Andrei A. Znamenski
Assistant Professor of History
Office: Mitchell Hall
Phone: 901-678-3389
e-mail: aznamenski@gmail.com
Candidate of Historical Sciences
St. Petersburg Pedagogical
University, St. Petersburg, Russia
PhD, University of Toledo, OH
Selected Publications
The
Beauty of the Primitive:
Shamanism and Western Imagination
(Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2007)
“Power of Myth: Popular Ethnonationalism and Nationality Building
in Mountain Altai, 1904-1922,”Acta Slavica Iaponica 22 (2005):
25-52.
Shamanism:Critical Concepts in Sociology. 3 vols. London: Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2004
Shamanism in Siberia: Russian Records of Indigenous
Spirituality. Dordrecht (The
Netherlands): Kluwer/Springer, 2003.
Through
Orthodox Eyes: Russian
Missionary Narratives of Travels to the Dena'ina and Ahtna, 1850s-1930s.
Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2003.
Shamanism
and Christianity: Native Encounters with Russian Orthodox Missions in Siberia
and Alaska, 1820-1917. Westport, CT:
Greenwood Press, 1999.
"They Want to Accept Baptism Very Much": An Abortive
Orthodox Mission to the Ahtna Indians, 1850s-1930s (paper presentation at
the Library of Congress conference "Meetings of Frontiers" (2001).
Major interests
- Indigenous
people of northern Asia and Alaska
- Shamanism
- Western
primitivism and esotericism
- Nature
religions in the West
- Russia,
Siberia
- Russian
Orthodox Church
- Nationalism
Snapshots of field and
archive research and travel:
- Alaska: Athabaskan
Indians and Russian Orthodox Church
- Siberia: Indigenous people
and missionaries
- Prophesy from Inner Asia: Religion Ak Jang and
Identity in the Mountain Altai, 1870s-1920 (under construction)