David Koester

Publications

Articles - (click highlighted for abstract or full text as indicated)

Community participation in international projects: an analytical perspective from the Russian Far East Emma Wilson & David Koester, in Environment, Development and Sustainability, 10:267-290 (online at): springerlink
2008
The Power of Insult: Ethnographic Publication and Emergent Nationalism in the Sixteenth Century Central Sites, Peripheral Visions: Cultural and Institutional Crossings in the History of Anthropology. History of Anthropology, Vol. 11. R. Handler, ed. pp. 8-40. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
2006
Reputation and Deliberate History in Saga Iceland Language, Culture and the Individual. A Tribute to Paul Friedrich. Catherine O’Neil, Mary Scoggin and Kevin Tuite, eds. Lincom Europa, pp. 128-148
2006
Global Movements and Local Historical Events:  Itelmens of Kamchatka Appeal to the United Nations

American Ethnologist
32(4):642-659
abstract and full text available: anthrosource

2005
Publicity and Native Life in the 21st Century (abstract)

Proceedings of the 19th International Abashiri Symposium
reprints available, please write

2005
Asdiwal revisité : Boas et Lévi-Strauss face à un ‘petit’ mythe du Kamtchatka. (online reprint of below).

ethnographiques.org
Numéro 8 - nov. : http://www.ethnographiques.org/2005/Koester.html [Includes translations into French of three versions of the Asdiwal tale (by Patrick Plattet and Maïté Agopian) and pdfs of the original texts.]

2005

Dérive d'un mythe dans le Pacifique Nord: La Geste d'Asdiwal inversée
Note: There were several serious omissions in the first few pages of the text (printing errors); corrections here. A full version, with corrections online at ethnographiques.org, above.

Les Temps Modernes
(Août-Sep.-Oct.) 628:75-97

2004
Drink, Drank, Drunk: A Social-Political Grammar of Russian Drinking Practices in a Colonial Context

Anthropology of East Europe Review
21(2):41-47
(full text, pdf)

2003
Life in Lost Villages: Home, Land, Memory and the Senses of Loss in Post-Jesup Kamchatka (abstract) Constructing Cultures Then and Now: Celebrating Franz Boas and the Jesup North Pacific Expedition. Laurel Kendall and Igor Krupnik, eds. Washington: Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, pp. 269-283 (introduction)
2003

When the Fat Raven Sings: Mimesis and Environmental Alterity in Kamchatka's Environmentalist Age

People and the Land: Pathways to Reform in Post-Soviet Siberia. Erich Kasten, ed. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, pp. 45-62
(full text available at:
http://www.siberian-studies.org/publications/itelmens.html
)

2002
Imagination and play in children's reflections on cultural life:  Implications for cultural continuity and educational practice (abstract)

Bicultural Education in the North:  Ways of Preserving and Enhancing Indigenous Peoples' Languages and Traditional Knowledge, Erich Kasten, ed. Waxmann, pp. 29-45
full text available at: http://www.siberian-studies.org/publications/PDF/bekoester.pdf

1998
Childhood in National Consciousness and National Consciousness in Childhood (abstract)

Childhood 
4(1):127-144

1997
National Childhood: Expression of Icelandic National Identity in Icelandic Life Writing Imagined Childhoods, Marianne Gullestad, ed.  Scandinavian University Press, pp. 137-157
1996
The Social and Temporal Dimensions in Icelandic Obituarial Discourse (abstract) Journal of Linguistic Anthropology
5(2):157-182
full text available: anthrosource
1995
Gender Ideology and Nationalism in the Culture and Politics of Iceland (abstract)

American Ethnologist
22(3):572-588
full text: JSTOR

1995
Icelandic Confirmation Ritual In Cultural-Historical Perspective (abstract)

Scandinavian Studies
Vol. 67(4):476-515
full text: EbscoHostlink; WilsonSelect in html

1995
Mansi with E. G. Fedorova, Encyclopedia of World Cultures, Vol. VI, pp. 252-255.  Boston:  G. K. Hall
1994
Theory Selection in Particle Physics:  A Quantitative Case Study of the Evolution of the Weak-Electromagnetic Unification Theory (abstract) with D. Sullivan, and D. H. White, Social Studies of Science, Vol. 12, 73-100
full text pdf: JSTOR
1982
Understanding Rapid Theoretical Change in Particle Physics: A Month-by-Month Co-Citation Analysis (abstract) Sullivan, D., D. Koester, D. H. White, and R. Kern
Scientometrics, Vol. 2(4) 309-19
1980
Survival in Particle Physics: An Analysis of Experimentalists' Persistence in Research

Sullivan, D., D. Koester, and D. H. White
Scientia Yugoslavica, Vol. 6(1-4) 191-201

1980