Cosmological Visionaries: Shamans, Scientists, and Climate Change at the Ethnic Borderlands of China and Russia

Project Information

COSMOVIS

Grant agreement ID: 856543

DOI 10.3030/856543

EC signature date 29 April 2020

Start date 1 September 2020

End date 31 August 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 6 458 201,00

EU contribution € 6 458 201,00

Coordinated by

KING'S COLLEGE LONDON
United Kingdom

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (6)

'It's Scientific!': Play, Parody and the Para-Ethnographic in Southwest China

Author(s): Katherine Swancutt
Published in: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Issue Volume 27, Issue 3, 2021, Page(s) 559-578, ISSN 1467-9655
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9655.13549

Ground Bias: A Driver for Skepticisms about Space Exploration

Author(s): Tony Milligan
Published in: Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, Issue 2296987X, 2022, ISSN 2296-987X
Publisher: Frontiers
DOI: 10.3389/fspas.2022.1027251

Animal Telos and Preference Adaptation

Author(s): Tony Milligan
Published in: Journal of Applied Animal Ethics Research, 2022, Page(s) 1-18, ISSN 2588-9567
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/25889567-20220406

SuperTCM: A Biocultural Database Combining Biological Pathways and Historical Linguistic Data of Chinese Materia Medica for Drug Development

Author(s): Qiaofeng Chen, Lena Springer, Björn Oliver Gohlke, Andrean Goede, Mathias Dunkel, Renata Abel, Kathleen Gallo, Saskia Preissner, Andreas Eckert, Lakshmi Seshadri, Robert Preissner
Published in: Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, Issue Volume 144, 2021, ISSN 0753-3322
Publisher: Elsevier Masson
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopha.2021.112315

The Chicken and the Egg: Cracking the Ontology of Divination in Southwest China

Author(s): Katherine Swancutt
Published in: Social Analysis, Issue Volume 65, Issue 2, 2021, Page(s) 19-40, ISSN 1558-5727
Publisher: Berghahn
DOI: 10.3167/sa.2021.650202

From the Sky to the Ground: Indigenous Peoples in an Age of Space Expansion

Author(s): Tony Milligan
Published in: Space Policy, Issue 02659646, 2022, ISSN 0265-9646
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.spacepol.2022.101520

Book chapters (5)

Beyond Curses: In the Midst of Turbulent Kyzyl

Author(s): Mally Stelmaszyk
Published in: Shamanism in Siberia: Sound and Turbulence in Cursing Practices in Tuva, 2022, Page(s) 130-147, ISBN 9781032156996
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.4324/9781003245391-9

‘“Tears of the Earth”: Human-Permafrost Entanglements and Science-Indigenous Knowledge Encounters in Northeast Siberia’

Author(s): Olga Ulturgasheva
Published in: Risky Futures: Climate, Geopolitics and Local Realities in the Uncertain Circumpolar North, 2022, Page(s) 58-88, ISBN 978-1-80073-593-4
Publisher: Berghahn
DOI: 10.3167/9781800735934

‘Encounters with Linnaeus? Modernisation of Pharmacopoeia through Bernard Read and Zhao Yuhuang up to the Present’

Author(s): Lena Springer
Published in: Routledge Handbook of Chinese Medicine, 2022, Page(s) 669-686, ISBN 9780203740262
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.4324/9780203740262

After the Permafrost: A Provisional Outline

Author(s): Tony Milligan
Published in: Geo-societal Narratives: Contextualising Geosciences, 2021, Page(s) 55-66, ISBN 978-3-030-79028-8
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-79028-8_4

The Threshold of the Cosmos: Priestly Scriptures and the Shamanic Wilderness in Southwest China

Author(s): Katherine Swancutt
Published in: The Dynamic Cosmos: Movement, Paradox, and Experimentation in the Anthropology of Spirit Possession, 2022, Page(s) 119-131, ISBN 9781350299337
Publisher: Bloomsbury
DOI: 10.5040/9781350299351.ch-8