Prof. Dr. Dmitriy A. Funk

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsSocial and Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology,Regional Studies
KeywordsEpic studies, Shamanism, Burkhanism (Buddhism), Applied anthropology, Ethnic and (other) cultural/social identities, Social transformations among indigenous peoples

Current contact address

CountryRussian Federation
CityMoscow
InstitutionMoscow State Linguistics University
InstituteLaboratory for Sociocultural Anthropology
Homepagehttps://eo.iea.ras.ru/en/staff/21490/

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Ulla JohansenInstitut für Völkerkunde, Universität zu Köln, Köln
Prof. Dr. Karl ReichlInstitut für Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Keltologie, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn
Prof. Dr. Klaus SagasterAbteilung für Mongolistik und Tibetstudien, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn
Prof. Dr. Joachim Otto HabeckInstitut für Ethnologie, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg
Prof. Dr. Julian RentzschInstitut für Slavistik, Turkologie und zirkumbaltische Studien, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz
Start of initial sponsorship01/09/2007

Programme(s)

2006Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2008Dmitry A. Funk: (review) Ye.N. Kuz’mina. Index of loci communes of the hero epics of Siberian people (Altai, Buriats, Tuvinians, Khakass, Shors, Yakuts). Experimental edition / Ed. N.A. Elekseev. Novosibirsk, 2005. - 1382 p.. In: Etnograficheskoye obozreniye (Ethnographic review), 2008, 173-177
2008Dmitry A. Funk: Shorskie epicheskie skazaniia o bogatyre Khan-Mergene (Shor epic tales about hero called Khan-Mergen). In: Irina V. Shentsova, Denis M. Tokmashev, Istoriko-kulturnoe vzaimodejstvie narodov Sibiri (Historical and cultural interaction of Siberian peoples). Kuzbasskaia gosudarstvennaia pedagogisheskaia akademiia, 2008. 300-301
2008Karl Reichl: Turkic epos: traditions, forms, poetic structure / Translated from English by Viktoria Treister under edition of Dmitry Funk. Vostochnaya literatura, 2008
2008Dmitry A. Funk: Unpublished Enets tales as recorded by B.O. Dolgikh. In: Sergei Yu. Neklyudov Myth, symbol, ritual. Peoples of Siberia. Russian State Univ. for Humanitarian Studies, 2008. 174-192