Olga Balalaeva
Biographic Data
| ID | 926510 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olga Balalaeva |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olga |
| FAMILY NAME | Balalaeva |
| SIGNATURE | BALALAEVA O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Director of Translation, NSF Arctic Social Sciences Grant [email protected] |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3126-8830 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Sharing the World With Bears
Conservation regimes and governmental relations with Indigenous peoples both vary widely. Successfully resolving conflicts arising from human-wildlife interactions (HWI) is complicated by the existence of multiple ontologies not only among various publics but within historically-marginalized and fragmented Indigenous communities. Current models of HWI are being reevaluated in order to better understand how humans and animals, including large carn…
Valuing Difference
This article draws on a large archive of original video documentation to complement ethnographic literature to provide the first description of modern Eastern Khanty bear ceremonialism and locate it in relation to the traditions of other Ob-Ugrian groups. The comparative analysis of Ob-Ugrian bear ceremonial traditions underscores fundamental differences in the function of such ceremonies, highlights foundational elements of local group identity,…
Technology, Performance and the Preservation of Cultural Heritage, or the Bear Festival and the Yugan Khanty Digital Media Center
О.Э
The Myth of the World Tree in the Shamanism of Siberian Peoples. Comments
A Tale of Two Sisters
Categorical oppositions such as Tradition and Modernity are often employed to explain conventional behavior, because there is a presumed consonance between the goals of the agent and the values of the context in which the agent acts, but such categorical oppositions do not seem to effectively model acts of choosing. An individual Khant experiences a sense of participating in several social identities, each providing a context for forming intentio…
Crisis, Conversion, and Conflict
This article discusses preliminary findings from our research into the activity of evangelical missionaries among the Khanty of Surgut region, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug. Our aim is to begin to define the nature and the scale of recent developments in the religious life among the eastern Khanty; to understand why evangelical missionary activity among the Khanty has met with some success; to discover how the conflicts it precipitates make visib…
National communities, native land tenure, and self‐determination among the Eastern Khanty
Field work conducted among the Eastern Khanty between 1993 and 1996 disclosed that patterns of land use, community development, and political activity among the Eastern Khanty, while motivated in part by external ideologies and the collapse of the Soviet system, also represent transformations of historical models adapted to resist the impact of petroleum development in the post‐Soviet era. The argument is presented and elaborated that, apart from…
Crisis, Conversion, and Conflict
This article discusses preliminary findings from our research into the activity of evangelical missionaries among the Khanty of Surgut region, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug. Our aim is to begin to define the nature and the scale of recent developments in the religious life among the eastern Khanty; to understand why evangelical missionary activity among the Khanty has met with some success; to discover how the conflicts it precipitates make visib…
Valuing Difference
This article draws on a large archive of original video documentation to complement ethnographic literature to provide the first description of modern Eastern Khanty bear ceremonialism and locate it in relation to the traditions of other Ob-Ugrian groups. The comparative analysis of Ob-Ugrian bear ceremonial traditions underscores fundamental differences in the function of such ceremonies, highlights foundational elements of local group identity,…
National communities, native land tenure, and self‐determination among the Eastern Khanty
Field work conducted among the Eastern Khanty between 1993 and 1996 disclosed that patterns of land use, community development, and political activity among the Eastern Khanty, while motivated in part by external ideologies and the collapse of the Soviet system, also represent transformations of historical models adapted to resist the impact of petroleum development in the post‐Soviet era. The argument is presented and elaborated that, apart from…
Crisis, Conversion, and Conflict
This article discusses preliminary findings from our research into the activity of evangelical missionaries among the Khanty of Surgut region, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug. Our aim is to begin to define the nature and the scale of recent developments in the religious life among the eastern Khanty; to understand why evangelical missionary activity among the Khanty has met with some success; to discover how the conflicts it precipitates make visib…
A Tale of Two Sisters
Categorical oppositions such as Tradition and Modernity are often employed to explain conventional behavior, because there is a presumed consonance between the goals of the agent and the values of the context in which the agent acts, but such categorical oppositions do not seem to effectively model acts of choosing. An individual Khant experiences a sense of participating in several social identities, each providing a context for forming intentio…
Technology, Performance and the Preservation of Cultural Heritage, or the Bear Festival and the Yugan Khanty Digital Media Center
О.Э
The Myth of the World Tree in the Shamanism of Siberian Peoples. Comments
Sharing the World With Bears
Conservation regimes and governmental relations with Indigenous peoples both vary widely. Successfully resolving conflicts arising from human-wildlife interactions (HWI) is complicated by the existence of multiple ontologies not only among various publics but within historically-marginalized and fragmented Indigenous communities. Current models of HWI are being reevaluated in order to better understand how humans and animals, including large carn…
Valuing Difference
This article draws on a large archive of original video documentation to complement ethnographic literature to provide the first description of modern Eastern Khanty bear ceremonialism and locate it in relation to the traditions of other Ob-Ugrian groups. The comparative analysis of Ob-Ugrian bear ceremonial traditions underscores fundamental differences in the function of such ceremonies, highlights foundational elements of local group identity,…
Geography (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Ethnology (5 works) · History (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (3 works)