Staff - 1st / 2nd phase of research

Dr. Florian Stammler

Main fields of research:

Stammler specialised in Arctic social anthropology, particularly the Russian North. His topical interests lie in economic anthropology, pastoralism studies, reindeer herding, indigenous knowledge, fossil resources and political economy, arctic economic systems, and centre-periphery relations.

Since 2003 post doctoral research associate at the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge University, UK. • 2000–2004 PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale. Title of dissertation: "When Reindeer Nomads Meet the Market: Culture, Property and Globalisation at the End of the Land." • 1994–2000 studied Ethnology, Sociology and History in Mainz, Zürich and Cologne, completed with an M.A. Thesis called "Überlebensstrategien im postsozialistschen Rußland: Das Beispiel der rentierzüchtenden Khanty und Nenzen in Nordwestsibirien". (Strategies of Survival in postsocialist Russia: The example of the reindeer herding Khanty and Nenets in northwestern Siberia).

Selected Publications:

The Commoditisation of Reindeer Herding in Post Soviet Russia. Herders, Antlers and Traders in Yamal. In: Streck, B. (ed.): Segmentation und Komplementarität. Organisatorische, ökonomische und kulturelle Aspekte der Interaktion von Nomaden und Sesshaften. Mitteilungen des SFB "Differenz und Integration" 6, OWH 14 (2004), 105–122.

When Reindeer Nomads Meet the Market: Culture, Property and Globalisation at the End of the Land. PhD, MPI for Social Anthropology and University of Halle-Wittenberg. Halle/Saale 2004.

Überlebensstrategien im postsozialistschen Rußland: Das Beispiel der rentierzüchtenden Khanty und Nenzen in Nordwestsibirien. Köln 2003 (Kölner ethnologische Beiträge, Heft 6).

with Aimar Ventsel: Between Neoliberalism and Dirigisme. Approaches to reindeer herding in Yamal and Sakha. In: The Postsocialist Agrarian Question. Property relations and the Rural Condition, ed. by Chris Hann and the "Property Relations" Group, Münster 2003, 321–362. (Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia, vol. 1).

with Jens Abromeit: Der weite Weg. In: GEO Special Arktis-Antarktis, No. 1 February/March 2003, 110–119.

with Patty Gray: Siberia Caught between Collapse and Continuity. In: Max Planck research vol. 2 (2002), 54–61. online version - EN (pdf) · online version - DE (pdf)

Success at the edge of the land: Present and past challenges for reindeer herders of the West-Siberian Yamal-Nenets autonomous Okrug. In: Nomadic Peoples (NS) vol 6,2 (2002), 51–71.

Succes på jordens yderste rand: Eksisterende og tidligere udfordringer for renhyrderne i Vestsibirien Yamal-Nenets autonome okrug. In: Claus Oreskov Infonor (Hg.): Tundraen og tajgaens folk. Kopenhagen 2002, 31–43.

with Tobias Haller, Annia Blöchlinger, Markus John, Esther Marthaler, Sabine Ziegler: West-Sibirien. In: T. Haller [et al] (ed.): Fossile Resourcen, Erdölkonzerne und indigene Völker. Infostudie 12, Giessen 2002, 151–208.