Wilson Center Experts
Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer
Kennan Institute
Expertise:
Russia and Eurasia
; Russia
Affiliation:
Research Professor, Georgetown University and Editor, Anthropology and Archeology of Eurasia and former Title VIII-supported Research Scholar, Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center
Wilson Center Project(s):
Survival and Demise: Models of Siberian Ethnicity
Project Summary
This research represents an anthropological comparison of three groups: the Ob-Ugrian Khanty, the Turkic Yakut, and the Yukagir of Norther Yakutia, using data derived from frield work in 1975, 1985-1986, interviews with Soviet anthropologists, research in Soviet archives, and from published sources in the USSR and the West.
Previous Terms at the Wilson Center:
Affiliation:
Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Wilson Center Project(s):
The Tenacity of Ethnicity: Strategies of Cultural Survival and Interaction in West Siberia
Term:
Oct 01, 1982
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Oct 31, 1982
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Project Summary
a study of Siberian culture change; field data from participation in a Northern Ob River Soviet ethnographic expedition in the summer of 1976; archival data from the Leningrad Tsentralnyi Gosudarstvennyi Istoricheskii Arkhiv and Tegy and Kazym village records; museum material analysis in Leningrad and Helskinki
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March 08, 2010 // 11:00am — 12:00pm
Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer, Research Professor, Georgetown University, and Editor, Anthropology and Archeology of Eurasia