14 Aug 2007

Siberian Studies Centre
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Munich, Germany
Self-description: "The Siberian Studies Centre was founded in mid 2002. Building upon the successful work of the Siberia Project Group (which existed from 2000 to 2002), our aim is to establish a permanent centre for anthropological studies of Siberia, the Russian North and Far East at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. [...] The research fellows and associates of the Siberian Studies Centre explore the diversity of ways of life existing in present-day Siberia, the North and the Far East of Russia. Their investigations address issues that the groups and individuals living in this region perceive as most topical and challenging. Individual interests meet in four broadly defined fields, which constitute the 'backbone' of the research programme in the period 2003-2007: 1. 'Negotiating the Land' (environmental perception, land use and access to resources); 2. 'Generation and Gender' (diversity of life-styles, strategies of life management, and disparity of living conditions); 3. 'Religion, Conversion, and Spirituality' (the social dynamics of established and newly emerging religious denominations); 4. 'Ethnicity and Indigeneity' (ethno-politics in the everyday practice of Siberians)."
URL http://www.eth.mpg.de/research/ssc/index.html
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Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
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