Alexandra Terekhina – Centre of Arctic and Siberian Exploration

Terekhina Alexandra Nikolaevna

22.09.1987

тел.: +7-981-700-77-61

Education:

2011-2013 Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology Russian Academy of Science, post-graduate student.
Thesis for the candidate‘s Degree (the final state of writing up): «Nomadic school: regional models practices and discourses of preservation of traditional culture in modern education».
2004-2009 Moscow Pedagogical State University, Faculty of History.

Work experience:

· since 2016 г. Centre of Arctic and Siberian Exploration, the Sociological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, anthropologist, researcher;

· 2011-2014 Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Science (http://www.iea.ras.ru), Department of Ethnography of the Peoples of the Far North and Siberia, laboratory assistant.

Language skills:

Russian – native;

Английский – intermediate;

Nenets (Yamal) – intermediate.

Research interests:

Culture of the indigenous peoples of the Far North, Siberia and Far East; reindeer herdering at Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug; social and economic strategies of Yamal Nenets; «tundra» and «sedentary» cultures of aboriginal peoples; education for the children of the indigenous peoples of the North; nomadic education; modern religious practices of the indigenous peoples of the North.

Fieldwork areas:

Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic, the Evenk Municipal Raion, the Taymyr Municipal Raion, the Sakhalin Oblast.

Fieldwork at Yamal:

2017 – fieldwork project «Modern educational models for the nomadic peoples of Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (YNAO)» funded by the Department of education of YNAO supported by the Department of scince and innovations of YNAO (Priuralskiy, Yamalskiy, Nadymskiy and Tazovskiy raions);
2016-2017 – study of problems of modern reindeer herdering of Seyakha and Yarsale tundras funded by the Department of scince and innovations of YNAO;
2015-2016 – Annual ethnographic fieldwork at Yamalskiy raion: research of the modern culture and socio-economic status of private reindeer herders;
2009-2014 – fieldwork project «The influence of the modernizational impacts on the traditions of the indigenous peoples of the Russian North and Siberia 20-21 cc.» (Yamalskiy raion);
2008 г. – fieldwork project «(Neo)religious component of the cultural identity of the small nations of the Russian North and Siberia» (Priuralskiy raion).

Another fieldwork in the areas occupied by the indigenous peoples of the Far North, Siberia and Far East:

2013 – Ethnological monitoring on the request of Exxon Neftegas Limited at Sakhalin;
2013 – fieldwork study of the Dolgan nomadic school models at Hatangskiy raion of Taymyr Municipal Raion;
2012 – fieldwork study of the models of the nomadic education for the indigenous peoples at Aldanskiy and Neryungrinskiy raioins of the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic;
2012 – fieldwork study of the Nenets nomadic schools of Taymyr Municipal Raion;
2011 – Informational-applied mission for collection data concerning further study and recommendations on support of endangered languages (on the example of Evenki language). Fieldwork at the Evenk Municipal Raion.

Selected publications:

Terekhina A. N. Kochevyje shkoly: ogranichenija ili vozmozhnosti. Etnograficheskoje obozrenije. № 2, 2017.

Volkovitskiy A. I., Terekhina A. N. Kochevoy detskiy sad v Yamalskoy tyndre. Salekhard: GU «Severnoje izdatelstvo», 2017.

Volkovitskiy A. I., Terekhina A. N. Ekspertnoje zakluchenije o merah po snizheniju chislennosti pogolovja domashnego severnogo olenja v Yamalskom rajone. YNAO, 2016.

Tishkov V. A. Kolomiez O. P., Martynova E. P., Novikova N. I., Pivneva E. A., Terekhina A. N. Rossijskaja Arktika: korennyje narody I promyshlennoje razvitije. SPb: Nestor-Istorija, 2016.

Funk D. A., Mamontova N. A., Shakhovtsov K. G., Terekhina A. N. Kultura i resursy. Opyt etnologisheskogo obsledovanija sovremennogo polozhenija narodov Severa Sakhalina. Ed.: D. A. Funk. M.: OOO «Izdatelstvo “Demos”», 2015.

Terekhina A. N. Evangelizatsija I jazyki narodov Severa. Sibirskiy sbornik-4. Grani sotsialnogo: Antropologisheskije perspektivy issledovanija sotsialnykh optoshenij I kultury. Ed.: V. N. Davydov, D. V. Arzutov. SPb: MAE RAN, 2014.