Yury Snigirev

Current position:

Student Assistant

Address:

Institute for Finno-Ugric Studies
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Ludwigstr. 31
80539 Munich
Germany
email: jurijsnigirjov@yandex.ru

Education:

Since 2014: Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (Institut of Ethnology); M.A. studies
2013 – 2014: Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich; Exchange semester at the Institute of Finno-Ugric Studies
2012 – 2014: Novosibirsk State University, Humanitarian department; M.A. in Social and Cultural Anthropology
2007 – 2012: Vyatka State University of Humanities, Department of History; Diploma in History

Expeditions and participation in research projects:

March 2014 – May 2014: Research scholarship from the Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research (OeAD-GmbH) at the Section of Finno-Ugric Studies of the Department of European and Comparative Language and Literature Studies. Project: „Schamanism of the northern groups of Ob-Ugric people: genesis and contemporary state“
June 2013: Anthropological field research in the region of the northern Khanty and Mansi (rivers Severnaya Sosva, Lyapin, Ob) organized by Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
November 2012 – May 2013: Participation in the joint research project of Institute of philology of the Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the centre for Arctic research (Salekhard) „Creation of the dialect atlas of Ural languages in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug“
March 2012 – April 2012: Research scholarship at the Institute for Folklore of Germans in the easterrn Europe (Institut für Volkskunde der Deutschen des östlichen Europa), Freiburg, within the framework of scholarship program for support of young academics in the state Baden-Württemberg
August 2011 – September 2011: Archaeological dig of the late Stone Age period burial ground Erwitte-Schmerlecke (North Rhine-Westphalia) organized by Section of prehistoric archaeology (Abteilung für Ur- und Frühgeschichtliche Archäologie) of University of Münster
June – July 2008, June – July 2009, July 2010, June – July 2011, June – July 2012: Anthropological field researches in Kirov Oblast (the regions of Udmurt, Mari and Tatar people) organized by Vyatka State University of Humanities