Academic Degree: PhD

Academic Rank: Honorary Professor of Anthropology of the Cambridge university (Great Britain)

Position: Professor of Department of Social Anthropology

Affiliation: Cambridge university (Great Britain)

Contact Data:

ch10001@cam.ac.uk

General Information:

Education and Training, Previous Employing Institutions

Graduated Cambridge university, Social anthropology

Education and Training:

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Research Interests: social and cultural anthropology

List of Most Essential Works:

Deportees in Society // Inner Asia Volume 21, Issue 1, 2019, Pp. 38–60;

To smile and not to smile: Mythic gesture at the Russia-China border // Social Analysis Volume 62, Issue 1, March 2018, Pp. 1–54;

Loyalty and disloyalty along the Russian–Chinese border// History and Anthropology Volume 28, Issue 4, 8 August 2017, Pp. 399–405;

Loyalty and disloyalty as relational forms in Russia’s border war with China in the 1960s// History and Anthropology Volume 28, Issue 4, 8 August 2017, Pp. 497-514;

‘Remote’ areas and minoritized spatial orders at the Russia — Mongolia border // Etudes Mongoles et Siberiennes, Centrasiatiques et TibetainesVolume 2015, Issue 46, 12 September 2015, 19 p;

Schism, event, and revolution: The old believers of trans-baikalia // Current Anthropology Volume 55, 1 December 2014, Pp. 216–225;

Detachable groups and kinship tensions: The tsongol at the Russian-qing border// Inner Asia Volume 16, Issue 1, 19 August 2014, Pp. 34–63;

Fear as a property and an entitlement // Social Anthropology Volume 21, Issue 3, August 2013, Pp. 285–304;

Some ideas of Saussure applied to Buryat magical drawings // Social Anthropology and Language 1 January 2013, Pp. 271-290;

The Afterlife of the 8th Mergen Gegen // The Making of Mongolian Buddhism, 2013;

Die rituelle Einstellung // Ritualtheorien, 2012;

The 'Creative Bureaucrat': Conflicts in the Production of Soviet Communist Party Discourse // Inner Asia, 2008;

Tomorrow's social workers in the UK // European Journal of Social Work, 2006;

Rituals of Death in Mongolia: Their Implications for Understanding the Mutual Constitution of Persons and Objects and Certain Concepts of Property // Inner Asia, 1999;

Shamans in the city // Anthropology Today, 1999.