University of Alaska Fairbanks
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UAF
Department of Anthropology
Faculty
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Peter
Schweitzer
Office: Eielson 304a
Phone: 907 474-5015
Email: ffpps.uaf.edu
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UAF Department of Anthropology
310 Eielson Building
P.O. Box 757720
Fairbanks, AK 99775
Main telephone: 907- 474-7288
Fax: 907 474-7453
E-mail: fyanth@uaf.edu
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Profile
I was born and raised in Austria, where I also received my
anthropological education. During the 1980s, I became fascinated
with the mysterious country that no longer exists, the Soviet
Union. A student exchange program enabled me to study in Leningrad
for one academic year in 1986/87 and to begin ethnohistoric
research about the Chukchi Peninsula in the Russian Far East,
which led to Ph.D. degree awarded by the University of Vienna
in 1990. Since 1990, I had several opportunities for longer
and shorter field trips to Chukotka and, more recently, to the
Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). Since 1992, I have also been conducting
fieldwork in various communities on the Seward Peninsula in
Alaska. I joined the faculty of the Department of Anthropology
at UAF in 1991.
My topical interests, in addition to the above-mentioned historical
inquiries, encompass social organization (kinship, gender, politics),
hunter-gatherer studies, the history of anthropology, transnationalism
and other forms of interethnic contact, as well as practices
and ideologies of colonialism and their local impacts. I am
currently working on two books exploring different aspects of
the history of anthropology (one of them portraying the anthropology
of Siberia as an international enterprise, the other summarizing
the contributions of German-language anthropology). In addition,
a recently completed grant on “mixed” communities
in Northeastern Siberia will continue to inform my publications
in years to come. A recently awarded interdisciplinary grant,
about freshwater on the Seward Peninsula, will provide me with
an opportunity to explore the interface between local and western
scientific perceptions of global change.
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Selected Publications
| 2003a |
"Levels of Inequality in the North Pacific
Rim: Cultural Logics and Regional Interaction," in
Hunter-Gatherers of the North Pacific Rim, J. Habu, J.M.
Savelle, S. Koyama and H. Hongo, Eds. (Senri Ethnological
Series 63). Osaka, Japan: National Museum of Ethnology:
83-101. |
| 2003b |
"Failing At Bering Strait? The Jesup
North Pacific Expedition and the Study of Culture Contact,"
in Constructing Cultures Then and Now: Celebrating Franz
Boas and the Jesup North Pacific Expedition. Laurel Kendall
and Igor Krupnik, Eds. Washington, DC: Arctic Studies Center,
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution:
49-61. |
| 2002 |
"Jäger, Tierseelen und Umweltschützer.
Indigene und europ&au
ml;ische Umweltbilder auf der Tschuktschen-Halbinsel"
[Hunters, Animal Souls, and Environmentalists: Indigenous
and European Concepts of the Environment on the Chukchi
Peninsula], in Metamorphosen der Natur. Ethnologische Studien
zum Verhältnis von Weltbild und natürlicher Umwelt.
[Metamorphoses of Nature: Ethnological Studies on the Relationship
between Worldviews and Natural Environments], A. Gingrich,
E. Mader, Eds. Vienna: Böhlau: 317-335 |
| 2001a |
(together with Evgeniy Golovko) "Pamyat'
o voyne: konstruirovanie vneshnego konflikta v kul'ture
etnicheskikh obshchnostey Beringova proliva" ['Memories
of Warfare: The Construction of External Conflict in the
Indigenous Communities of the Bering Strait Area'], in Trudy
fakul'teta etnologii Evropeyskogo universiteta v Sankt-Peterburge.
St. Petersburg: Evropeyskiy universitet v Sankt-Peterburge:
26-37. |
| 2001b |
"Richard B. Lee and Irven DeVore: Man
the Hunter," in Hauptwerke der Ethnologie [M
ain Works of Ethnology], Christian F. Feest and Karl-Heinz
Kohl, eds. Stuttgart: Alfred Kröner Verlag: 224-228. |
| 2001c |
"Arctic: Sociocultural Aspects,"
in International Encyclopedia of the Social
and Behavioral Sciences. London: Elsevier. Volume 1: 649-652. |
| 2000a |
(editor) Dividends of Kinship: Meanings and
Uses of Social Relatedness. London: Routledge. |
| 2000b |
(co-editor with Megan Biesele and Robert K.
Hitchcock) Hunters and Gatherers in the Modern World: Conflict,
Resistance, and Self-Determination. New York: Berghahn Books. |
| 2000c |
The Social Anthropology of the Russian Far
North," in The Arctic: Environment, People, Policy.
Mark Nuttall and Terry V. Callaghan, Eds. Amsterdam: Harwood
Academic Publishers: 411-439. |
| 2000d |
"Introduction," in Dividends of
Kinship: Meanings and Uses of Social Relatedness. Peter
Schweitzer, Ed. London: Routledge: 1-32 |
| 2000e |
"Silence and Other Misunderstandings:
Russian Anthropology, Wester
n Hunter-Gatherer Debates, and Siberian Peoples," in
Hunters and Gatherers in the Modern World: Conflict, Resistance,
and Self-Determination. Peter P. Schweitzer, Megan Biesele,
Robert K. Hitchcock, Eds
. New York: Berghahn Books: 29-51 |
| 2000f |
(together with Patty A. Gray) "The Chukchi
and Siberian Yupiit of the Russian Far East," in Endangered
Peoples of the Arctic: Struggles to Survive and Thrive.
Milton M. R. Freeman, Ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press:
17-37. |
| 1999 |
"The Chukchi and Siberian Yupik of the
Chukchi Peninsula, Russia," in The Cambridge Encyclopedia
of Hunters and Gatherers, Richard B. Lee and Richard Daly,
Eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 137-141. |
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