Joachim Otto Habeck
Joachim Otto Habeck is professor at the Institute for Social And Cultural Anthropology, Hamburg University, since April 2014.
From 2003 to 2014 he was Coordinator of the Siberian Studies Centre at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany.
Earlier, he was PhD student under the supervision of Piers Vitebsky at the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge University, and research assistant on two interdisplinary projects (TUNDRA and SPICE) for Tim Ingold, University of Aberdeen. In these functions, he conducted research on environmental perception and the current state of reindeer husbandry in the Republic of Komi and the Nenets Autonomous Okrug. From this research resulted his 2005 monograph and several articles (see CV). He also published on the political dynamics of ethnicity among the Komi and Nenets.
From 2006 to 2010 he conducted research on public institutions in the sphere of culture in Russia, notably on the House of Culture (Dom kultury) in several Siberian fieldsites. This research is part of a comparative research project, "Social Significance of the House of Culture" (Donahoe, Habeck, Halemba, Sántha & Safonova, Vaté), see
www.eth.mpg.de/research/ssc/house_of_culture/intro.html
In 2008-13 Habeck coordinated a team of researchers (Bagdasarova, Barchunova, Beletskaia, Broz, Dudeck, Istomin, Long, Nakhshina, Peers, Rabogoshvili, Schröder, Zuev) that look into the "Conditions and Limitations of Lifestyle Plurality" in Siberia. Results of this research are forthcoming.
Address: Institut fuer Ethnologie,
Universitaet Hamburg,
Edmund Siemers Allee 1 West #229,
Hamburg
Germany
D-20146
From 2003 to 2014 he was Coordinator of the Siberian Studies Centre at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany.
Earlier, he was PhD student under the supervision of Piers Vitebsky at the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge University, and research assistant on two interdisplinary projects (TUNDRA and SPICE) for Tim Ingold, University of Aberdeen. In these functions, he conducted research on environmental perception and the current state of reindeer husbandry in the Republic of Komi and the Nenets Autonomous Okrug. From this research resulted his 2005 monograph and several articles (see CV). He also published on the political dynamics of ethnicity among the Komi and Nenets.
From 2006 to 2010 he conducted research on public institutions in the sphere of culture in Russia, notably on the House of Culture (Dom kultury) in several Siberian fieldsites. This research is part of a comparative research project, "Social Significance of the House of Culture" (Donahoe, Habeck, Halemba, Sántha & Safonova, Vaté), see
www.eth.mpg.de/research/ssc/house_of_culture/intro.html
In 2008-13 Habeck coordinated a team of researchers (Bagdasarova, Barchunova, Beletskaia, Broz, Dudeck, Istomin, Long, Nakhshina, Peers, Rabogoshvili, Schröder, Zuev) that look into the "Conditions and Limitations of Lifestyle Plurality" in Siberia. Results of this research are forthcoming.
Address: Institut fuer Ethnologie,
Universitaet Hamburg,
Edmund Siemers Allee 1 West #229,
Hamburg
Germany
D-20146
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Lifestyle in Siberia and the Russian North breaks new ground by exploring the concept of lifestyle from a distinctly anthropological perspective. Showcasing the collective work of ten experienced scholars in the field, the book goes beyond concepts of tradition that have often been the focus of previous research, to explain how political, economic and technological changes in Russia have created a wide range of new possibilities and constraints in the pursuit of different ways of life.
Each contribution is drawn from meticulous first-hand field research, and the authors engage with theoretical questions such as whether and how the concept of lifestyle can be extended beyond its conventionally urban, Euro-American context and employed in a markedly different setting. Lifestyle in Siberia and the Russian North builds on the contributors’ clear commitment to diversifying the field and providing a novel and intimate insight into this vast and dynamic region.
This book provides inspiring reading for students and teachers of Anthropology, Sociology and Cultural Studies and for anyone interested in Russia and its regions. By providing ethnographic case studies, it is also a useful basis for teaching anthropological methods and concepts, both at graduate and undergraduate level. Rigorous and innovative, it marks an important contribution to the study of Siberia and the Russian North.