Znamenski, Andrei A. 1960-

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Znamenski, Andrei A. 1960-

PERSONAL: Born 1960.

CAREER: Alabama State University, Montgomery, began as assistant professor, became associate professor of history. Library of Congress, resident scholar at John W. Kluge Center.

WRITINGS

Shamanism and Christianity: Native Encounters with Russian Orthodox Missions in Siberia and Alaska, 1820-1917, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 1999.

Shamanism in Siberia: Russian Records of Indigenous Spirituality, Kluwer Academic Publishers (Boston, MA), 2003.

(Translator and author of introduction) Through Orthodox Eyes: Russian Missionary Narratives of Travels to the Denaína and Ahtna, 1850s-1930s, University of Alaska Press (Fairbanks, AK), 2003.

(Editor) Shamanism: Critical Concepts in Sociology, three volumes, Routledge (New York, NY), 2004.

The Beauty of the Primitive: Shamanism and Western Imagination, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 2007.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES

BOOKS

PERIODICALS

American Historical Review, December, 2001, Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer, review of Shamanism and Christianity: Native Encounters with Russian Orthodox Missions in Siberia and Alaska, 1820-1917, p. 1759.

Pacific Northwest Quarterly, fall, 2001, Gunther Barth, review of Shamanism and Christianity, p. 205.

Reference & Research Book News, August, 2003, review of Through Orthodox Eyes: Russian Missionary Narratives of Travels to the Denaína and Ahtna, 1850s-1930s, p. 57

Russian Review, April, 2001, Eva-Maria Stolberg, review of Shamanism and Christianity, p. 287.

Slavic Review, winter, 2000, John J. Stephan, review of Shamanism and Christianity, p. 907.

ONLINE

Shaman’s Drum Journal Online, shamansdrum.org/ (February 4, 2007), Timothy White, review of Shamanism in Siberia: Russian Records of Indigenous Spirituality.*