Bruce Grant
Biographic Data
| ID | 82782 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bruce Grant |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bruce |
| FAMILY NAME | Grant |
| SIGNATURE | GRANT B |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2771-7733 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 158 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1948 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Perceived benefits of open data are improving but scientists still lack resources, skills, and rewards
Addressing global scientific challenges requires the widespread sharing of consistent and trustworthy research data. Identifying the factors that influence widespread data sharing will help us understand the limitations and potential leverage points. We used two well-known theoretical frameworks, the Theory of Planned Behavior and the Technology Acceptance Model, to analyze three DataONE surveys published in 2011, 2015, and 2020. These surveys ai…
Foot anatomy, walking energetics, and the evolution of human bipedalism
Slippage: An Anthropology of Shamanism
If our knowledge of shamanism has been so abidingly partial, so impressively uneven, so deeply varied by history, and so enduringly skeptical for so long, how has its study come to occupy such pride of place in the anthropological canon? One answer comes in a history of social relations where shamans both are cast as translators of the unseen and are themselves sites of anxiety in a very real world, one of encounters across lines of gender, class…
In the Soviet House of Culture: A Century of Perestroikas
Missing Links. Indigenous Life and Evolutionary Thought in the History of Russian Ethnography
The history of Russian social anthropology has long been best known for the work of three, late nineteenth‐century “exile ethnographers,” each sent to the Russian Far East for their anti‐tsarist activities as students. All three men—Vladimir Bogoraz, Vladimir Iokhel'son, and Lev Shternberg—produced voluminous and celebrated works on Russian far eastern indigenous life, but it was the young Shternberg who had perhaps the most profound effect on se…
The Edifice Complex: Architecture and the Political Life of Surplus in the New Baku
“Art belongs to the people,” Vladimir Lenin famously pronounced at the outset of the Soviet period. For generations, Soviet leaders and their constituents alike had a deft sense of art in the service of state power, including the placement of spectacular architectural monuments among its fast-urbanizing populations. In the post-Soviet age, nationalizing leaders have been equally quick to embrace the ready spectacle of dazzling architecture as the…
In brief: Current projects and publications
Empire speaks out: Languages of rationalization and self-description in the Russian Empire
Cultural Anthropology Playlists
Shrines and Sovereigns: Life, Death, and Religion in Rural Azerbaijan
Shrines fill the Eurasian land mass. They can be found from Turkey in the west to China in the east, from the Arctic Circle in the north to Afghanistan in the south. Between town and country, they can consist of full-scale architectural complexes, or they may compose no more than an open field, a pile of stones, a tree, or a small mausoleum. They have been at the centers and peripheries of almost every major religious tradition of the region: Zor…
The Russia Reader: History, Culture, Politics
Letters recording the reactions of ordinary Russians to the Revolution as events unfolded in 1917, an account of the day-to-day scramble to make a living after the end of the Soviet Union, and excerpts from a sixteenth-century manual instructing elite Muscovites on proper household management— The Russia Reader brings these and many other selections together in this introduction to the history, culture, and politics of the world’s largest country…
Russia Reader: History, Culture, Politics
The Russia reader: History, Culture, Politics
Cosmopolitan Baku
Among the many points of reflection in looking back on the last 100 years in the Caucasus, a particular pride of place for some Azerbaijanis comes in the status of Baku as a cosmopolitan city: a status claimed by historians who speak of the early twentieth-century border crossings between families and trade networks across Turkey and Iran; and more recently, a status claimed by residents of the city from the Soviet 1960s and 1970s, when these div…
Soul Hunters: Hunting, Animism, and Personhood among the Siberian Yukaghirs. By Rane Willerslev
Journal Article Soul Hunters: Hunting, Animism, and Personhood among the Siberian Yukaghirs. By Rane Willerslev Get access Soul Hunters: Hunting, Animism, and Personhood among the Siberian Yukaghirs. By Rane Willerslev. University of California Press, 2007. 229 pages. $24.95. Bruce Grant Bruce Grant New York University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of R…
Sense and Sense Making in the Caucasus
A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya. Anna Politkovskaya. Alexander Burry and Tatiana Tulchinsky, trans., with an introduction by Georgi Derluguian. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. 232 pp. Bourdieu's Secret Admirer in the Caucasus:. World-System Biography. Georgi M. Derluguian. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 416 pp. Chechnya: Life in. War-Torn Society. Valery Tishkov. Tatiana Sokolova, trans., with. foreword b…
Force and diplomacy in the contemporary world
The Good Russian Prisoner: Naturalizing Violence in the Caucasus Mountains
Almost daily, the Caucasus hits the front page. War in Chechnya, the struggles of breakaway republics, oil politics, security issues, and the election of autocrats are among the stories that bring the region to our attention. Much of recent scholarship has focused on these issues in which violence, as it so often does, speaks for itself. At best, one finds a language of challenge and riposte in which conflicts are read as retributive justice for …
The Traffic in Brides
Petr Lom's film, Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan, offers viewers a striking visual narration of the deeply routinized practices of bride capture in contemporary Central Asia. In this review, I offer historical context eschewed by the film, observing how, contrary to popular belief, bride kidnapping increased under Russian imperial supervision. It later dwindled in the activist Soviet period, but rose again in the relative anarchy of the postsocial…
An Average Azeri Village (1930): Remembering Rebellion in the Caucasus Mountains
In this article, Bruce Grant advocates an anthropological perspective for understanding resistance to early Soviet rule, given that not all anti-Soviet rebellions operated by the same cultural logic. Combining oral histories and archival evidence to reconstruct highly charged events in rural northwest Azerbaijan, where as many as 10,000 men and women joined to overthrow Soviet power in favor of an Islamic republic in 1930, Grant examines moral ar…
Transparency and Conspiracy: Ethnographies of Suspicion in the New World Order
Society for Cultural Anthropology: Reminder: SCA Spring 2004 Meeting on “Sovereignty
Mapping the Pleasures and Risks of Supervision
Good supervision is central to successful graduate research, yet it is a pedagogy that is poorly understood. This may be one reason why it is often experienced as problematic, especially by students. To address these concerns, in this paper I delineate a map of supervision which is informed by contemporary theories of education. As I describe the layers of the map, I will attempt to show traces of each layer in some texts from the supervision of …
Russia and Soul: An Exploration
Russia and Soul: An Exploration. Dale Pesmen. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. 364 pp
Industrial Melanism
Industrial melanism refers to the evolution of dark body colours in animal species that live in habitats blackened by industrial soot. The phenomenon has been documented notably in species that hide from predators by blending in with their backgrounds.
New Moscow Monuments, or, States of Innocence
In the 1990s, the Georgian sculptor Zurab Tsereteli triggered a furor over the millions of tax dollars the Moscow city government paid him for his monumental art installations around the Russian capital. Critics have assailed such gross expenditure in a period of economic privation, questioned the propriety of Tsereteli's ties to power, and ridiculed his often cartoon-like aesthetics. In the embattled new Russian state, this infantilization of pu…
Cosmopolitan Baku
Among the many points of reflection in looking back on the last 100 years in the Caucasus, a particular pride of place for some Azerbaijanis comes in the status of Baku as a cosmopolitan city: a status claimed by historians who speak of the early twentieth-century border crossings between families and trade networks across Turkey and Iran; and more recently, a status claimed by residents of the city from the Soviet 1960s and 1970s, when these div…
Disciplining Students: The construction of student subjectivities
While we usually think of higher education as a process through which every able individual's potential may be realised more fully, it can also be seen as one of arbitrarily disciplining the student to particular ends. One of these ends is the production of the ‘good’, or docile and useful, student subject. A Foucauldian analysis of the university as a disciplinary block, an institution saturated with relations of power, points to the ways in whi…
The Edifice Complex: Architecture and the Political Life of Surplus in the New Baku
“Art belongs to the people,” Vladimir Lenin famously pronounced at the outset of the Soviet period. For generations, Soviet leaders and their constituents alike had a deft sense of art in the service of state power, including the placement of spectacular architectural monuments among its fast-urbanizing populations. In the post-Soviet age, nationalizing leaders have been equally quick to embrace the ready spectacle of dazzling architecture as the…
The Good Russian Prisoner: Naturalizing Violence in the Caucasus Mountains
Almost daily, the Caucasus hits the front page. War in Chechnya, the struggles of breakaway republics, oil politics, security issues, and the election of autocrats are among the stories that bring the region to our attention. Much of recent scholarship has focused on these issues in which violence, as it so often does, speaks for itself. At best, one finds a language of challenge and riposte in which conflicts are read as retributive justice for …
Shrines and Sovereigns: Life, Death, and Religion in Rural Azerbaijan
Shrines fill the Eurasian land mass. They can be found from Turkey in the west to China in the east, from the Arctic Circle in the north to Afghanistan in the south. Between town and country, they can consist of full-scale architectural complexes, or they may compose no more than an open field, a pile of stones, a tree, or a small mausoleum. They have been at the centers and peripheries of almost every major religious tradition of the region: Zor…
Slippage: An Anthropology of Shamanism
If our knowledge of shamanism has been so abidingly partial, so impressively uneven, so deeply varied by history, and so enduringly skeptical for so long, how has its study come to occupy such pride of place in the anthropological canon? One answer comes in a history of social relations where shamans both are cast as translators of the unseen and are themselves sites of anxiety in a very real world, one of encounters across lines of gender, class…
Mapping the Pleasures and Risks of Supervision
Good supervision is central to successful graduate research, yet it is a pedagogy that is poorly understood. This may be one reason why it is often experienced as problematic, especially by students. To address these concerns, in this paper I delineate a map of supervision which is informed by contemporary theories of education. As I describe the layers of the map, I will attempt to show traces of each layer in some texts from the supervision of …
Transparency and Conspiracy: Ethnographies of Suspicion in the New World Order
Russia and Soul: An Exploration
Russia and Soul: An Exploration. Dale Pesmen. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. 364 pp
An Average Azeri Village (1930): Remembering Rebellion in the Caucasus Mountains
In this article, Bruce Grant advocates an anthropological perspective for understanding resistance to early Soviet rule, given that not all anti-Soviet rebellions operated by the same cultural logic. Combining oral histories and archival evidence to reconstruct highly charged events in rural northwest Azerbaijan, where as many as 10,000 men and women joined to overthrow Soviet power in favor of an Islamic republic in 1930, Grant examines moral ar…
In the Soviet House of Culture: A Century of Perestroikas
After the USSR: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Politics in the Commonwealth of Independent States
Foot anatomy, walking energetics, and the evolution of human bipedalism
Sense and Sense Making in the Caucasus
A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya. Anna Politkovskaya. Alexander Burry and Tatiana Tulchinsky, trans., with an introduction by Georgi Derluguian. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. 232 pp. Bourdieu's Secret Admirer in the Caucasus:. World-System Biography. Georgi M. Derluguian. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 416 pp. Chechnya: Life in. War-Torn Society. Valery Tishkov. Tatiana Sokolova, trans., with. foreword b…
The global context of Australian‐Northeast Asian relations: Some comments on the Garnaut Report
(1990). The global context of Australian‐Northeast Asian relations: Some comments on the Garnaut Report. Australian Journal of International Affairs: Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 3-7
Isaac Hull, Captain of Old Ironsides
New men with new styles: A Prime Minister of the right
Toward a New Balance in Asia: An Australian View
Sea of Heartbreak
The global context of Australian‐Northeast Asian relations: Some comments on the Garnaut Report
(1990). The global context of Australian‐Northeast Asian relations: Some comments on the Garnaut Report. Australian Journal of International Affairs: Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 3-7
Disciplining Students: The construction of student subjectivities
While we usually think of higher education as a process through which every able individual's potential may be realised more fully, it can also be seen as one of arbitrarily disciplining the student to particular ends. One of these ends is the production of the ‘good’, or docile and useful, student subject. A Foucauldian analysis of the university as a disciplinary block, an institution saturated with relations of power, points to the ways in whi…
In the Soviet House of Culture: A Century of Perestroikas
In the Soviet House of Culture: A Century of Perestroikas
After the USSR: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Politics in the Commonwealth of Independent States
Cracks in the Iron Closet: Travels in Gay and Lesbian Russia
Cracks in the Iron Closet: Travels in Gay and Lesbian Russia. David Tuller. Boston, MA: Faber and Faber, 1996. 313 pp
Some reflections on 1975
Industrial Melanism
Industrial melanism refers to the evolution of dark body colours in animal species that live in habitats blackened by industrial soot. The phenomenon has been documented notably in species that hide from predators by blending in with their backgrounds.
Storming the Heavens: The Soviet League of the Militant Godless
Moscow Diaries
Book reviewed in this article: Buck‐Morss, Susan, Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West
New Moscow Monuments, or, States of Innocence
In the 1990s, the Georgian sculptor Zurab Tsereteli triggered a furor over the millions of tax dollars the Moscow city government paid him for his monumental art installations around the Russian capital. Critics have assailed such gross expenditure in a period of economic privation, questioned the propriety of Tsereteli's ties to power, and ridiculed his often cartoon-like aesthetics. In the embattled new Russian state, this infantilization of pu…
Society for Cultural Anthropology: Reminder: SCA Spring 2004 Meeting on “Sovereignty
Mapping the Pleasures and Risks of Supervision
Good supervision is central to successful graduate research, yet it is a pedagogy that is poorly understood. This may be one reason why it is often experienced as problematic, especially by students. To address these concerns, in this paper I delineate a map of supervision which is informed by contemporary theories of education. As I describe the layers of the map, I will attempt to show traces of each layer in some texts from the supervision of …
Russia and Soul: An Exploration
Russia and Soul: An Exploration. Dale Pesmen. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. 364 pp
An Average Azeri Village (1930): Remembering Rebellion in the Caucasus Mountains
In this article, Bruce Grant advocates an anthropological perspective for understanding resistance to early Soviet rule, given that not all anti-Soviet rebellions operated by the same cultural logic. Combining oral histories and archival evidence to reconstruct highly charged events in rural northwest Azerbaijan, where as many as 10,000 men and women joined to overthrow Soviet power in favor of an Islamic republic in 1930, Grant examines moral ar…
Transparency and Conspiracy: Ethnographies of Suspicion in the New World Order
Force and diplomacy in the contemporary world
The Good Russian Prisoner: Naturalizing Violence in the Caucasus Mountains
Almost daily, the Caucasus hits the front page. War in Chechnya, the struggles of breakaway republics, oil politics, security issues, and the election of autocrats are among the stories that bring the region to our attention. Much of recent scholarship has focused on these issues in which violence, as it so often does, speaks for itself. At best, one finds a language of challenge and riposte in which conflicts are read as retributive justice for …
The Traffic in Brides
Petr Lom's film, Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan, offers viewers a striking visual narration of the deeply routinized practices of bride capture in contemporary Central Asia. In this review, I offer historical context eschewed by the film, observing how, contrary to popular belief, bride kidnapping increased under Russian imperial supervision. It later dwindled in the activist Soviet period, but rose again in the relative anarchy of the postsocial…
Sense and Sense Making in the Caucasus
A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya. Anna Politkovskaya. Alexander Burry and Tatiana Tulchinsky, trans., with an introduction by Georgi Derluguian. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. 232 pp. Bourdieu's Secret Admirer in the Caucasus:. World-System Biography. Georgi M. Derluguian. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 416 pp. Chechnya: Life in. War-Torn Society. Valery Tishkov. Tatiana Sokolova, trans., with. foreword b…
Soul Hunters: Hunting, Animism, and Personhood among the Siberian Yukaghirs. By Rane Willerslev
Journal Article Soul Hunters: Hunting, Animism, and Personhood among the Siberian Yukaghirs. By Rane Willerslev Get access Soul Hunters: Hunting, Animism, and Personhood among the Siberian Yukaghirs. By Rane Willerslev. University of California Press, 2007. 229 pages. $24.95. Bruce Grant Bruce Grant New York University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of R…
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