Books by Elena Glavatskaya
Studies in Native Religion 2, 2021
Ivan Stepanovich Sopochin lived his whole life following the traditional customs of his people, o... more Ivan Stepanovich Sopochin lived his whole life following the traditional customs of his people, one of the branches of the
Eastern Khanty, on a tributary of the Ob′, the Woki-rap-yagun (‘Fox-cliff river’), near Surgut. He remained a monolingual
speaker of his dialect, and was a guardian of spiritual traditions. In his youth he was arrested for the practice of
shamanism – though he called himself not a shaman, but a ‘man who sees’, who has visions. In the last years of his life
(he died in 1993), he attracted many visits from researchers into shamanism and traditional culture. The present volume
presents the research of some of the scholars who carried out field work or have studied Sopochin’s spiritual traditions,
and marks a significant contribution to English-language research into Eastern Khanty shamanism and traditional culture.
Предлагаемая монография содержит документы по истории организации и проведения Приполярной переп... more Предлагаемая монография содержит документы по истории организации и проведения Приполярной переписи на Ямале в 1926-1927 г. и первичные материалы, собранные участниками Уральской экспедиции, представляющие собой уникальный комплекс этноисторических документов, до сих пор не введенных в научный оборот. Сотрудники экспедиции, многие из которых были профессиональными этнографами, подробно описали «туземные» хозяйства Обдорского края – территории современного ЯНАО, их состав, экономику и быт, детали материальной культуры и духовной жизни в период, когда социалистические преобразования еще не коснулись народов Севера.
Издание рассчитано на широкий круг специалистов, занимающихся исследованием северных территорий, и самое главное - представителей народов Севера – хантов, ненцев и зырян, чьи предки приняли участие в создании этого уникального комплекса документов, который, как мы надеемся, теперь станет доступным и для них.
Khanty religious traditions in the 17th-20th centuries
This book is a catalogue of photo documents from the Tobol’sk Historical-Architectural Museum Res... more This book is a catalogue of photo documents from the Tobol’sk Historical-Architectural Museum Resort. They were taken by Grigorii M. Dmitriev-Sadovnikov in 1912 in the basin of Vakh River, tributary to Ob’ river, the territory inhabited by the Khanty – indigenous people of the Western Siberia. It contains both the photos, their detailed description as well as information about how an item depicted was used and technology for its production. Many of these photo documents are published for the first time.
The book is intended for scholars, indigenous people of North-Western Siberia and the general public interested in the history and culture of the region
Papers by Elena Glavatskaya
Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe
Izvestiâ Uralʹskogo federalʹnogo universiteta. Seriâ 2. Gumanitarnye nauki/Izvestiâ Uralʹskogo federalʹnogo universiteta. Seriâ 2, Gumanitarnye nauki, 2023
Quaestio Rossica
This article analyses the historiography of using late Imperial Russian city censuses. The past t... more This article analyses the historiography of using late Imperial Russian city censuses. The past three decades of historical urban studies in Russia have made such an urban census data study necessary. The city census materials are a more reliable source than the official statistics comparable with national census data. The authors analyse publications related to the urban census history and the implied original methodological solutions for using city census data. The article reconstructs the chronology of historiographic trends, highlighting the regional research traditions. The classification of publications according to thematic and methodological characteristics makes it possible to determine the main directions of the development of source studies. The authors argue that the disciplinary focus of specific studies with reference to census results gradually shifted from purely demographic to historical. The research proves that the country’s history conditioned the development of ...
Historical Life Course Studies
The Ural Population Project (URAPP) is built from individual level data transcriptions of 19th- t... more The Ural Population Project (URAPP) is built from individual level data transcriptions of 19th- to early 20th-century parish records and mid-19th-century census-like tax revisions manuscripts. This article discusses the source material, the contents, the history of creation and the strategy of the URAPP database and the outcome of the main research topics so far, including historical demography, Jewish studies, indigenous studies and studies of religious minorities in the Urals and Siberia. Our studies of the ethno-religious cultural landscape of the Urals and northwestern Siberia as well as participation in population history projects was more vital backgrounds than the traditional focus on aggregates. The over 65,000 vital events transcribed from parish records of Russian Orthodox Churches and minority religions in and around Ekaterinburg have been the basis for studies of mortality, nuptiality, religion and other characteristics. We found that the Jewish population kept their tra...
Transylvanian Review, Mar 1, 2019
The article focuses on the marriage behavior of the Old Believers—conservative dissenters who spl... more The article focuses on the marriage behavior of the Old Believers—conservative dissenters who split from the Russian Orthodox Church in the seventeenth century. Persecuted by the state, they migrated to the country’s fringe areas, including the Urals. Far away from the authorities, they maintained their pre-reform traditions and way of life. The biggest religious minority among ethnic Russians, they gained legal status and started to register vital events in church books after the Religious Freedom Manifesto was introduced in 1905. We present here first results from the com-puterized analyses of these records, including marriage frequency, age at first marriage with special attention to gender, social status and migration as determinants of marriage timing. We also ad-dress the issue of remarriage and conversion in connection with marriage. We argue that this was a sign of social elevation and of abandoning religious endogamy, which in its turn could be a sign of modernization of the institute of marriage in early twentieth century Russia.
Izvestia of the Ural federal university. Series 2. Humanities and Arts, 2021
Traditionally, studies of historical mortality have focused on the national, regional, or local l... more Traditionally, studies of historical mortality have focused on the national, regional, or local levels. Currently, the creation of individual level databases has made it possible to study mortality at the individual and family levels, also following people over generations. However, this research rarely considered non-family relations; at the same time, rapid urbanisation during the late nineteenth century severed many family ties and hindered the transmission of traditional models for demographic behaviour. Thus, the role of non-family factors increased, the main of which was the church parish, which since the end of the nineteenth century gradually transformed into a neighborhood community — the prototype of the urban microdistrict. This research aims to study the mortality of the adult population of Ekaterinburg during the decades around 1900, differentiating between the parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church. The sources consist of official statistics and the Ural Population Pr...
Исследование выполнено за счет гранта Российского научного фонда РНФ, грант 16-18-10105 «Этно-рел... more Исследование выполнено за счет гранта Российского научного фонда РНФ, грант 16-18-10105 «Этно-религиозная и демографическая динамика в горной Евразии в конце XIX — начале XX вв. на примере Урала и Скандинавии».
The article studies four officially recognized non-Orthodox communities in the late 19th century ... more The article studies four officially recognized non-Orthodox communities in the late 19th century Yekaterinburg – Lutherans, Catholics, Jews and Muslims, who, according to the 1897 All-Russian census, were the main religious minorities in Russian Empire. On the basis of census data and local statistics, the authors analyze the size and dynamics of the city’s ethno-religious communities, as well as ethnic and occupational composition and literacy. The authors also identified and located main markers of their presence in the city’s landscape and highlighted religious minorities’ contribution to the economic and social development of the city, the professional structure and the degree incorporation of their leaders into the city elite. They argue that the late 19th century Yekaterinburg presented a rather successful model of the coexistence of various ethno-religious communities with the Russian Orthodox population, which dominated both numerically and legally. Yekaterinburg, which was ...
Uralʹskij istoričeskij vestnik, 2024
Quaestio Rossica
This article analyses sex ratios in late nineteenth – to early twentieth-century Russia focusing ... more This article analyses sex ratios in late nineteenth – to early twentieth-century Russia focusing on the easternmost frontier of its European part – Perm Province with a population of about 3 million. High sex ratio at birth, in infancy, and childhood has been widely used to assess gender discriminatory practices in several countries, including some European ones. Russia is usually depicted as highly patriarchal with a low social status of women, always subordinated to their fathers and husbands. However, little has been done to study sex ratios. This article presents the first long-term research on sex ratio which relies on county (uyezd)-level information from the 1897 Russian census and the first Soviet 1926 census as well as the household censuses of 1887, 1900, and 1912. The authors also used local statistics based on the parish records with vital events. Additionally, they computed the sex ratios in different groups from birth to age at marriage, their dynamics over almost 40 y...
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Books by Elena Glavatskaya
Eastern Khanty, on a tributary of the Ob′, the Woki-rap-yagun (‘Fox-cliff river’), near Surgut. He remained a monolingual
speaker of his dialect, and was a guardian of spiritual traditions. In his youth he was arrested for the practice of
shamanism – though he called himself not a shaman, but a ‘man who sees’, who has visions. In the last years of his life
(he died in 1993), he attracted many visits from researchers into shamanism and traditional culture. The present volume
presents the research of some of the scholars who carried out field work or have studied Sopochin’s spiritual traditions,
and marks a significant contribution to English-language research into Eastern Khanty shamanism and traditional culture.
Издание рассчитано на широкий круг специалистов, занимающихся исследованием северных территорий, и самое главное - представителей народов Севера – хантов, ненцев и зырян, чьи предки приняли участие в создании этого уникального комплекса документов, который, как мы надеемся, теперь станет доступным и для них.
The book is intended for scholars, indigenous people of North-Western Siberia and the general public interested in the history and culture of the region
Papers by Elena Glavatskaya
Eastern Khanty, on a tributary of the Ob′, the Woki-rap-yagun (‘Fox-cliff river’), near Surgut. He remained a monolingual
speaker of his dialect, and was a guardian of spiritual traditions. In his youth he was arrested for the practice of
shamanism – though he called himself not a shaman, but a ‘man who sees’, who has visions. In the last years of his life
(he died in 1993), he attracted many visits from researchers into shamanism and traditional culture. The present volume
presents the research of some of the scholars who carried out field work or have studied Sopochin’s spiritual traditions,
and marks a significant contribution to English-language research into Eastern Khanty shamanism and traditional culture.
Издание рассчитано на широкий круг специалистов, занимающихся исследованием северных территорий, и самое главное - представителей народов Севера – хантов, ненцев и зырян, чьи предки приняли участие в создании этого уникального комплекса документов, который, как мы надеемся, теперь станет доступным и для них.
The book is intended for scholars, indigenous people of North-Western Siberia and the general public interested in the history and culture of the region