Dr. John Ziker is an Associate Professor with the Department of Anthropology. Since 1992 Dr. Ziker has conducted field research in Siberia, mainly on the topics of indigenous land tenure and economy. Other on-going research initiatives examine food-sharing networks and demographics in that region. In addition to extensive research activities, Dr. Ziker has published in a variety of journals including the Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Anthropology News, and Ecology of Food and Nutrition. Most recently, Dr. Ziker served as the Fulbright Visiting Chair in North American Studies at the University of Calgary.
Articles
Nonmarket Cooperation in the Indigenous Food Economy of Taimyr, Arctic Russia: Evidence for Control and Benefit, Behavioral and Brain Sciences (2004)
Empirical data on food sharing in native Dolgan, Nganasan, and Nenets communities in Siberia provide...
Presentations
Violent Death in Northern Siberia: Application of Evolutionary Hypotheses, Evolution of Human Aggression: Lessons for Today's Conflicts, The Barbara L. and Norman C. Tanner Center for Nonviolent Human Rights Advocacy (2009)
Ust-Avam is an indigenous community of 500 individuals north of the Arctic Circle on the...
“Kinship and Gender in Taimyr, Russia.” Workshop Gender Shift in Northern Communities of Russia, Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and the Wenner-Gren Foundation (2008)
This presentation explores the extent to which relations between men and women in Northern communities...
"Food Distribution Among Hunter-Gatherers in Northern Siberia: Tests of Evolutionary Hypotheses", Invited Session: New Research in the Evolutionary Ecology of Food Transfer, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (2007)
Empirical data on food procurement and distribution combined with socio-demographic information on givers and recipients...
Student Mentored Research
Household and Property Relations in Tuva (2009)
This thesis describes the transformation of households and property relations in one of the remote...