Alexander Manuylov

Stilling: stipendiat

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E-post: Alexander.Manuylov@sosantr.uib.no

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My PhD project "Russian Greeks / Greek Russians: Parameters of Transitive Identity" deals with a problem of constructing identity among the so-called Pontian Greeks during the process of their ‘repatriation' from Russia and other Post-Soviet countries to Greece (since 1989). The main principle of the approach I use in my thesis is that ‘identity' is a special kind of discourse, which is formed under the influences of different other discourses being a complex field of intersections of various discourses, old and new, Greek and Russian/Soviet and creates ‘community' or ‘communities', in my case - the communities of ‘Pontic Greeks'. This discourse is widespread among different groups of (post)soviet Greeks (and their members) who formulate their ‘Greekness' (orally, in interviews, or literally, in different kind of texts) to identify themselves as a part of the ‘mainland' Greeks. The act of identifying in itself has a twofold character - simultaneously primordial (they must be recognized as Greeks, i.e. those who has common ‘ethnic roots' with the population of Greece) and constructivist (they have never lived in Greece nor their ancestors). Therefore, my task is to determine different sources of the contemporary on Pontic Greek identity against the background of current political events and social, economical and symbolical problems connected with the ‘repatriation'.

Regional keywords: Greece, Russia, Post-Soviet countries

Thematic keywords: discourse analysis, identity construction, migrations (pendulum migrations, 'repatriation,' trans-migrations)

 

Publikasjoner i Cristin

Publications in Russian:
2008. 'Social and economic transformations in a village in the South of Russia: Description and brief analysis.' In: Kasyanova, Alexandra (ed.) Rural Metamorphoses. Krasnodar: Publishing House "Dedkoff," pp. 21-40.

2007. Traditional law of the Kuban Cossacks. Saint-Petersburg: Aletheya, 248 p.

2007. ‘Practices of privacy in South Russian village (case-study).' In: Anthropological Forum. No. 6, pp. 177-204.

2003. ‘Customary law: Between reflexion and constructing.' In: Manuylov, Alexander (ed.) Social organization and traditional law - 2: Materials of science conference. Krasnodar, Forthcoming.

2003 [ed.]. Social organization and traditional law - 2: Materials of science conference. Krasnodar, Forthcoming.

2001. ‘System of traditional-law statuses and parameters of institutionalization in the Black-Sea Cossack Voysko during 1792-1794.' In: Manuylov, Alexander (ed.) Social organization and traditional law: Materials of science conference. Krasnodar, pp. 162-173.

2001 [ed.]. Social organization and traditional law: Materials of science conference. Krasnodar: "Vol'nyye Mastera", 2001. 332 p.

1999. ‘«Let Sidor in!»: Some words on the question of attribution the ritual.' In: From the cultural heritage of the Kuban Slav population. Krasnodar, 29-49.

1999. ‘Traditional law of the Kuban Cossacks and state legislation: Stages of interference." In: Questions in the history of North Caucasus. Iss. 4, Armavir, pp. 13-21.

1998. ‘Mechanism of culture tradition's transmission and social institutes of the Kuban Cossacks (the late 18th - 19th centuries).' In: Archeology and ethnography of the North Caucasus. Krasnodar, pp. 221-250.

1998. Women statuses in family and village community of the Kuban Cossacks according to customary law system (second part of 19th - 1920s). Armavir; Krasnodar: n/e, 66 p.

1998. ‘Crime and punishment according to the customary law of the Kuban Cossacks: Theft and mob law.' In: Voice of the past: Kuban history journal. № 3-4, pp. 14-20.

1995. ‘Spatial-temporal organization of ‘dolya' mythologeme: (On the analysis of non-ritual songs of the Black-Sea Cossacks).' In: The Kuban Cossacks: History, ethnography, folklore. Moscow, pp. 273-326.

1995. ‘Materials for bibliography on ethnology and folklore of the Kuban Cossacks.' In: The Kuban Cossacks: History, ethnography, folklore. Moscow, 1995. P. 345-364. (In collaboration with A.I.Slutskiy.)

1994. ‘Correlation ‘milk-child' in language, myth and ritual of the East Slavs and the ancient Indians." In: Traditional culture and children. Iss. 1. Krasnodar, pp. 84-107.

1994. ‘Folk knowledge of the Black-Sea Cossacks in the mid-19th century according to the data of I.D.Popka." In: In Memoriam Ivan Diomidovitch Popko: Materials of Science and Practice Conference dedicated to centenary of the day of historian's death. Krasnodar, pp. 17-25.

1993. ‘Hsiung-nu: Traditions and customs.' In: Museum Herald. Krasnodar. Iss. 1. pp. 44-70.

 

2006-2008: Project "Dispersing villages? Globalization in a rural way in post-soviet Russia" (supported by J. and K. MacArthur Foundation, grant #06-86346-000-GSS), head of the project, researcher.

2004-2006: Project "Modern rural life between customary law and legislation: Social transformations in rural communities of Krasnodar region" (supported by J. and K.MacArthur Foundation, grant #04-81050-000-GSS), head of the project.

2002-2005: Project "Fernab der Städte: Leben auf dem Lande in Osteuropa. Ländliche Lebenswelten in Rußland, Estland und Bulgarien" (supported by Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft), researcher, head of the South Russian group.

2002: Project "Summer School in research methodology for social and conflict studies in the North Caucasian region in Russia" (supported by J. and K.MacArthur Foundation, grant #02-73075-000-GSS), head of the project.

2000-2002: Project "Traditional law of the Kuban Cossacks as an Institute of Social Control" (supported by J. and K.MacArthur Foundation, individual grant # 99-61789-000).

2000- : Project "Closed communities: Social structure, regulation, practices."

2000 - : Project "Problems of constituting of the regional science community (social sciences and humanities)."

1997-1999: Project "Traditional law of the Kuban Cossacks as an Institute of Social Control: Tradition and Modernization" (supported by J. and K.Macarthur Foundation, individual grant #97-47061-FSU).

1996-1999: Project "Social history and structure of the Kuban Cossacks (the late 18th century - 1920s)."