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Histories from the North: Environments, Movements, and Narratives (with Florian Stammler), Faculty Authored Books (2012)
Mobility and the Revival of Reindeer Herding among Evenki Hunters in Eastern Siberia, Russia (with Artur Kharinsky), 110th Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association (2011)
Epilogue: From Indigenous Demographics to an Indigenous Demography (with Per Axelsson, Peter Sköld, and David Anderson), Indigenous Populations and Demography: The Complex Relation between Identity and Statistics (2011)
There has always been a close association between enumeration, the classification of peoples and state...
Microdemographics and Indigenous Identity in the Central Taimyr Lowlands, Indigenous Peoples and Demography: The Complex Relation Between Identity and Statistics (2011)
Subsistence and Residence in the Putoran Uplands and Taimyr Lowlands, The 1926/27 Soviet Polar Census Expedition (2011)
The Spatial Demography of the 'Outer Taiga' of the Zhuia River Valley, Eastern Siberia (with David G. Anderson and Evgenii M. Ineshin), The 1926/27 Soviet Polar Census Expeditions (2011)
A census is often associated with the accounting of people; however people always live in...
Changing Gender Roles and Economies in Taimyr, Anthropology of East Europe Review (2010)
This article is an inquiry into the extent to which, and how, roles of men...
Moral Lessons, Down Aisle 9, The New York Times (2010)
Editorial about article 'Markets, Religion, Community Size, and the Evolution of Fairness and Punishment' published...
John Ziker’s Research Featured in Prestigious Journal Science, Boise State University Update (2010)
Markets, Religion, Community Size, and the Evolution of Fairness and Punishment (with Joseph Henrich, Jean Ensminger, Richard McElreath, Abigail Barr, Clark Barrett, Alexander Bolyanatz, Juan Camilo Cardenas, Michael Gurven, Edwins Gwako, Natalie Henrich, Carolyn Lesorogol, Frank Marlowe, and David Tracer), Science (2010)
Large-scale societies in which strangers regularly engage in mutually beneficial transactions are puzzling. The evolutionary...
Introduction to the Special Issue on Siberian Demography (with David G. Anderson), Sibirica (2010)
This special issue of Sibirica features a selection of recent research on the demography of...
Polar Census of 1926/27 in Russia's European North (Arkhangelʹsk guberniia and Komi Autonomous oblastʹ), Faculty Authored Books (2010)
Пожар-Tent' Nenetses `на западной стороне реки Enisei: Экономия пропитания, образ жизни, и социальная организация (with Tayana Arakchaa), Arkangel'sk Guberniia and Komi Autonomous Oblast (2010)
Household and Property Relations in Tuva (2009)
This thesis describes the transformation of households and property relations in one of the remote...
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...
Chronological Insights, Cultural Change, and Resource Exploitation on the West Coast of Sweden During the Late Palaeolithic/Early Mesolithic Transition (with Lou Schmitt, Stephan Larsson, Jan Burdukiewicz, Krister Svedhage, Jeannette Zamon, and Holger Steffen), Oxford Journal of Archaeology (2009)
In this paper, we attempt to shed light on a probable cause of cultural change...
Stress, Alcohol, and Demographic Change in Northern Siberia, Medical Anthropology in Ecological Perspective (2009)
Ust-Avam is an indigenous community of about 700 individuals 300 km north of the Arctic...
“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...
Subsistence and Food Sharing in Northern Siberia: Social and Nutritional Ecology of the Dolgan and the Nganasan, Ecology of Food and Nutrition (2007)
Traditional foraging activities and extensive food sharing are critical to the contemporary nutritional well-being of...
The Social Movement of Meat in Taimyr, Northern Russia, Nomadic Peoples (2006)
Continuities in social, economic, and religious organisation of the formerly nomadic Dolgan and Nganasan in...
Costly Punishment Across Human Societies, Science (2006)
Recent behavioral experiments aimed at understanding the evolutionary foundations of human cooperation have suggested...
Food Sharing at Meals: Kinship, Reciprocity, and Clustering in the Taimyr Autonomous Okrug, Northern Russia (with Michael Schnegg), Human Nature (2005)
The presence of a kinship link between nuclear families is the strongest predictor of interhousehold...
Property, Hunting, and Food Sharing in the Taimyr Autonomous Region ( North-Central Siberia ), Property Relations: The Halle Focus Group 2000- 2005 (2005)
Tsentral'naia Taimyrskaia Nizmennost' v 1926-27 gg.: Samosoznanie I Sezonnyi Tsikl Peredvizheniia Korennykh Narodov, Turukhanskaia Ekspeditsia Pripoliarnoi Perepisi: Etnografiia i Demografia Malochislennykh Narodov Severe (2005)
Anthropology of Eurasia, Postsocialism and Beyond, Reviews in Anthropology (2004)
The four books reviewed here represent a range of studies and approaches dealing mainly with...
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...
Assigned Territories, Family/Clan/Communal Holdings, and Common-Pool Resources in the Taimyr Autonomous Region, Northern Russia, Human Ecology (2003)
This paper describes an indigenous hunting/fishing/trapping economy in the Taimyr Autonomous Region, northern Russia, and...