Professor David Anderson

Professor David Anderson
Professor David Anderson
Professor David Anderson

Chair in The Anthropology of the North

About
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

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
 
  • 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

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.org

 

2011-2013 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-g

Past 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/boreas

2006-2010        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=en

2008-2009           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/read  

2005-2008                 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=1181730334233

2005-2007         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.html

 2003-2008         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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  • Review of 'Settlers on the edge: identity and modernization on Russia's Arctic frontier'

    Anderson, D. G.
    Slavic Review, vol. 69, no. 2, pp. 523-524
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
  • The ethnodemography of the Taiga peoples in the vicinity of the Vitim-Olekma gold mines during the first quarter of the 20th Century

    Volzhanina, E., Anderson, D. G.
    Sibirica : Interdisciplinary Journal of Siberian Studies, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 66-90
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Picturing Central Siberia: a research report on the digitisation and analysis of early twentieth century Central Siberian photographic collections

    Anderson, D. G., Campbell, C.
    Sibirica : Interdisciplinary Journal of Siberian Studies, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 1-42
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Book Review of "Jean-Guy Goulet and Bruce Miller eds. 'Extraordinary Anthropology: Transformations in the Field for Social Anthropology'

    Anderson, D.
    Social Anthropology, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 246-247
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
  • Book Review of "Etudes mongoles et Sibériennes. Special Issue on l’Orientation. 2005-2006 (vol 36-37)

    Anderson, D. G.
    Sibirica : Interdisciplinary Journal of Siberian Studies, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 74-77
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
  • Book Review of 'Michael Melancon. The Lena Goldfields Massacre and the Crisis of the Late Tsarist State'

    Anderson, D. G.
    Sibirica : Interdisciplinary Journal of Siberian Studies, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 65-67
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
  • Faith, Identity, and Ethnogenesis: Memory and belonging among Lake Yessei Yakuts

    Anderson, D.
    Defining Self: Essays on emergent identities in Russia. Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries. Branch, M. (ed.). SKS Kirjat, pp. 334-348, 15 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
  • Prostranstvennai͡a demografii͡a «dal'neĭ taĭgi» doliny reki Zhuĭ v Vostochnoĭ Sibiri

    Anderson, D. G.
    Izvestii͡a Laboratorii drevnikh tekhnologiĭ, vol. 1, no. 7, pp. 224-246
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Vozmozhnosti fosfatnogo metoda pri opredelenii struktury zhivotnovodcheskikh poselenii

    Anderson, D., Kharinskii, A., Serkhova, I., Shpeizer, G.
    Izvestiia Laboratorii Derevenei Tekhnologi. Irkutskii Gosudarstvennyi Tekhnologicheskii Universitet, pp. 24-38, 15 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
  • Comment on Donahoe et al. ‘Size and Place in the Construction of Indigeneity’

    Anderson, D.
    Current Anthropology, vol. 49, no. 6, pp. 1009-1010
    Contributions to Journals: Comments and Debates
  • Book review: “Rane Willerslev. Soul Hunters: Hunting, Animism and Personhood among the Siberian Yukaghirs."

    Anderson, D. G.
    The Russian Review, vol. 67, no. 3, pp. 550-551
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
  • Book review of “Ernest S. Burch,, Jr. Social Life in Northwest Alaska”

    Anderson, D. G.
    Polar Record, vol. 44, no. 02, pp. 187-188
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
  • Book review of “Cornelius Osgood. Winter. The Strange and Haunting Record of One Man’s Experiences in the Far North"

    Anderson, D. G.
    Social Anthropology, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 127-129
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
  • Book review of “Susan Crate. Cows, Kin, and Globalization: An Ethnography of Sustainability”

    Anderson, D. G.
    Slavic Review, vol. 67, no. 2, pp. 531-532
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
  • Book review of “Molly Lee, and Gregory L. Reinhardt (eds.) Eskimo Architecture”

    Anderson, D. G.
    Sibirica : Interdisciplinary Journal of Siberian Studies, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 95-96
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
  • Book review of “Sneath, David (ed.) States of Mind: Power, Place and the Subject in Inner Asia"

    Anderson, D. G.
    Central Asian Survey, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 102-103
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
  • Reindeer-herders: field-notes from the Kola peninsula (1994-95) – By Yulian Konstantinov: Book review

    Anderson, D. G.
    Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 256-257
    Contributions to Journals: Literature Reviews
  • Book review of "Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union"

    Anderson, D. G.
    Sibirica : Interdisciplinary Journal of Siberian Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 139-141
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
  • Katanga Evenkis in the 20th Century and the Ordering of the Life-world

    Sirina, A., Anderson, D. (ed.)
    CCI Press
    Books and Reports: Books
  • Mobile Architecture and Social Life: The Case of the Conical Skin Lodge in the Putoran Plateau Region

    Anderson, D. G.
    Les civilisations du renne d’hier et d’aujourd’hui.: Approches ethnohistoriques, archéologiques et anthropologiques. Vate, V., Beyries, S. (eds.). Editions APDCA, pp. 43-63, 21 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
  • Dwellings, storage and summer site structure among Siberian Orochen Evenkis: Hunter-gatherer vernacular architecture under post-Socialist conditions

    Anderson, D. G.
    Norwegian Archaeological Review, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 1-26
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Book Review of "Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia

    Anderson, D. G.
    Inner Asia, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 142-145
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
  • Revitalisering av sjamanism og reindrift øst for Baikal

    Anderson, D.
    Ottar, pp. 37-41
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • The Turukhansk Polar Census Expedition of 1926-192727 at the Crossroads of Two Scientific Traditions

    Anderson, D. G.
    Sibirica : Interdisciplinary Journal of Siberian Studies, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 24-61
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Zhilishcha, mesta khranenii͡a i letnie postroĭki ėvenkov-orochenov: narodnai͡a arkhitektura okhotnikov-sobirateleĭ v postsovetskikh uslovii͡akh

    Anderson, D. G.
    Izvestii͡a Laboratorii drevnikh tekhnologiĭ, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 333-339
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • An ethnographer’s early years: Boris Dolgikh as enumerator for the 1926/27 polar census

    Anderson, D. G., Savoskul, S.
    Polar Record, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 235-251
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Book Review of "David Colins (ed). Collected Works of M.A. Czaplicka [4 volumes]

    Anderson, D. G.
    Slavonic and East European Review, vol. 83
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
  • Book Review of "Lucien Turner. Ethnology of the Ungava District [reprint]

    Anderson, D. G.
    Social Anthropology, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 364-365
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
  • Book Review of "Verdery, Katherine. The Vanishing Hectare: Property and Value in Postsocialist Transylvania”

    Anderson, D. G.
    Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 184-185
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
  • Book Review of “Andrei Znamenksii. Shamanism in Siberia: Russian Records of Indigenous Spirituality”

    Anderson, D. G.
    Polar Record, vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 366-367
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
  • Book Review of “Kendall, Laurel and Igor Krupnik (eds). Constructing Cultures Then and Now: Celebrating Franz Boas and the Jesup North Pacific Expedition”

    Anderson, D. G.
    BC Studies, vol. 146, pp. 110-112
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
  • Book review of “Erich Kasten (ed.) Properties of Culture- Culture as Property”

    Anderson, D. G.
    Acta Borealia, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 91-93
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
  • Book review of “Alexia Bloch. Red Ties and Residential Schools"

    Anderson, D. G.
    American Ethnologist, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 1001-1002
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
  • Book review of “David Colins (ed). Siberian Discovery [12 volumes]"

    Anderson, D. G.
    Slavonic and East European Review, vol. 84, no. 1, pp. 153-155
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
  • Everything is Still Before You: The Irony of Youth Discourse in Siberia

    Anderson, D. G.
    Sibirica : Interdisciplinary Journal of Siberian Studies, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 14-30
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Turukhanskaia ekspeditsiia Pripoliarnogo perepisi: Etnografiia i demografiia malochislennykh narodov Severa

    Anderson, D. G.
    Polikor, Krasnoiarsk. 448 pages
    Books and Reports: Books
  • Turukhanskaia perepisnaia ekspeditsiia 1926-27gg. na perekrestke dvukh nauchnykh traditsii

    Anderson, D. G.
    Turukhanskaia ekspeditsiia Pripoliarnogo perepisi: Etnografiia i demografiia malochislennykh narodov Severa. Anderson, D. (ed.). Polikor, pp. 7-33, 26 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
  • Cultivating Arctic Landscapes: Knowing and Managing Animals in the Circumpolar North

    Anderson, D. G., Nuttall, M.
    Berghahn Books, Oxford. 256 pages
    Books and Reports: Books
  • Nationality and ‘Aboriginal Rights’ in post-Soviet Siberia

    Anderson, D. G.
    Senri Ethnological Studies, vol. 66, pp. 247-269
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Reindeer, caribou and 'fairy stories' of state power

    Anderson, D. G.
    Cultivating Arctic Landscapes: Knowing and Managing Animals in the Circumpolar North. Anderson, D., Nuttall, M. (eds.). Berghahn Books, pp. 1-16, 15 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
  • Primal life force under the ice

    Anderson, D. G.
    Times Higher Education Supplement
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Introduction: Towards an ethnography of ecological underprivilege

    Berglund, E., Anderson, D. G.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Forewords and Postscripts
  • Ethnographies of Conservation: Environmentalism and the Distribution of Privilege

    Anderson, D. G., Berglund, E.
    Berghahn Books, Oxford. 256 pages
    Books and Reports: Books
  • Introduction: Towards an Ethnogragraphy of Ecological Underpriviledged

    Anderson, D. G., Berglund, E.
    Ethnographies of Conservation: Environmentalism and the Distribution of Privilege. Berglund, E., Anderson, D. (eds.). Berghahn Books, pp. 1-18, 17 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
  • The Ecology of Markets in Central Siberia

    Anderson, D. G.
    Ethnographies of Conservationists: Environmentalism and the Distribution of Privilege. Anderson, D. G., Berglund, E. (eds.). Berghahn Books, pp. 155-170, 15 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
  • Entitlements, identity and time: addressing Aboriginal rights and nature protection in Siberia's new resource colonies

    Anderson, D. G.
    People and the Land: pathways to reform in post-Soviet Siberia. Kasten, E. (ed.). Dietrich Reimer Verlag, pp. 99-123, 25 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
  • The Suslov Legacy: The Story of One Family’s Struggle with Shamanism

    Anderson, D. G., Orekhova, N.
    Sibirica : Interdisciplinary Journal of Siberian Studies, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 88-113
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Saqqaq: an Inuit hunting community in the modern world.

    Anderson, D.
    Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 390-391
    Contributions to Journals: Literature Reviews
  • Hunting Caribou and Hunting Tradition

    Anderson, D. G.
    Parks , Property, and Power: Managing Hunting Practice and Identity within State Policy Regimes. Anderson, D. G., Ikeya, K. (eds.). National Museum of Ethnology, pp. 7-26, 19 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
  • Parks, Property and Power: Managing hunting practices and identity within state policy regimes

    Anderson, D. G., Ikeya, K.
    Senri Ethnological Studies, vol. 59, pp. 7-26
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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