcoholic drink known as kumyshka among the Udmurt. Our focus is on kumyshka ’s ritual uses both in public and domestic contexts in the second half of the 19th century, the early 20th century as well as the early 21st century. We suggest that kumyshka not only represents a site of resistance to the dominant religious regime, i.e. Russian Orthodoxy, but is also a tool for self-enhancement and identity making…
Buying a God in Paris: Cultural Hybridity in the Thinking of Yuri Vella, Forest Nenets Intellectual
This paper analyses highly creative and hybrid practices which tie the Indigenous Siberian, European Christian and Soviet worlds in unexpected ways. Reflecting on the Forest Nenets reindeer herder, poet and intellectual Yuri Vella’s understanding of the religious, the authors discuss an episode of turning an icon-like painting of Madonna with Child into a Nenets ‘god’. This took place in Paris half a year before Yuri’s death. First, we present hi…
Forum: The Material Turn and the Anthropology of Religion
Material religion" as a research program is a relatively new development in the study of religion in the social sciences and humanities. Though this approach has its own forerunners and predecessors, one can argue that it took shape in the wake of an epistemological critique of social and cultural anthropology which treated religion as embedded in the cognitive and psychological experiences of a human being. Accordingly, the material manifestatio…
Preface to the Special Issue: Living Animisms and Monotheisms in the Finno-Ugric World
This special issue addresses the religion of the Finno-Ugric peoples, with a specific focus on animist religiosity and its contemporary expression in Finno-Ugric societies.*This is a subject that has recently featured prominently in significant forums, and this collection of papers is particularly influenced by discussions at two major conferences: the Congress of the European Association for the Study of Religions (EASR) in Cork in June 2022, an…
Arvo Valton – in memoriam: Séminaire à Badacsonytomaj, décembre 2024
Soome-ugri kogemus ja kohanemine. Saatesõna
Soome-ugri rahvaid 1 käsitlevat uurimistööd on vorminud uurijate huvid, praktilised võimalused, teadusdistsipliinide ja institutsioonide põhimõtted, ideoloogilised voolud ja poliitilised režiimid.Peamine tõmbejõud nii teadlaskonnas kui ka ühis konnas laiemalt on olnud hõimluse idee, mis algselt lähtus keelesugulusest, kuid laienes ajapikku kujutluseks ühisest päritolust ja kultuurilisest lähedusest.XIX sajandil keele suguluse teooriate ja rahvusl…
Vastuolulised sõjad ja kestev kolonisatsioon neenetsi tundras
This article examines how long-term colonial domination shapes attitudes toward war, violence, and the state among Nenets reindeer herders in the European tundra and the Polar Urals. Drawing on historical sources, contemporary media, open-source data on wartime casualties and mobilization, and long-term ethnographic fieldwork among private reindeer-herding families (2000–2017), I trace changes in relations between Nenets and lutsa – a term referr…
History (8 works) · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (4 works)