Dmitriy Oparin est anthropologue. Il a soutenu sa thèse en 2015 au Département d’ethnologie de l’Université d’État Lomonossov de Moscou (Russie). De 2011 à 2021, il a été maître de conférences au Département d’ethnologie de l’Université d’État de Moscou. De 2021 à 2022, il a été chercheur senior à l’Institut d’ethnologie et d’anthropologie de l’Académie des sciences de Russie et, de 2015 à 2022, chercheur associé à l’Institute for Social Policy de la Higher School of Economics à Moscou. Actuellement, Dmitriy Oparin est membre du laboratoire de recherche Passages (UMR 5319 – Université Bordeaux Montaigne, Université de Bordeaux, CNRS).

Entre 2011 et 2020, il a mené des enquêtes de terrain en Tchoukotka (Arctique russe oriental), portant sur les interactions entre humains et non-humains, ainsi que sur le secret, le doute et la mémoire familiale dans le contexte des relations avec les ancêtres chez les Yupik asiatiques. Depuis 2013, il mène également des recherches dans le domaine de l’anthropologie de l’islam et de l’anthropologie des migrations. Il a travaillé avec des migrants musulmans originaires d’Asie centrale et du Caucase à Moscou et en Sibérie. De 2014 à 2022, il a également dirigé un projet microhistorique consacré à l’histoire d’un immeuble d’habitation historique au sein du Musée Boulgakov à Moscou.

Monographies

• Bolʹshaia Sadovaia, 10: A History of a Moscow Building Told by Its Residents. [Bolʹshaia Sadovaia, 10. Istoriia moskovskogo doma, rasskazannaia ego zhiteliami]. Moscow: Kuchkovo pole, 2017. In Russian
• Histories of Moscow Buildings Told by Their Residents [Istorii moskovskikh domov, rasskazannye ikh zhiteliami]. Moscow: Eksmo, 2016. In Russian

 

Ouvrages collectifs

• 2026. Dmitriy Oparin, Nadezhda Mamontova (Eds.). The Power of Objects: Critical Studies of Indigenous Heritage in Siberia. Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion. In English

 

Numéros spéciaux de revues dirigés

• 2022. Dmitriy Oparin, Virginie Vaté (Eds.). Special issue of the Canadian journal Études Inuit Studies, Vol. 45 (1-2): Chukotka: Understanding the Past, Contemporary Practices, and Perceptions of the Present. 571 pages. (In English and French)

 

Chapitres d’ouvrage

• Accepted (2025). Soviet-Era Ethnography and Transmission of Ritual Knowledge in Chukotka. In V. Vaté and O. Habeck (Eds.), Anthropology of Siberia in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Halle Studies in Anthropology of Eurasia. (In English)
• Accepted (2026). The Fluid Nature of Ancestral Objects among the Asiatic Yupik: Heritage that is Preserved and Destroyed, Hidden, and Passed On. In The Power of Objects: Critical Studies of Indigenous Heritage in Siberia, co-edited by Dmitrii Oparin and Nadezhda Mamontova. Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion. (In English)
• 2012. Chukotka Autonomous Okrug In The North and Northerners: The Contemporary Situation of Indigenous Small-Numbered Peoples of the North, Siberia, and the Russian Far East, edited by N.I. Novikova and D.A. Funk, 203–221. Moscow: IEA RAN,
• 2012. [“Chukotskii avtonomnyi okrug.” In Sever i severiane. Sovremennoe polozhenie korennykh malochislennykh narodov Severa, Sibiri i Dalʹnego Vostoka Rossii, ed. N.I. Novikova and D.A. Funk, 203–221. Moskva: Izdanie IEA RAN.] (in Russian)

 

Articles

• 2025. The Formation of Religious Authority Among Central Asian Mullahs in Russia: Questions of Duty and Loyalty in a Muslim Migration Context. Problems of Post-Communism, Vol. 72 (2), P. 152-162. in English, 🔗 10.1080/10758216.2023.2254913
• 2024. Yupik Spells and the Yupik Language in the Contemporary Religious Ritual Context. Continuity, Secrecy, and Indeterminacy. Sibirica, Vol. 23 (1): 1–31. in English, 🔗 https://doi.org/10.3167/sib.2024.230101
• 2022. Introduction (co-written with Virginie Vaté). Études Inuit Studies, 45(1-2), 9–35. in English and in French, https://doi.org/10.7202/1090309ar
• 2022. Incantations et langue yupik dans le contexte des rituels religieux contemporains : continuité, secret et indétermination. Études Inuit Studies, 45(1-2), 411–437. In French https://doi.org/10.7202/1090324ar
• 2022. On the Creation of the Multimedia Project “The Memory of a Settlement”, Dedicated to the Genealogy, Oral History, and Photographic Archives of Yupik Families from the Settlement of Novoe Chaplino, Chukotka”. Études Inuit Studies, 45(1-2), 519–529. in English https://doi.org/10.7202/1090329ar
• 2020. Possession and Exorcism in the Muslim Migrant Context. Ethnicities, Vol. 20 (4): 731–751. in English, 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1468796820904202
• 2020. Spiritual Authority and Religious Introspection among Muslim Migrants in Western Siberia. Problems of Post-Communism, Vol. 67 (4-5): 362-374.2020, in English, 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2019.1616566
• 2020. Religious Authority and Ordinary Ethics in Muslim Migration Contexts. [Religioznyi avtoritet i etika povsednevnosti v musulʹmanskoi migratsionnoi srede]. Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research, Vol. 12 (1): 81–105. 2020, in Russian, 🔗 doi.org/10.25285/2078-1938-2020-12-1-81-105
• 2020. Memories of the Miracles and Shamanic Rituals of a Yupik Shaman: Contemporary Atomization of Ritual Life and Post-Soviet Nostalgia [Vospominaniya o chudesakh i kamlaniyakh eskimosskogo shamana: sovremennaya atomizatsiya ritual’noy zhizni i postsovetskaya nostalgiya]. Sibirskiye istoricheskiye isledovaniya [Siberian historical research], No. 2: 229-250. 2020, in Russian, 🔗 DOI: 10.17223/2312461X/28/14
• 2020. Radio and WhatsApp. Public Space among the Eastern Khanty and the Asiatic Yupik. Anthropology & Archeology of Eurasia, 58 (4): 259-270. 2020, in English, 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/10611959.2019.1811564
• 2018. Locals and Immigrants on the Yamal Peninsula. Social Boundaries and Variations in Migratory Experience. Asian Ethnicity, Vol. 19 (2): 251-269. 2018, in English, 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2017.1386543
• 2017. Migration and Contemporary Muslim Space in Moscow. Contextualizing North Caucasian Loud Dhikr and the Religious Practices of Central Asian “Folk Mullas. Contemporary Islam, Vol. 11 (1): 61-80. 2017,  in English, 🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s11562-017-0383-9
• 2015. Contemporary onomastic perceptions of the Asiatic Yupik [Sovremennye onomasticheskie predstavleniia aziatskikh eskimosov]. Sibirskiye istoricheskiye issledovaniya [Siberian Historical Research], No. 4: 30-46. 2015, in Russian, doi:10.17223/2312461X/10/3
• 2012. The Commemoration of the Dead in the Contemporary Asiatic Yupik Ritual Space. Études Inuit Studies, 36 (2): 187-207. 2012, in English https://doi.org/10.7202/1015984ar
• 2010. Adaptation of Contemporary Inuit Society in Nunavut to New Sociocultural Realities. [Adaptatsiia eskimosov Nunavuta k novym sotsiokulʹturnym realiiam]. Ethnographic Review [Etnograficheskoe obozrenie], no. 5: 89–106. (in Russian)