A. Grišinas | D. Brandišauskas | D. Daukšas | I. Šidiškienė | R. Paukštytė-Šaknienė | V. Savoniakaitė | V. Tumėnas | Ž. Šaknys | N. Klumbytė | Z. B. Simon | A. Kitovas
Donatas Brandišauskas, PhD Social Sciences (Social Anthropology)
Chief Researcher
Research interests and specialisations: biopolitical debates; environmental humanities; interspecies relations and crises; history of environmental conservation, natural disasters and adaptations, agricultural/livestock, environmental, hunting lifestyles, movements and worldviews; wilderness concepts, eco-networking initiatives, state-autochthonal relations, history of anthropological/ethnological sciences, perceptions of the landscape, localized skills and knowledge.
Key publications
Books and edited volumes
- Human-animal collectives on the move: Evenki reindeer herding, predators and industries in Siberian taiga. Nebraska University Press, publikuojama 2024.
- Leaving Footprints in the Taiga: Luck, Rituals and Ambivalence Among Orochen-Evenki. Berghahn Press: Oxford, New York, 2017 (2019 m. 2-asis leidimas).
- Lavrillier, A. Dumond, D. Brandišauskas (ed.). Human-environment relations: skills, knowledge, emotions and politics in Siberia and China (Evenk and Even peoples). Études mongoles et sibériennes, centrasiatiques et tibétaines, 2018, t. 49.
- Давыдов B. Симонова В. Сем Т. Брандишаускас Д. Локальная этика отношении с окружающей средой эвенков Байкальской Сибири. Ст. Петербург. Кунсткамера, Российская Академия Наук, 2016.
Book chapters
- From relatives to enemies: emplaced Evenki relationships with wolves in the changing environment of East Siberia and the Russian Far East, sud. F. Stammler and H. Takakura. The benefits of the cold and domestication: a new understanding of human-animal partnerships for survival in extreme environments. Routledge Press, publikuojama 2023.
- Rock art research in Southeast Siberia: history of ideas and ethnographic interpretations, sud. J. P. Ziker, J. Ferguson, V. Davydov. The Siberian World. Routledge Press, 2023.
- Традиционные технологии в современном таежном снаряжении у эвенков Восточной Сибири, ats. red. Л. И. Миссонова, А. А. Сирин. Тунгусо-маньчжурские народы Сибири и Дальнего Востока. Эвенки. Эвены. Негидальцы. Уильта. Нанайцы. ульчи. Удэгейцы. Орочи. Тазы. М.: Наука, 2022.
- Litvakas Voldemaras Jochelsonas – Rytų Sibiro tautų antropologijos pionierius, sud. A. Andrijauskas. Žydų kultūra: istorija ir dabartis. Kronta, 2013, p. 508–523, 547.
- Contested health in the post-Soviet taiga: use of landscape, spirits and strength among Orochen-Evenki of Zabaikal’e (East Siberia), sud. D. G. Anderson. Health and Healing in the Circumpolar North: Southeastern Siberia. Alberta University Press, 2011, p. 125–144.
Publications in peer-reviewed academic journals
- Good to eat and good to dream about: what do nomadic Evenki eat in taiga? Etnografia, 2022, nr. 1(15), p. 28–55.
- Rock art animism in Siberian taiga: contemporary rituality, materiality and land use of Evenki hunters and reindeer herders, Rock Art Archeology (I kvartilė), 2021, nr. 38(2), p. 169–182.
- Living with reindeer thirty years after the socialism: land use, mastery and large reindeer herding among Evenki of Southeast Siberia, Journal of Ethnography and Folkloristics, 2020, nr. 14(1), p. 16–32.
- Sensory perception of rock art in East Siberia and Far East: Soviet archaeological discoveries and indigenous Evenkis, Sibirica, 2020, nr. 19(2), p. 50–76.
- A. Lavrillier, A. Dumond, Brandišauskas D. Human-environment relations: skills, knowledge, emotions and politics in Siberia and China (Evenk and Even peoples), Études mongoles et sibériennes, centrasiatiques et tibétaines, 2018, nr. 49, p. 1–26.
- Gluttons of East Siberia: spirits, poachers and cannibals, sud. A. Lavrillier, A. Dumond, D. Brandišauskas. Evenki perceptions. Human-environment relations: skills, knowledge, emotions and politics in Siberia and China (Evenk and Even peoples), Études mongoles et sibériennes, centrasiatiques et tibétaines, 2018, nr. 49, p. 1–21.
- Įvietinta sėkmė ir galia: Rytų Sibiro autochtonų Oročėnų-Evenkų posovietinio kraštovaizdžio patirtys, Logos, 2012, nr. 73, p. 132–142.
- Making a Home in the Taiga: Movements, Paths and Signs among Orochen-Evenki Hunters and Herders of Zabaikal Krai (South East Siberia), Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics, 2012, nr. 6(1), p. 9–25.
- Leaving Footprints in the Taiga: Enacted and Emplaced Power and Luck among Orochen-Evenki of the Zabaikal Region in East Siberia, Études mongoles et sibériennes, centrasiatiques et tibétaines, 2011, nr. 42, p. 1–8.
- Autochtonų galios sampratos bei raiška: Užbaikalės (Rytų Sibiras, Rusija) oročėnų-evenkų atvejo komparatyvinė studija, Logos, 2011, nr. 67, p. 37–46.
- Hide tanning and its use in taiga: the case of Orochen-Evenki reindeer herders and hunters of Zabaikal’e (East Siberia), Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics, 2011, nr. 4(2), p. 97–114.
- Symbolism and Ecological Uses of Fire among Orochen-Evenki, Sibirica, 2007, nr. 6(1), p. 95–109.
- Старые технологии и современное изготовление таежного снаряжения у эвенков Забайкалья, Известия лаборатории древних технологий, 2017, nr. 13(3), p. 44–57.
- Woldemar Jochelson – a prominent ethnographer of north-eastern Siberia, Acta Orientalia Vilnensia, 2009, nr. 10(1–2), p. 165–179.
- Neformalūs korupciniai santykiai šiandieninėje Lietuvoje: sampratos ir praktikos (blato raidos analizes bandymai), Lietuvos istorijos studijos, 2005, nr. 15, p. 70–80.
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