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Elena A. Okladnikova

Scientific degree: Doctor of Science (History)

Academic rank: Professor

Country: Russia

City: Saint-Petersburg

Organization: Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia

Position: Professor, Department of Sociology and Religious Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences

Member of the St. Petersburg Sociological Association. Member of the Sociological Society named after M.M. Kovalevsky. Organizer of the international conference “Homo Eurasicus” (since 2008).

Major works:

The main scientific works are devoted to the original development of ethnocultural, ethno-social, ethnohistorical aspects of the development of traditional cultures of the indigenous population of North America and the aborigines of Siberia; studying the mechanisms of the formation of early forms of archaic religious representations, forms of thinking, the processes of the formation of artistic traditions on the materials of rock art of monuments of Siberia and North America. Studies in the field of ethnoaxiology and models of indigenous culture in North America. Principal new approaches to the interpretation of a number of main plots of rock art of Siberia and North America were developed. She is an author of more than 200 scientific publications, of which 12 individual and 15 collective monographs.