![Professor David Anderson Professor David Anderson](/img/200x200/staffpages/uploads/anp011/IMG_4854_1000.jpg)
Chair in The Anthropology of the North
- About
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- Email Address
- david.anderson@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 272772
- Office Address
G5 Edward Wright Building
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen
AB24 4QY
Scotland- School/Department
- School of Social Science
Memberships and Affiliations
- Internal Memberships
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University Duties
- 2010-2012 Steering Committee, Indigenous Masters Prog, Univ of Tromsø
- 2007-2009 Senator, University of Aberdeen
- 2007-2009 Vice President, Aberdeen branch of University and Colleges Union
- 2009 School of Social Sciences working party on academic workload modelling
- 2007-2008 AUCU representative, Working Party on Promotion Regulations
- 2007-2008 AUCU representative, Joint [Union and University] Negotiating Committee
- 2003-2007 Member, Executive Committee Aberdeen branch of University and Colleges Union
- 2007 Dep’t representative, School of Social Sciences Executive Committee
- 2005 Member, Special School of Social Sciences Committee on Undergraduate Assessment
- 2005 Member, College of Arts and Social Sciences Committee on Teaching and Learning
- 2005 Alternate Member, College of Arts and Social Sciences Committee on Research
Departmental Duties
- 2009 Exams Officer, Department of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen
- 2007-2008 Head of Department, Department of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen (rotating duty)
- 2002-2005 Exams Officer, Department of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen
- 2001-2004 Post-Graduate Student Admissions Officer, Anthropology, University of Aberdeen
- 2000-2005 Undergraduate Student Honours Adviser of Studies, Anthropology, University of Aberdeen
- 2000-2003 Undergraduate Student Honours Adviser of Studies, Sociology, University of Aberdeen
- 2000-2004 Library Officer, Department of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen
Selection Committees
- 2010 Chair, PhD Stipendiat Search Committee, University of Tromsø8
- 2007 Chair, PhD Stipendiat Search Committee, University of Tromsø
- 2006 Chair, PhD Fellowship Search Committee, University of Aberdeen
- 2005 Chair, Postdoctoral Fellowship Search Committee, University of Aberdeen
- 2005 Member, two Lecturer Search Committees, University of Aberdeen
- 2004 Chair, PhD Fellowship Search Committee, University of Aberdeen
- 2004 Member, Lecturer Search Committee, University of Aberdeen
- 2004 Member, Postdoctoral Fellowship Search Committee, University of Aberdeen
- 2002 Member, Lecturer Search Committee, University of Aberdeen
- 1999 Member, Assistant Professor Search Committee, University of Alberta
- External Memberships
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- 2007-2010 External Examiner, Tripos Part II, Department of Social Anthropology, Univ of Cambridge
- 2007-2009 External Committee Member, SSHRCC Standard Research Grant Committee, Canada
- 2004-2006 External Examiner, MPhil in Polar Studies, University of Cambridge
- Research
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Research Overview
political ecology, human-animal relations, development theory, political anthropology, landscape studies, ethnohistory, archaeology, the history of science and cross-cultural ideas of health.
Current Research
Research Areas: Central and Eastern Siberia (Taimyr, Evenkiia, Pribaikal’e, Zabaikal’e, Iakutiia) and the Russian North (Kola, Arkhangel’sk), Northern Norway, and Northwestern Canada (Gwich’in Settlement Region)
Funding and Grants
Current projects
2012-2017 European Research Council Advanced Researcher Grant: Arctic Domus
(total budget €2,497,830 over 5 years)This major research grant aims to develop a new theory of human animal relationships in the circumpolar North based on field and laboratory research in the Canadian, Scandinavian, Alaskan, and Russian Arctic and made up of a team of ten researchers and six cooperating laboratories.
http://arcticdomus.org2011-2013 Wenner Gren Foundation International Collaborative Research Grant
(total budget USD $29,500 over two years)This project, held with the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology in St. Petersburg with Dr. Dmitrii Arziutov, aims to document the history of etnos theory with special reference to Siberian indigenous people through directed interviews and the digitisation of primary archival material.http://www.wennergren.org/grantees/anderson-david-gPast projects
2006-2010 European Science Foundation BOREAS network grant
(total budget of €1,814,000 over three years involving 5 national funding councils)This international network grant is designed to study the vernacular architecture, historical demography and household archaeology of circumpolar hunters over three years. It involves fieldwork in 4 countries and involves researchers based in Norway, USA, Canada, Sweden and Finland. The project involves co-ordinating the activities of 10 co-investigators and 35 project members, and directly managing the work with one post-doctoral fellow, one PhD student, and two contracted workers.
http://site/uit.no/boreas2006-2010 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
(total budget of £110,000 over five years)Prof. Anderson was the 'Ethnoarchaeological Module Leader' for an international MCRI research initiative to investigate the habitation sites and settlement architecture of Evenki, Buriat and Yakut communities in the Lake Baikal Area of Siberia. The component involves ethnohistorical research, historical demographic research, and ethnoarchaeological fieldwork. The project involves co-ordinating the work of 6 contracted archival researchers based in Russia, 3 ethnoarchaeological researchers, and 2 technicians based in Aberdeen.
http://bap.arts.ualberta.ca/about/ethnographic.php?lang=en2008-2009 Economic and Social Research Council (UK)
(total budget £38,000 over two years)In collaboration with Dr. Nicholas Ellison, this project documented the performance of indigeneity in North America and Eurasia, with an international seminar on the topic in9-10 June 2009.
http://esrc.ac.uk/my-esrc/grants/RES-000-22-2883/read2005-2008 Norwegian Research Council, Norway
(total budget of £172,500 over three years)This project is aimed at the recover, digitisation, and interpretation of archival documents from the 1926/27 Polar Census for Western Siberia and the Russian North. It involves one post-doctoral researcher and seven contracted scholars across Russia. This grant also covers 18 months research time release.
http://www.forskningsradet.no/servlet/Satellite?c=Prosjekt&cid=1193731601887&pagename=ForskningsradetNorsk/Hovedsidemal&p=11817303342332005-2007 The British Library Endangered Archives Programme, UK
(total budget of £ 42,000 over one and a half years)This project is designed to research, digitise, and preserve several collections of glass plate negatives of aboriginal people in Siberia in three collections in Central Siberia. The grant covers the employment of two Russian researchers, two PhD students, and equipment.
http://www.bl.uk/about/policies/endangeredarch/anderson.html2003-2008 Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK
(total budget £147,000 over four years)This project is aimed at a review of how archives in Russia and the former Soviet Union serve as an essential part of social memory. The project involves a post-doctoral research fellow and a four contracted Russian scholars.
http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/Funded-Research/Pages/Aboriginal-Land-Rights-in-Siberia-Archival-and-Living-Transcript-at-Lake-Baikal.aspx - Publications
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The terrestrial and spiritual imaginaries of Siberian entitlements of place
Anthropology of Siberia in the Making: Openings and closures from the 1840s to the present. Habeck, O., Vaté, V. (eds.). Lit VerlagChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersForest Nene͡ts Roads: Indigenous Mobilities at the Edge of Extractivism
Weather MattersContributions to Journals: ArticlesProxies and Partial Connections in an Anthropologist’s Archive
British Journal for the History of ScienceContributions to Journals: ArticlesTransnationalism and Rituals of Commensiality
Academia Across the Borders. Melnikova, E., Vasilyeva, Z. (eds.). Verlag der Kulturstiftung Sibirien, pp. 17-20, 4 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersFractal Conversations
A Fractured North – Journeys on Hold. Kasten, E., Krupnik, I., Fondahl, G. (eds.). SEC Publication, pp. 195-210, 16 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersOn Encountering and Holding Reindeer in a Convivial North
The Benefits of the Cold. Stammler, F., Takakura, H. (eds.). RoutledgeChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)Convivial Relations in the North: Reflections on Sentient Relationships and Food Sovereignty
Contributions to Conferences: Oral PresentationsThe politics of submerged heritage: Underground worlds on the Iamal Peninsula (Siberia) and beyond
Contributions to Conferences: Oral PresentationsDiscussant: 5-255 The Good Way, the Good People: Reflecting on (Forgotten) People, Histories, Relationships, Places and Methods
Contributions to Conferences: Oral PresentationsNawken Food Sovereignty: Restoring a recognised presence through collaborative research
Contributions to Conferences: Oral PresentationsAfterword: Concepts that Travel
Sentient Entanglements and Ruptures in the Americas: Human-Animal Relations in the Amazon, Andes, and Arctic. Loovers, P., Bolton, M. (eds.). Brill, pp. 135-145, 10 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004679450_009
From Cultural Landscapes to Cultured Landscapes: an Anthropology of Living with Climate Change
Contributions to Conferences: Oral Presentations- [ONLINE] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn429sFrtN0
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‘Etnos-thinking’ in 1917 and Today
Revolutionary Aftereffects: Material, Social, and Cultural Legacies of 1917 in Russia Today. Swift, M. (ed.). University of Toronto Press, pp. 140-155, 16 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)From the run of rivers to the race into space: A Cold War history of Navigation
Contributions to Conferences: Oral PresentationsPreserved lipid signatures in palaeosols help to distinguish the impacts of palaeoclimate and indigenous peoples on palaeovegetation in northwest Siberia
Organic Geochemistry, vol. 167, 104407Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCamel’s Tail, growing in a forgotten plantation
Circumboreal FoodsBooks and Reports: Other ReportsEvenki peatland grass nirgete brings reindeer home
Circumboreal FoodsBooks and Reports: Other ReportsPuteshestvii͡a cherez sibirskui͡u step' i taĭgu k antropologicheskim kont͡sept͡sii͡am: ėtnoistorii͡a Sergei͡a i Elizavety Shirokogorovykh
Vol. 2/2, Indrik, Moscow. 776 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksPuteshestvii͡a cherez sibirskui͡u step' i taĭgu k antropologicheskim kont͡sept͡sii͡am: ėtnoistorii͡a Sergei͡a i Elizavety Shirokogorovykh
Vol. 2/1, Indrik, Moscow. 456 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksT͡Selye chasti: transnat͡sional'nye traektorii arkhivov Sergei͡a i Elizavety Shirokogorovykh
Antropologicheskii Forum, no. 51, pp. 175–198Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEthnic histories and ethnohistories in the North
Contributions to Conferences: Other ContributionsInfrastructures of Identity across Arctic Homelands
Contributions to Conferences: Oral Presentations- [ONLINE] Conference Abstracts
Circuits of responsibility and blame in the translocation and engineered re-birth of Arctic megafauna: Responsibility and blame in the transformation projects of the Anthropocene
Contributions to Conferences: Other ContributionsCutural Revitalisation
Contributions to Conferences: Other ContributionsDomestication as Enskilment: Harnessing Reindeer in Arctic Siberia
Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 197–231Contributions to Journals: Articles