Bruce Grant

Former Short-Term Grant

Professional Affiliation

Associate Professor of Anthropology, New York University

Wilson Center Project

Sakhalin Island Nivkhi and the Politics of Indigenous Pasts

Project Summary

cultural history of a Siberian indigenour people across the 20th century, the Nivkhi How do Nivkhi look back on the Soviet period? What were the rationales proposed for the supplanting of Nivkh cultural forms with pan-Soviet ones, and what were the mechanisms by which Soviet hegemony was implemented and legitimated?