E A Melnikova
Biographic Data
| ID | 800793 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E A Melnikova |
| GIVEN NAMES | E A |
| FAMILY NAME | Melnikova |
| SIGNATURE | MELNIKOVA E A |
| AFFILIATIONS | European University at St. Petersburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6764-9240 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Heritage Boom, the Care Society, and New Regimes of Saving the Past
The article examines the recent heritage boom, characterised by the rise of grassroots activism, focusing on the growth of informal initiatives and communities dedicated to preserving material remnants of the past. The author compares traditional volunteer mobilisation with the connective and situational logics of collective action used in modern civic heritage projects. Drawing on Ulrich Beck’s concept of the risk society, the study identifies a…
Forum
This “Forum” discusses various aspects of critical heritage studies: the current state of this research field, its internal and external boundaries, the specifics of the Russian context, conceptual and methodological problems, current and perspective issues. The participants reflect on their personal experience of existence in the field of heritage, including a combination of an involved/applied and research position, point out the importance of …
Border Memory and the Politics of Territoriality in the Russian-Finnish Borderland
The article is concerned with contemporary changes in the spatialization of the Russian-Finnish borderland as an example of re-bordering politics. The main material is a long-term ethnographic study in the territory of former Finnish Karelia, ceded by Finland to the Soviet Union following World War II. By extending the historical context of bilateral relations between the USSR (later Russia) and Finland, the article questions the implications of …
Forum 64
This "Forum" considers attitudes towards theories and theoretical knowledge among ethnologists and anthropologists. Answering questions from the forum organisers, its participants discuss the need for a common "grand theory" that would unite the entire anthropological community, the tense relationship between theory and description, the causes, manifestations and effects of theory fatigue - and also the need for it, its shortage - and overproduct…
Sharing and Conquering
This paper studies the shared shrine of Valaam, an important outpost of official Orthodoxy and a pilgrimage destination in contemporary Russia, but which still retains its significance as a site of memory and utopia for the secular urban intellectuals who engaged in its preservation in the late Soviet years. The personal accounts of former residents forced to leave the archipelago after the revival of the monastery in the late 1990s and early 200…
From "vernacular museums" to the "do-it-yourself past
This article examines the idea of "vernacular museums" as it was put forth by Irina Kyzlasova and Elena Chesnokova in an earlier issue of the journal. In response to the authors' idea, I aim to further develop the line of argumentation, proposing to broaden the scope of analysis for this phenomenon. The article explores the issues surrounding the application of the term "vernacular museum." These obstacles include the presence of previous iterati…
Afterword to an Unpublished Forum
The questions in the fifty-sixth issue of Antropologicheskij Forum addressed the changes that have taken place in our lives and workover the past year. By focusing on the concept of “boundaries”, theeditors invited the authors to reflect on the changes that are occuringtoday in our professional practices, in the field, and in our understandingof the profession. The Forum was meant to be a platformfor dialogue between people not only divided, but …
Valaam memory breaks
The article is focused on the memorial community of Valaam, which evolved after the buildings of Valaam Monastery were handed over to the Russian Orthodox Church and the locals were forced to leave the island. I turn to an analysis of a variety of recollections and different forms of incorporating the history of the archipelago into the personal biographies of its recent inhabitants. Considering Valaam as an essential place of memory in the biogr…
The transubstantiation of culture, or the Question of where to stick a toothpick in the Kolomna pastille museum
The article analyzes the museum’s interactive program as a ritual of cultural production that allows it to transform the material substance of a gastronomic delicacy into a symbolically significant cultural artifact, and for the participants of this ritual to acquire cultural experience and “taste history”. Problematizing the existing approaches to the study of culture and starting from Annemarie Mol’s book on the body multiple, the author aims t…
Wildlife Infrastructure on the Territory of the Valaam Monastery
a c t. the paper is grounded on the autoethnography of the field research conducted by the author in the Valaam Monastery in the summer of 2019. in an attempt of distancing from the "religious-secular" dichotomy, the author employs her backpacker experience as an entrance into the field, analytical tool and research optics. the author argues that backpacker tourism rooted in the practices of the late soviet intelligentsia is still popular among t…
“A Summary of a Very Complex and Large Topic”
Краткое изложение очень сложной и большой темы»: лекция Кирилла Васильевича Чистова (д.Васильево, о.Кижи).Записано старшим научным сотрудником музея-заповедника «Кижи» Р. Б. Калашниковой 14 июня 1997 г. (комментарий и подготовка к публикации Е. А. Мельниковой)* а н н о та Ц и я.В фонограммархиве музея-заповедника «кижи» есть документ под названием «экспедиционная запись беседы с Чистовым к.В.» (д.Васильево, о. кижи, 14 июня 1997 г.).Вероятно, это…
The Biographies of Urban-Rural Move and the Rhetoric of Self-Transformation in Present-Day Russia
The Village in Urban Projections of Modern Russians
“All Breathes of Russ… ”
Е. А. Мельникова «ЗДЕСЬ РУССКИЙ ДУХ...»: К ИСТОРИИ РУССКОГО СЕВЕРА НА СИМВОЛИЧЕСКОЙ КАРТЕ ВООБРАЖАЕМОЙ РОССИИ А Н Н О Т А Ц И Я. Статья посвящена значению понятия «Русский Север» в контексте российской, а затем советской национальной политики, и особенностям его использования в этнографической практике XIX-XX вв.Наиболее распространенная до конца XIX в. категория «русский Север» была инструментом символического присвоения инородческой территории …
Finnish Cemeteries in Russia
А н т р о п о
By the People’s Hands
the paper is concerned with the development of the search movement in the uSSr and aims at two main goals: to recover the contradictions in the relationship between the sledopyty (pathfinders) and the state in the 1960-80s, and to identify the inherent mechanisms of the movement which shaped its role and significance in the everyday life of the Soviet people in the Brezhnev era. the article is broken into several sections focused on memorial poli…
Rukami naroda
А н т р
The Uropathogens Structure and Prevalence in the Urinary Truct Infection in Children
The purpose was to monitor the bacteriological urine studies in children with urinary tract infection (UTI) in departments of multidisciplinary hospital. 1 838 results of bacteriological examinations of urine samples of children with urinary tract infection were analyzed for 7 years (2007-2013). The obtained data were processed using the methods of parametric analysis. The urine microbial spectrum differed between ambulatory patients and the pati…
Accuracy and Reliability as Criteria of Informativeness in the News Story
The article clarifies the meaning of the terms accuracy and reliability of the news story, offers a researcher's approach to obtaining objective data that helps to verify linguistic means of accuracy and reliability presence in the informative structure of the text. The accuracy of the news story is defined as a high relevance degree of event reflection through language representation of its constituents; the reliability is viewed as news story o…
Prevalence of Urolithiasis in Children of Primorsky Krai Towns With Different Anthropo-Man-Induced Load
Influence of anthropo-man-induced load on Dysmetabolic Nephropathy (DMN) and Urolithiasis (U) prevalence in children of the Primorsky Krai has been studied. The study design included a sanitary, epidemiological and clinical stages. 513 children aged 3-14 years, born and residing in three towns of the Primorsky Krai with different degrees of anthropo-man-induced load stress have been examined (in Vladivostok, Dalnegorsk and Partizansk). The highes…
I'm writing about you. Please accept my apologies
Rukami naroda
А н т р
From "vernacular museums" to the "do-it-yourself past
This article examines the idea of "vernacular museums" as it was put forth by Irina Kyzlasova and Elena Chesnokova in an earlier issue of the journal. In response to the authors' idea, I aim to further develop the line of argumentation, proposing to broaden the scope of analysis for this phenomenon. The article explores the issues surrounding the application of the term "vernacular museum." These obstacles include the presence of previous iterati…
I'm writing about you. Please accept my apologies
Accuracy and Reliability as Criteria of Informativeness in the News Story
The article clarifies the meaning of the terms accuracy and reliability of the news story, offers a researcher's approach to obtaining objective data that helps to verify linguistic means of accuracy and reliability presence in the informative structure of the text. The accuracy of the news story is defined as a high relevance degree of event reflection through language representation of its constituents; the reliability is viewed as news story o…
Prevalence of Urolithiasis in Children of Primorsky Krai Towns With Different Anthropo-Man-Induced Load
Influence of anthropo-man-induced load on Dysmetabolic Nephropathy (DMN) and Urolithiasis (U) prevalence in children of the Primorsky Krai has been studied. The study design included a sanitary, epidemiological and clinical stages. 513 children aged 3-14 years, born and residing in three towns of the Primorsky Krai with different degrees of anthropo-man-induced load stress have been examined (in Vladivostok, Dalnegorsk and Partizansk). The highes…
The Uropathogens Structure and Prevalence in the Urinary Truct Infection in Children
The purpose was to monitor the bacteriological urine studies in children with urinary tract infection (UTI) in departments of multidisciplinary hospital. 1 838 results of bacteriological examinations of urine samples of children with urinary tract infection were analyzed for 7 years (2007-2013). The obtained data were processed using the methods of parametric analysis. The urine microbial spectrum differed between ambulatory patients and the pati…
By the People’s Hands
the paper is concerned with the development of the search movement in the uSSr and aims at two main goals: to recover the contradictions in the relationship between the sledopyty (pathfinders) and the state in the 1960-80s, and to identify the inherent mechanisms of the movement which shaped its role and significance in the everyday life of the Soviet people in the Brezhnev era. the article is broken into several sections focused on memorial poli…
Rukami naroda
А н т р
“All Breathes of Russ… ”
Е. А. Мельникова «ЗДЕСЬ РУССКИЙ ДУХ...»: К ИСТОРИИ РУССКОГО СЕВЕРА НА СИМВОЛИЧЕСКОЙ КАРТЕ ВООБРАЖАЕМОЙ РОССИИ А Н Н О Т А Ц И Я. Статья посвящена значению понятия «Русский Север» в контексте российской, а затем советской национальной политики, и особенностям его использования в этнографической практике XIX-XX вв.Наиболее распространенная до конца XIX в. категория «русский Север» была инструментом символического присвоения инородческой территории …
Finnish Cemeteries in Russia
А н т р о п о
The Biographies of Urban-Rural Move and the Rhetoric of Self-Transformation in Present-Day Russia
The Village in Urban Projections of Modern Russians
Wildlife Infrastructure on the Territory of the Valaam Monastery
a c t. the paper is grounded on the autoethnography of the field research conducted by the author in the Valaam Monastery in the summer of 2019. in an attempt of distancing from the "religious-secular" dichotomy, the author employs her backpacker experience as an entrance into the field, analytical tool and research optics. the author argues that backpacker tourism rooted in the practices of the late soviet intelligentsia is still popular among t…
“A Summary of a Very Complex and Large Topic”
Краткое изложение очень сложной и большой темы»: лекция Кирилла Васильевича Чистова (д.Васильево, о.Кижи).Записано старшим научным сотрудником музея-заповедника «Кижи» Р. Б. Калашниковой 14 июня 1997 г. (комментарий и подготовка к публикации Е. А. Мельниковой)* а н н о та Ц и я.В фонограммархиве музея-заповедника «кижи» есть документ под названием «экспедиционная запись беседы с Чистовым к.В.» (д.Васильево, о. кижи, 14 июня 1997 г.).Вероятно, это…
The transubstantiation of culture, or the Question of where to stick a toothpick in the Kolomna pastille museum
The article analyzes the museum’s interactive program as a ritual of cultural production that allows it to transform the material substance of a gastronomic delicacy into a symbolically significant cultural artifact, and for the participants of this ritual to acquire cultural experience and “taste history”. Problematizing the existing approaches to the study of culture and starting from Annemarie Mol’s book on the body multiple, the author aims t…
Afterword to an Unpublished Forum
The questions in the fifty-sixth issue of Antropologicheskij Forum addressed the changes that have taken place in our lives and workover the past year. By focusing on the concept of “boundaries”, theeditors invited the authors to reflect on the changes that are occuringtoday in our professional practices, in the field, and in our understandingof the profession. The Forum was meant to be a platformfor dialogue between people not only divided, but …
Valaam memory breaks
The article is focused on the memorial community of Valaam, which evolved after the buildings of Valaam Monastery were handed over to the Russian Orthodox Church and the locals were forced to leave the island. I turn to an analysis of a variety of recollections and different forms of incorporating the history of the archipelago into the personal biographies of its recent inhabitants. Considering Valaam as an essential place of memory in the biogr…
Sharing and Conquering
This paper studies the shared shrine of Valaam, an important outpost of official Orthodoxy and a pilgrimage destination in contemporary Russia, but which still retains its significance as a site of memory and utopia for the secular urban intellectuals who engaged in its preservation in the late Soviet years. The personal accounts of former residents forced to leave the archipelago after the revival of the monastery in the late 1990s and early 200…
From "vernacular museums" to the "do-it-yourself past
This article examines the idea of "vernacular museums" as it was put forth by Irina Kyzlasova and Elena Chesnokova in an earlier issue of the journal. In response to the authors' idea, I aim to further develop the line of argumentation, proposing to broaden the scope of analysis for this phenomenon. The article explores the issues surrounding the application of the term "vernacular museum." These obstacles include the presence of previous iterati…
Border Memory and the Politics of Territoriality in the Russian-Finnish Borderland
The article is concerned with contemporary changes in the spatialization of the Russian-Finnish borderland as an example of re-bordering politics. The main material is a long-term ethnographic study in the territory of former Finnish Karelia, ceded by Finland to the Soviet Union following World War II. By extending the historical context of bilateral relations between the USSR (later Russia) and Finland, the article questions the implications of …
Forum 64
This "Forum" considers attitudes towards theories and theoretical knowledge among ethnologists and anthropologists. Answering questions from the forum organisers, its participants discuss the need for a common "grand theory" that would unite the entire anthropological community, the tense relationship between theory and description, the causes, manifestations and effects of theory fatigue - and also the need for it, its shortage - and overproduct…
The Heritage Boom, the Care Society, and New Regimes of Saving the Past
The article examines the recent heritage boom, characterised by the rise of grassroots activism, focusing on the growth of informal initiatives and communities dedicated to preserving material remnants of the past. The author compares traditional volunteer mobilisation with the connective and situational logics of collective action used in modern civic heritage projects. Drawing on Ulrich Beck’s concept of the risk society, the study identifies a…
Forum
This “Forum” discusses various aspects of critical heritage studies: the current state of this research field, its internal and external boundaries, the specifics of the Russian context, conceptual and methodological problems, current and perspective issues. The participants reflect on their personal experience of existence in the field of heritage, including a combination of an involved/applied and research position, point out the importance of …
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