Natalia Chernyaeva

@kunstkamera.ru

Researcher/Laboratory of Museum Technologies
Peter the Grest Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) of the Russian Academy of Sciences



              

https://researchid.co/chernyaeva

EDUCATION

2009, PhD University of Iowa
1989, Candidate of Sciences, Ural State University

RESEARCH INTERESTS

visual anthropology; gender anthropology; Soviet ethnohraphy

6

Scopus Publications

106

Scholar Citations

5

Scholar h-index

3

Scholar i10-index

Scopus Publications

  • FROM ENLIGHTENMENT RHETORIC TO PRAGMATIC EXPLORATION: DEPICTIONS OF ETHNIC TERRITORIES IN A SERIES OF POPULAR SCIENCE BOOKS FOR CHILDREN (1927–1929)
    and Natalia Chernyaeva
    Institute of Russian Literature Pushkinskij Dom RAN
    The article analyzes the portrayal of the newly established Soviet state’s territory in a series of popular children’s books published from 1927 to 1929 under the general subtitle “How They Live and What They Do,” dedicated to the peoples of the USSR and their respective territories. Recommended for general schools’ study, this series of books contributed to geographical imagination of schoolchildren in the 1920s. The paper examines the principles on which the image of the geography of the new Soviet country was built, contrasting it with the representation of the Russian Empire’s territory in similar pre-1917 literature, and analyzing the specifically Soviet unity between the territory and the ethnicity. The model of geographical structure constructed by the books divided into the central, ethnically unmarked part and the national peripheries, a hierarchical construction in which the privilege of seeing and speaking belongs to the subject in a semantic and geographical center. The article explores the complex dialectics of ethnographic and pragmatic perspectives on territories characteristic of the book series: from the sites of ethnic ways of life to spaces of industrial modernity and the economic resource for the state.

  • “How Northern Peoples Live and What They Do”: Representation Strategies of Indigenous Peoples of the North and Siberia in Children’s Literature, 1920s–1930s
    and Natalia A. Chernyaeva
    Tomsk State University
    The period of the 1920s–1930s saw an increase in state-supported propaganda projects on the topic of Soviet nationality policy, including publications for children about people of different nationalities living in the USSR. The educational activities of the Committee of the North under the Presidium of the All-Union Central Executive Committee, the enthusiasm of individual ethnographers whose research focused on the Arctic zone, Siberia, and the Far East and who authored dozens of books for children, contributed to the remarkable popularity of publications about the indigenous peoples of the North in the total volume of publications. The article delves into the recurring images and narratives, both textual and visual, in the representation of the indigenous peoples of the North in publications for children published from 1917 to 1940. It emphasizes the profound influence of the authors’ professional expertise, the shifting state ideology towards indigenous northerners, and the conventions of the popular genre that underpinned these editions. The system of characters and narrative logic in these publications reflected a complex ‘own’ vs. ‘other’ dialectics and the romantic vs. pragmatic views of indigenous peoples. The visual language used by the book’s publishers included three types of images: photographs, authentic drawings by indigenous people, and drawings by professional artists. Each type of image dictated a different lens on indigenous peoples, constructing a view from both outside and inside the culture. The analysis of the books’ print runs and the number of new titles vividly illustrates the transient nature of the enthusiasm for the northern ethnic cultures: by the mid-1930s, the fascination with the peoples was overtaken by an interest in territories. The theme of the northern ethnic groups ceased to be in demand, but the theme of travel, geographical discoveries, and expeditions intensified.


  • Imagining the Soviet East: Narratives of Popular Ethnography in a Series of Pamphlets, The Female Worker of the East, 1927–1929
    and Chernyaeva N.
    Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of the Russian Academy of Sciences (The Kunstkamera)


  • "Upbringing à la Dr. Spock:" child-care manuals and constructing normative motherhood in the Soviet Union, 1954-1970
    Natalia Chernyaeva
    Project Muse
    The article explores the role played by the advice literature on child care in the constructing of normative motherhood during the period following the demise of the Stalin regime, from 1954 to 1970. Several changes in the terms of the societal gender contract under Khrushchev, such as the legalization of abortion on demand, the concomitant drop in birthrates, the housing reform and the modernization of the household sphere, led to the emergence and increased popularity of the child-centered model of family life. The child-care manuals of the time, the most popular of which was Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care, introduced the model of "intensive mothering," which required virtually unlimited investments of labor, time, and emotional resources from mothers. В статье рассматривается роль справочной литературы по уходу за детьми в конструировании нормативного материнства в послесталинский период, с 1954 по 1970 гг. В годы правления Н. Хрущева социальный гендерный контракт претерпел существенные изменения: были легализованы аборты, с чем было отчасти связано падение уровня рождаемости; строительство "хрущевок" сопровождалось модернизацией сферы домашнего хозяйства. Все это привело к росту популярности детоцентричной модели семейной жизни. Среди справочной литературы по уходу за детьми того времени наибольшей популярностью пользовалась книга "Ребенок и уход за ним" доктора Спока. В статье показано, как Спок и советские авторы, каждый в своем контексте, продвигали модель "интенсивного материнства", которая требовала от матерей практически неограниченных инвестиций труда, времени и эмоциональных ресурсов.

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • From enlightenment rhetoric to pragmatic exploration: Depictions of ethnic territories in a series of popular science books for children (1927–1929)
    N Chernyaeva
    Детские чтения 26 (2), 106-128 2024

  • "How Northern peoples live and what they do:" Representation strategies of indigenous peoples of the North and Siberia in children’s literature, 1920s-1930s
    N Chernyaeva
    Siberian Historical Research, 15-46 2024

  • Reusing Ethnographic Photography and Visualizing Ethnicity (the Case of a Photograph from the MAE RAS Collection)
    N Chernyaeva
    Kunstkamera, 155-168 2024

  • Christina Weis (2021). Surrogacy in Russia An Ethnography of Reproductive Labour, Stratification and Migration. Emerald
    NA Chernyaeva
    Changing Societies & Personalities. 2023. Vol. 7. Iss. 2 7 (2), 173-177 2023

  • Imagining the Soviet East: : Narratives of Popular Ethnography in a Series of Pamphlets, The Female Worker of the East, 1927-1929
    N Chernyaeva
    Etnografia, 149-178 2022

  • A Modern History of Russian Childhood: From the Late Imperial Period to the Collapse of the Soviet Union
    N Chernyaeva
    AB IMPERIO-STUDIES OF NEW IMPERIAL HISTORY AND NATIONALISM IN THE POST 2021

  • Nineteenth century childhoods in interdisciplinary and international perspectives
    MAB Ellis, JE Baxter
    Oxbow books 2018

  • Laying the foundation of “modern childhood” in Russia: the “protection of motherhood and infancy” movement, 1890–1917
    N Chernyaeva
    Nineteenth Century Childhoods in Interdisciplinary and International 2018

  • Право смотреть и право быть видимым: конфликты визуального
    NA Chernyaeva, YA Patsiukova
    Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 3, Общественные науки 2016

  • От импринтинга к естественному родительству: Конрад Лоренц и его влияние на идеологии материнства в ХХ в.
    НБ Мельник, НА Черняева
    Известия Уральского федерального университета. Сер. 3, Общественные науки 2015

  • " Upbringing la Dr. Spock:" Child-Care Manuals and Constructing Normative Motherhood in the Soviet Union, 1954-1970
    N Chernyaeva
    Ab Imperio 2013 (2), 223-251 2013

  • Historical approach to public hygiene: reflecting on the international seminar
    N Chernyaeva
    Zhurnal Issledovanii Sotsialnoi Politiki= The Journal of Social Policy 2012

  • From Disciplined to Spontaneous Child: The Evolving Models of Childrearing in Soviet Parenting Manuals during Post-Stalinism
    N Chernyaeva
    Negotiating Childhoods, 79-86 2010

  • Childcare manuals and construction of motherhood in Russia, 1890-1990
    N Chernyaeva
    University of Iowa 2009

  • Культурная география и проблематика места.(Обзор новой литературы)
    Н Черняева
    Известия Уральского государственного университета. 2005.№ 35 2005

  • К истории осмысления насилия против
    СЛ Кропотов, НА Черняева
    Семья--между насилием и толерантностью: коллективная монография 2005

  • Производство матерей в Советской России: учебники по уходу за детьми эпохи индустриализации
    Н Черняева
    Гендерные исследования 12, 120-138 2004

  • Laying the foundation of “modern childhood” in Russia: the “protection of motherhood and infancy” movement, 1890–19171
    N Chernyaeva
    Nineteenth Century Childhoods in Interdisciplinary and International

  • К ВОПРОСУ О ЛОКАЛЬНЫХ ИСТОРИЯХ
    Н Черняева

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Производство матерей в Советской России: учебники по уходу за детьми эпохи индустриализации
    Н Черняева
    Гендерные исследования 12, 120-138 2004
    Citations: 35

  • Культурная география и проблематика места.(Обзор новой литературы)
    Н Черняева
    Известия Уральского государственного университета. 2005.№ 35 2005
    Citations: 33

  • Nineteenth century childhoods in interdisciplinary and international perspectives
    MAB Ellis, JE Baxter
    Oxbow books 2018
    Citations: 12

  • " Upbringing la Dr. Spock:" Child-Care Manuals and Constructing Normative Motherhood in the Soviet Union, 1954-1970
    N Chernyaeva
    Ab Imperio 2013 (2), 223-251 2013
    Citations: 8

  • Childcare manuals and construction of motherhood in Russia, 1890-1990
    N Chernyaeva
    University of Iowa 2009
    Citations: 7

  • Право смотреть и право быть видимым: конфликты визуального
    NA Chernyaeva, YA Patsiukova
    Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 3, Общественные науки 2016
    Citations: 4

  • От импринтинга к естественному родительству: Конрад Лоренц и его влияние на идеологии материнства в ХХ в.
    НБ Мельник, НА Черняева
    Известия Уральского федерального университета. Сер. 3, Общественные науки 2015
    Citations: 4

  • Imagining the Soviet East: : Narratives of Popular Ethnography in a Series of Pamphlets, The Female Worker of the East, 1927-1929
    N Chernyaeva
    Etnografia, 149-178 2022
    Citations: 2

  • From Disciplined to Spontaneous Child: The Evolving Models of Childrearing in Soviet Parenting Manuals during Post-Stalinism
    N Chernyaeva
    Negotiating Childhoods, 79-86 2010
    Citations: 1