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While still at school, he became interested in archeology and pre-Hispanic cultures of Peru. Since Peruvian archeology was not available to Soviet scientists, the university was engaged in the archeology of South Turkmenistan, and after the university he joined the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, where he defended his dissertation on one of the pre-Columbian cultures of the Central Andes. For 30 years he has collected a database of world folklore and mythology. Approaching this material approximately as archaeological, he became a unique specialist in comparative mythology: by studying the distribution of folklore motifs in different areas around the world and comparing these data with data from archeology, genetics and linguistics, Yuri Berezkin reconstructs the early history of mankind. He is the author of many books, including “Myths Populate America: the Areal Distribution of Folklore Motives and Early Migrations to the New World” (2007), “From the Old to the New World: Myths of the World” (2009), “Inca Empire” (2014).

Disciplines taught

• Classics of domestic and foreign ethnology and socio-cultural anthropology
• Background of civilizations
• Non-Classical Mythologies
• Political anthropology

Head of the Department of America, MAE RAS, Professor, Department of Anthropology, EUSP.

SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS AND AREAS OF RESEARCH

Ancient migrations and cultural ties, the settlement of America, comparative mythology, early complex societies

BIOGRAPHY

In 1970, he graduated from the History Department of Leningrad (Petersburg) University with a degree in historian-archaeologist. From university years he could not decide what was more interesting: the iconography of pre-Hispanic cultures of Peru or the archeology of the Ancient East, specifically the south of Turkmenistan. After university, he joined the army for two years, in 1973 he was admitted to the Department of America at the MAE (Kunstkamera), where he worked until 1986. In 1987-2002 he joined the Institute of Archeology (since 1990 the Institute of the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences), and in 2003 he returned to Kunstkamera . At the European University since 1996. In 1977 he defended his Ph.D. in iconography of Mochic culture, in 1990 - his doctorate in comparing the data on the distribution of mythological motifs in South America with archaeological materials on the settlement of the continent and the spread of agriculture. In total, from 1966 to 1994 he spent 60 months in the field, which is not enough for an archaeologist. However, the practice of excavating settlements of the Neolithic period - the Middle Bronze of Turkmenistan (VI-III millennium BC), combined with acquaintance with books from the archeology of the Central Andes, generated interest in the typology of early complex societies. Attempts to find an explanation for the scenes on the murals of the Mochik culture (I-VII centuries AD, Peru) made it possible to systematize the data on folklore and mythology of South America. After an internship in the United States in 1992-1993 and the advent of a computer, compiling a database on the folklore of America and then the whole world came to the fore, although the early complex societies were not completely abandoned. A special area of \u200b\u200binterest is cosmony. The main topics of work in recent years are the settlement of the New World (analysis of the areal distribution of folklore motifs in America and Siberia) and the history of the formation of the plot-motive fund of African and Eurasian traditions. Work at the EU helped to understand the logic of changing directions in anthropological and archaeological research and to determine one’s own position (neo-evolutionist). The author of more than 250 scientific publications.

PUBLICATIONS

Monographs:

Featured Articles:

• An Identification Of Anthropomorphic Mythological Personages In Moche Representations // Nawpa Pacha, (Berkeley) 18, 1981: 1-26.
• Mythology of the Indians of Latin America and the oldest folk provinces // Folklore and historical ethnography. M: Science., 1983.P. 191-220.
• "City of Masters" on the ancient eastern periphery. The layout of the settlement and the social structure of Altyn-depe in the 3rd millennium BC // Bulletin of Ancient History, 3, 1994: 14-27.
• Models of a medium-sized society: America and the ancient Near East // Alternative paths to early statehood. Vladivostok: Dalnauka., 1995.S. 94-104
• Chiefdoms and akephalic complex societies: data from archeology and ethnographic parallels // Early forms of political organization. M .: Oriental studies, 1995.S. 39-49
• The tree of plenty: myth and its components // American Indians: new discoveries and interpretations. M .: Nauka, 1996.S. 152-166.
• America and the Middle East: forms of sociopolitical organization in the pre-state era // Bulletin of Ancient History 2, 1997: 3-24.
• (with Solovieva N.F.) Ceremonial architectural complexes of Ilgynly-depe // Archaeological News 5, 1998: 86-123.
• Woman in Native American Mythology: Alien or Own? // Astarta. Issue 2. Woman in the power structures of archaic and traditional societies. St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg State University, 1999.S. 34-57.
• V.M. Masson and social anthropology of the second half of the twentieth century // Interaction of cultures and civilizations. In honor of the anniversary of V.M. Masson. St. Petersburg: IIMK RAS, 2000.P. 32-45.
•   // Studia Ethnologica. Proceedings of the Faculty of Ethnology. SPb., 2004
• The quarter center of the Bronze Age in Altyn-depe // Features of the production of the Altyn-depe settlement in the era of the paleometal / Materials of the South Turkmenistan Archaeological Integrated Expedition. Issue 5. St. Petersburg: IIMK RAS, 2001. P. 40-59
• South Siberian-North American Relations in the Field of Mythology // Archeology, Ethnography and Anthropology of Eurasia 2 (14), 2003: 94-105
• Trickster Rabbit: Mayan iconography and folklore of the North American Southeast Indians // Ancient civilizations of the Old and New Worlds: M .: Russian State Humanitarian University, 2003. P. 53-59.
•   // Proceedings of the faculty of ethnology. Vol. 1 . SPb., 2001. S. 98-165.
• Evaluation of the Antiquity of Eurasian-American Relations in the Field of Mythology // Archeology, Ethnography and Anthropology of Eurasia 1 (21), 2005: 146-151
• Space hunting: variants of the Siberian-North American myth // Archeology, Ethnography and Anthropology of Eurasia 2 (22), 2005: 141-150
•   // Anthropological forum 2, 2005: 174-211.
•   // Forum for Anthropology and Culture 2, 2005: 130-170.
• Some trends in the global distribution of complexes of folklore and mythological motifs // Ad hominem. In memory of Nikolai Girenko. St. Petersburg: MAE RAS, 2005.S. 131-156.
• Continental Eurasian And Pacific Links In American Mythologies And Their Possible Time-Depth // Latin American Indian Literatures Journal 21 (2), 2005: 99-115
• Folklore-mythological parallels between Western Siberia, northeast Asia and Amur Region - Primorye (to reconstruct the early state of Siberian mythology) // Archeology, Ethnography and Anthropology of Eurasia. 2006. No. 3 (27). S. 112-122
• Woman-bird in Chaco and California: relict forms of social organization in the mirror of folklore // Power in Aboriginal America. Problems of Indianism. M.,: Nauka, 2006.S. 383-409.
• Eurasia - America: Dualistic Cosmogonies // Power in Aboriginal America. Problems of Indianism. M.,: Nauka, 2006.S. 353-382.
• Luring and catching Batrads. Siberian-North American parallels to the motive of the Nart epic and the genesis of heroic images // Power in Aboriginal America. Problems of Indianism. M .: Nauka, 2006.S. 410-422.
• (with Korotayev A., A. Kozmin, & A. Arkhipova) Return Of The White Raven: Postdiluvial Reconnaissance Motif A2234.1.1 Reconsidered // Journal of American Folklore 119 (472), 2006: 203-235.
• The origin of death is an ancient myth // Ethnographic Review 1, 2007. P. 70-89.
• Cosmogonic plots "diver out of the earth" and "exit of people from the earth" (on the heterogeneous origin of the American Indians) // Archeology, Ethnography and Anthropology of Eurasia. 2007. No. 4 (32). S. 110-123
• Dwarfs And Cranes. Baltic Finnish Mythologies In Eurasian And American Perspective (70 Years After Yriö Toivonen) // Folklore (Tartu), 36, 2007: 75-96.
• African Old Testament and Asian "Popular Christianity"? // Myth, symbol, ritual. The peoples of Siberia. M .: RGGU, 2008.S. 222-257.
• Siberian-Sami relations in the field of mythology against the backdrop of the plot of ATU 480 // Natales grate numeras? Collection of articles on the 60th anniversary of G.A. Levinton. St. Petersburg: EUSP Publishing House, 2008.S. 119-143.
• Alcor, bowler and dog: intercontinental parallels and epochal changes in the picture of the starry sky // "Bricks": cultural anthropology and folklore today. Collection in honor of the 65th anniversary of S.Yu. Neklyudova. M .: RGGU, 2008.S. 11-23.
• Out Of Africa And Further Along The Coast (African - South Asian - Australian Mythological Parallels) // Cosmos: The Journal of Traditional Cosmology Society (Edinburgh) 23 (1), 2009: 3-28.
• Folklore and mythology of Africa in the light of ideas about the ancestral home of man // Bulletin of the Russian State Humanitarian University 9, 2009: 18-43.
• Why are people mortal? World Mythology And The "Out-Of-Africa" \u200b\u200bScenario // Ancient Human Migrations. A Multidisciplinary Approach. Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, 2009. R. 242-264.
• Pleiades-openings, the Milky Way as a Road of Birds, a girl on the moon: Northern Eurasian ethnocultural relations in the mirror of cosmony // Archeology, Ethnography and Anthropology of Eurasia 4 (44), 2009.P. 100-113.
• Selecting Separate Episodes Of The Peopling Of The New World: Beringian – Subarctic – Eastern North American Folklore Links // Anthropological Papers of the University of Alaska 5 (1-2), 2010: 257-276.
• Sky-Maiden And World Mythology. The Dispersal Of Modern Man And The Areal Patterns Of Folklore-Mythological Motifs // L "Impensé symbolique. IRIS. Les Cahiers du GER: Éditions litteraires et linguistique de l" Universite de Grenoble (ELLUG) 31, 2010: 27-39.
• Mythological explanations of human mortality and the problem of origin on-den // From Being to Other Being. Folklore and funeral ritual in the traditional cultures of Siberia and America. St. Petersburg, 2010: MAE RAS. S. 7-50.
• Kodiak in the cultural space of the North Pacific // Eskimos alutiik. Kunstkamera collection catalog. St. Petersburg: Nauka, 2010.S. 421-450.
• From the mythology of Algonquins and Atapasca. Toward a Reconstruction of the Ethnocultural History of North America // Discovery of America continues. Vol. 4. St. Petersburg: MAE RAS, 2010. S. 6-96.
• Tricksters Trot To America. Areal Distribution Of Folklore Motifs // Folklore (Tartu) 46, 2010: 125-142.
• Spoiled Creation: European Folk Beliefs And Asian Mythologies // Aramazd: Armenian Journal of Near Eastern Studies IV (2), 2010: 7-35.
• Two motifs in the mythologies of Western Melanesia and the origin of Lapita // Australia, Oceania and Indonesia in the space of time and history (Maklaevsky collection 3). St. Petersburg: MAE RAS, 2010.S. 58-68.
• From Africa and Back: Some Areal Patterns Of Mythological Motifs // Mother Tongue, Journal of the Association for the Study of Language In Prehistory 15, 2010: 1-67.
• Out-of-Africa Hypothesis And Areal Patterns Of Cosmological Motifs // Acta Americana 17 (1), 2011: 5-22.
• On the structure of history // Leadership in archaic: conditions and forms of manifestation. St. Petersburg: MAE RAS, 2011.S. 87-97.
• Four folklore motifs from three eras in the history of Indonesia and the Philippines // Pilipinas muna! Philippines first! Collection of articles on the 80th anniversary of G.E. Rachkova. St. Petersburg: MAE RAS, 2011.S. 138-174.
• Nanai folklore and ancestral home of the American Indians // Radlovsky collection. Scientific research and museum projects of the MAE RAS in 2011. St. Petersburg: MAE RAS, 2012. P. 329-338.
• Siberian-South Asian folklore parallels and mythology of the Eurasian steppe // Archeology, Anthropology and Ethnography of Eurasia 4 (52), 2012: 144-155
• Mythological trees in the forest of culture // Ethnographic Review 6, 2012: 3-18.
•   // Eesti Kirjandusmuuseumi aastaraamat (Yearbook of the Estonian Literature Museum) 2009. Tartu: Eesti kirjandusmuuseum, 2012 [published in 2013]. P. 31-69.
• (co-authored with S.A. Vasiliev, A.V. Dybo, A.G. Kozintsev, A.V. Tabarev, and S. B. Slobodin) // Ethnographic Review 3, 2012.P. 3-20.
•   // Art & Ideology / Art & Ideology. Sofia: University Publishing House “St. Clement of Ohrid, 2012. S. 625-632.
•   // Zographic collection, vol. 3, 2013, St. Petersburg: MAE RAS. S. 5-37.
• Archeology, Ethnography, and Politogenesis // Early forms of political systems, compiled and resp. Editor V.A. Popov. St. Petersburg: MAE RAS, 2013.S. 135-158.
• The peoples of America // Ethnography (ethnology). Textbook for bachelors. Edited by V.A. Kozmina and V.S. Elder. M .: Yurayt, 2013.S. 399-423.
• Two approaches to the problems of the emergence of complex societies (to the publication of the book by Kent Flannery and Joyce Marcus) (Flannery K., Marcus J. The Creation of Inequality. How our prehistoric ancestors set the stage for monarchy, slavery, and empire. Cambridge, Mass. & London: Harvard University Press, 2012.635 p.) // Russian Archaeological Yearbook 3, 2013.P. 608-615.
• Central Andes, the Middle East and secret knowledge // Theory and Methodology of Archaic. Cyclicity: the dynamics of culture and the preservation of tradition / Ed. ed. M.F. Albedil, D.G. Savinov. St. Petersburg: MAE RAS, 2013.S. 91-121.
•   // Folklore (Tartu) 56, 2014: 25-46.
• Three tricksters: world distribution of zoomorphic protagonists in folklore tales // Scala Naturae. Festschrioft in Honor of Arvo Krikmann for his 75th birthday. Ed. by Anneli Baran, Liisi Laineste, Piret Voolaid. Tartu: ELM Scholaly Press, 2014. P. 347-356
•   // Anthropological forum 20, 2014: 187-217
• Neolithic, Andes and Western Asia // Russian Archaeological Yearbook 4, 2014: 18-25
• Zoomorphic tricksters: patterns of areal distribution // Bestiary III. Zoomorphisms in a traditional universe. Repl. ed. M.A. Rodionov. St. Petersburg: MAE RAS, 2014.S. 29-42
• Zoomorphic support of the earth: South Asian trace // Zographic collection. Vol. 4, 2014. Ans. ed. I'M IN. Vasilkov and M.F. Albedil. SPb: MAE RAS. S. 11-49

Siberian folklore and origin on the den // Archeology, ethnography and anthropology of Eurasia? 1 (61), 2015: 122-134.

• “Seven brothers”, “heavenly wagon” and ancestral home of the Indo-Europeans // Ethnographic Review 3, 2015: 3-14.

Spread of folklore motifs as a proxy for information exchange: contact zones and borderlines in Eurasia // Trames. Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 19 (1), 2015: 3-13.

• Folklore and mythology catalog: its lay-out and potential for research // The Retrospect Methods Network Newsletter 10. Between Text and Practice. Mythology, Religion and Research. A special issue of RMN Newsletter, ed. by Frog and Karina Lukin. Helsinki: University of Helsinki, 2015. P. 56-70.

The spread of folklore motifs as an exchange of information, or Where the west borders on the east // Anthropological Forum 26, 2015: 153-170

• Children pursued by an ogre. Western and Eastern Eurasian borrowings in the 20th century Quechua narratives // Latin American Indian Literatures Journal 30 (2), 2015: 185-215.

Buried in a head: African and Asian parallels to Aesop’s fable // Folklore (London) 127 (1), 2015: 91-102. (with Evgeny Duvakin)

• The captive khan and the clever daughter-in-law // Folklore (Tartu) 64, 2015: 31-54. (with Evgeny Duvakin)

Peopling of the New World in light of the data on distribution of folklore motifs // Maths Meets Myths: Complexity-science approaches to folktales, myths, sagas, and histories, ed. Ralph Kenna, Máirín Mac Carron, and Pádraig Mac Carron. Springer Verlag. (in print)

PROJECTS AND GRANTS (C 1997)

1997-1998,   RHF, No. 97-01-00085, Preparation and computer processing of a database on the mythology of the Indians of North America (supervisor).

1997-1998,   RGNF, No. 97-01-00283, Processing of materials from excavations of the Neolithic settlement of Ilgynly-depe, Southern Turkmenistan (head).

1997-1999,   RFBR, No. 97-04-96348, Early forms of art. Encyclopedic dictionary (performer).

Sep 2000 - Nov 2000.  Dumbarton Oaks Library and Collections, Trustees for Harvard University, Washington D.C. (grant to work in the library).

2003-2005 , Basic Research Program of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences Ethnocultural Interactions in Eurasia: "Eurasian ancestral home of Aboriginal America (analysis of the areal distribution of folklore and mythological motifs" (leader).

2004,   Research grant of the St. Petersburg Scientific Center: Eurasian ancestral home of Aboriginal America. Search, systematization, analysis, interpretation of the distribution of folklore and mythological motifs within the New and Old Worlds (leader).

2004-2006, RFBR, No. 04-06-80238, Myths and genes: reconstruction of the ancient Eurasian plot-motive fund based on a comparative analysis of the areal distribution of genetic lines and folklore-mythological motifs (leader).

2006-2008,   Basic Research Program of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences Adaptation of peoples and cultures to changes in the environment, social and technological transformations: "The oldest migrations reflected in sets of folklore and mythological motifs: origin, contacts and the natural environment as factors in the formation of regional mythologies" (leader).

2007-2009,   RFBR, No. 07-06-00441-a, Myths and languages: linguistic kinship and linguistic boundaries as factors in the formation of regional complexes of folklore and mythological motives (leader).

INTAS 05-10000008-7922 (2007-2008) : A reconstruction of prehistoric Eurasian mythological motif complexes and their most ancient distribution in connection with genetic data (artist).

2009,   RHF, Siberia and the First Americans, No. 08-01-93212, performer.

2009,   Research grant of the St. Petersburg Scientific Center: Comprehensive studies of the settlement processes of the New World (according to archeology, anthropology and folklore), performer.

2009-2011,   Fundamental Research Program of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences Historical and Cultural Heritage and Spiritual Values \u200b\u200bof Russia, "The Most Ancient Population of Siberia and Human Migration to the New World: Interdisciplinary Research Experience (According to Archeology, Anthropology, Ethnography, Folklore and Linguistics)", performer.

2011-2013,   RFBR, No. 11-06-00441, Dynamics of centralization - decentralization of traditional socio-political systems of the Old and New Worlds according to archaeological, historical and ethnographic data, head.

2014-2016,   Grant RFBR 14-06-00247. Project title: "Stages and factors of the formation of the folklore and mythological traditions of Western Eurasia."

2014-2016, Grant of the Russian Science Foundation No. 14-18-03384, "Stories Retold by Millennia: Reconstructing the Dynamics of the Global Spread of the Story and Figurative Elements of Oral Narratives."

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In 1987-2002 - in. Since 2003 he has been working at the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, and heads the Department of America.

Since 1996, she has been teaching at European University in St. Petersburg  , Professor, Department of Anthropology (until 2008 - Department of Ethnology).

Scientific activity

In 1977 he defended his thesis, in 1990 - a doctoral dissertation.

The main areas of research:

• Comparative mythology
• Archeology of the Near and Middle East. In this area, Yu. E. Berezkin identified the main features of the socio-political evolution of early farming societies in this region and discovered their closest ethnographic analogue ( apatani) Thus, they were open to alternatives chiefdoms  in the Neolithic of Southwest Asia, non-hierarchical systems of complex akephalic communities with pronounced autonomy of small-family households.
• The history of the settlement of the New World

Selected Works

• Albedil M.F.  , Beryozkin Yu. E.  Dwellings of the peoples of the world: Little encyclical. : [For ml. and wednesday school age]. - Kaliningrad: Amber. Tale, 2002. - 48 p. - 5,000 copies. - ISBN 5-7406-0545-8.
• Beryozkin Yu. E.  Ancient Peru: New Facts - New Hypotheses. - M.: Knowledge, 1982.- 64 p. - (Read it, comrade!). - 40,000 copies.
• Beryozkin Yu. E.  The most ancient history of South America and Native American mythology: (From hunter-gatherers to early farmers): Author's abstract. dis. ... Dr. ist. sciences. - M., 1990. - 50 p.
• Beryozkin Yu. E.  Once again about horizontal and vertical connections in the structure of medium-sized societies // Alternative paths to civilization. - M .: Logos, 2000 .-- S. 259-264. ISBN 5-88439-136-6
• Beryozkin Yu. E.  . - L.: Nauka, 1991 .-- 229 p. - (History and modernity). - 50,000 copies. - ISBN 5-02-027306-6.
• Berezkin Yu. E.Empire of the Incas. - M .: Algorithm, 2014 .-- 255 p. - 1200 copies. - ISBN 978-5-4438-0894-9.
• Beryozkin Yu. E. . - 2001.
• Beryozkin Yu. E.  Myths populate America: the areal distribution of folklore motifs and early migrations to the New World. - M.: OGI, 2007 .-- 358 p. - (Nation and Culture / New Studies. Folklore / Ed.: A. S. Arkhipova). - 1000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-94282-285-9.
• Beryozkin Yu. E.  Myths of the Old and New Worlds: from the Old to the New World: myths of the peoples of the world. - M.: Astrel: AST, 2009 .-- 446 p. - (Myths of the peoples of the world). - 1,500 copies - ISBN 978-5-17-056957-1. - ISBN 978-5-271-22624-3 ; ISBN 978-5-17-056958-8 ; ISBN 978-5-271-22627-4
• Beryozkin Yu. E.  Mochika: Civilization of the Indians sowing. the coast of Peru in the I-VII centuries. - L.: Nauka, 1983 .-- 165 s. - 4850 copies.
• Vasiliev S. A., Berezkin Yu. E., Kozintsev A. G.  Siberia and the first Americans. - 2nd ed. - SPb. : Filol. Fak. St. Petersburg state University: Nestor-Istoriya, 2011 .-- 171 p. - ("Archaeologica varia": AV / ed. Advice: S. I. Bogdanov [et al.]). - 500 copies. - ISBN 978-5-8465-1117-0.
• Korotayev A., Berezkin Yu., Kozmin A., Arkhipova A. Return of the White Raven: Postdiluvial Reconnaissance Motif A2234.1.1 Reconsidered // J. Amer. Folklore - 2006. - Vol. 119. - P. 472-520.
• Myths of the Indians of South America: Prince. for adults / Comp. and per. Yu. E. Berezkin. - SPb. : Publishing House of Europe. Houses, 1994 .-- 318 p. - ISBN 5-85733-022-X.

• America and the Middle East: forms of sociopolitical organization in the pre-state era // Bulletin of Ancient History  . - 1997. - No. 2. - S. 3-24.
• Anatomy of love: archaic and “progressive” motifs in the mythologies of the circum-Pacific region // Astrata. - SPb., 1999. - Issue. 1: Cultural studies from the history of the Ancient World and Middle Ages: problems of femininity. - S. 159-190.
• Areal distribution of folklore and mythological motifs // / Ed. S. Yu. Malkov et al. - M .: KomKniga: URSS  . - S. 205-232.
• Chiefdoms and akephalic complex societies: data from archeology and ethnographic parallels // Early forms of political organization. - M .: Oriental studies, 1995 .-- S. 39-49.
• The voice of the devil among the snows and the jungle. - L .: Lenizdat, 1987.
• "City of Masters" on the ancient eastern periphery. The layout of the settlement and the social structure of Altyn-depe in the III millennium BC e. // Vestn. ancient history. - 1994. - No. 3. - S. 14-27.
• What reality is hidden in myths? // Nature  . - 1998. - No. 2. - S. 48-60.
• Legends of the Peruvian Indians (cartoon)  . - USSR, 1978.
• W. M. Masson  and social anthropology of the second half of the century // Interaction of ancient cultures and civilizations. - SPb., 2000 .-- S. 32-45.
• American Aboriginal Mythology: Results of statistical processing of the areal distribution of motives // History and semiotics of American Indian cultures. - M., 2002 .-- S. 259-346.
• Latin American Indian mythology: a retrospective of recent research // American Indians: new discoveries and interpretations. - M .: Nauka, 1996 .-- S. 136-152.
• Myths of the Indians of South America. - St. Petersburg: European House, 1994.
• Bridge over the ocean: the settlement of the New World and the mythology of the Indians and Eskimos of America. New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2002.
• On the structure of history: temporal and spatial components // / Ed. P.V. Turchin  et al. - M.: URSS  , 2007 .-- S. 88-98.
• Ideas about mushrooms among the Indians of America // Kunstkamera, ethnographic notebooks. - SPb., 1998. - Issue. 11. - S. 119-132.
• Alternative models of middle range society. Individualistic Asia vs. "Collectivistic" America? // Alternative Pathways to Early State. Vladivostok: Dal’nauka, 1996 .-- P. 75-83.
• Central and South American Indian Mythologies: First Results of Computer Processing // Acta Americana (Stokholm - Uppsala). - 1998. - Vol. 6, No. 1. - P. 77-102.
• Some results of comparative study of American and Siberian mythologies: applications for the peopling of the New World // Acta Americana (Stokholm - Uppsala). - 2002. - Vol. 10, No. 1. - P. 5-28.

• Berezkin U. . FAQ: Comparative Mythology. PostScience (July 13, 2012). Retrieved October 12, 2013.
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Conquista and the early colonial period Conquistadors Chronists, historians, linguists it article preparation  about scientist -historian. You can help the project by supplementing it. Excerpt characterizing Berezkin, Yuri Evgenievich The French hussar non-commissioned officer, in a crimson uniform and furry hat, called out to Balashev, who was approaching, ordering him to stop. Balashev did not stop immediately, but continued to move along the road.   The non-commissioned officer, frowning and grumbling a curse, moved his horse against Balashev with his chest, grabbed his saber and shouted rudely at the Russian general, asking him if he was deaf that he did not hear what he was being told. Balashev called himself. Non-commissioned officer sent a soldier to the officer.   Paying no attention to Balashev, the non-commissioned officer began talking with his comrades about his regimental business and did not look at the Russian general.   It was unusually strange for Balashev, after being close to the highest authority and power, after talking with the sovereign three hours ago and generally accustomed to honors in his service, to see here, on Russian soil, this was a hostile and most important - disrespectful attitude of brute force to himself.   The sun was just beginning to rise from behind the clouds; the air was fresh and dewy. A herd was driven out of the village on the way. In the fields, one by one, like bubbles in water, they were sprayed with the smell of a lark.   Balashev looked around him, awaiting the arrival of an officer from the village. The Russian Cossacks, the trumpeter, and the French hussars silently occasionally looked at each other. The French hussar colonel, apparently just out of bed, left the village on a beautiful well-fed gray horse, accompanied by two hussars. On the officer, on the soldiers and on their horses was a kind of contentment and panache.   This was the first time of the campaign, when the troops were still in good condition, almost equal to viewing, peaceful activities, only with a touch of elegant belligerence in clothes and with a moral touch of the fun and enterprise that always accompany the beginnings of the campaigns.   The French colonel hardly kept his yawn, but was courteous and, apparently, understood the whole significance of Balashev. He led him past his soldiers by the chain and said that his desire to be presented to the emperor would probably be fulfilled immediately, since the imperial apartment, as far as he knows, is nearby.   They drove through the village of Rykonty, past the French hussar stables, sentries and soldiers who saluted their colonel and examined the Russian uniform with curiosity, and drove to the other side of the village. According to the colonel, the head of the division was two kilometers away, who would receive Balashev and take him to his destination.   The sun had already risen and gleamed merrily on bright greenery.   They had just left the tavern up the mountain, when a bunch of riders appeared to meet them from under the mountain, in front of which a tall man in a hat with feathers and black hair curled over his shoulders, in a red robe and with long legs protruding forward, as the French ride. This man galloped towards Balashev, glistening and fluttering in the bright June sun with his feathers, stones and golden galloons. Balashev was already at a distance of two horses from the horseman galloping towards him with a solemn theatrical face in bracelets, feathers, necklaces and gold, when Yulner, the French colonel, whispered respectfully: “Le roi de Naples”. [King of Neapolitan.] Indeed, it was Murat, now called the Neapolitan king. Although it was completely incomprehensible why he was the King of Naples, he was called so, and he himself was convinced of this and therefore had a more solemn and important appearance than before. He was so sure that he was indeed a Neapolitan king, that when, on the eve of his departure from Naples, during his walk with his wife along the streets of Naples, several Italians shouted to him: “Viva il re!”, [Long live the king! (ital.)] he turned to his wife with a sad smile and said: “Les malheureux, ils ne savent pas que je les quitte demain! [Unhappy, they don’t know that I am leaving them tomorrow!]   But despite the fact that he firmly believed that he was a Neapolitan king, and that he regretted the sorrow of his subjects left him, recently, after he was instructed to again enter the service, and especially after a meeting with Napoleon in Danzig, when the august brother-in-law told him: “Je vous ai fait Roi pour regner a maniere, mais pas a la votre”, [I made you king to reign not in my own way, but in my opinion.] - he cheerfully began for a business he knew and, like a horse that was corroded, but not fat, fit for service, sensing himself in a harness, he began to play shamelessly and, discharged as variegated and more expensive as possible, cheerful and content, he rode around, without knowing where and why, along the roads of Poland.   Seeing the Russian general, he royally solemnly threw back his head with hair curled over his shoulders and looked inquiringly at the French colonel. The colonel respectfully conveyed to His Majesty the significance of Balashev, whose last name he could not pronounce.   - De Bal macheve! Said the king (overcoming the difficulty presented to the colonel by his decisiveness), “charme de faire votre connaissance, general, [very nice to meet you, general],” he added with a royal gracious gesture. As soon as the king began to speak loudly and quickly, all the royal dignity instantly left him, and he, without noticing it, passed into his characteristic tone of good-natured familiarity. He laid his hand on the withers of Balashev's horse. - Eh, bien, general, tout est a la guerre, a ce qu "il parait, [Well, general, the matter seems to be going to war,] he said, as if regretting a circumstance about which he was not could judge.   “Sire,” Balashev answered. - l "Empereur mon maitre ne desire point la guerre, et comme Votre Majeste le voit," said Balashev, in all cases using Votre Majeste, [The Emperor of the Russian Emperor does not want her, as your Majesty deign to see ... your Majesty.] With the inevitable affecting the increase in the title, referring to the person for whom the title is still news.   Murat's face shone with silly contentment while he listened to monsieur de Balachoff. But royaute oblige: [the royal rank has its duties:] he felt the need to speak with the envoy of Alexander about state affairs, like a king and ally. He got off his horse and, taking Balashev’s arm and walking a few steps away from the respectfully waiting retinue, began to walk back and forth with him, trying to speak significantly. He mentioned that the Emperor Napoleon was offended by the demands for the withdrawal of troops from Prussia, especially now that this demand has become known to all and when this has offended the dignity of France. Balashev said that this demand is not offensive, because ... Murat interrupted him:   “So you consider not the emperor Alexander as the instigator?” He said unexpectedly with a good-naturedly stupid smile.   Balashev said why he really believed that Napoleon was the initiator of the war. “Eh, mon cher general,” Murat interrupted again, “je desire de tout mon c? Ur que les Empereurs s” arrangent entre eux, et que la guerre commencee malgre moi se termine le plutot possible, [Ah, amiable general, I wish with all my heart that the emperors will finish the matter between themselves and that the war launched against my will be over as soon as possible.] he said in a tone of conversation of servants who wish to remain good friends, despite a quarrel between the gentlemen. questions about the Grand Duke, about his health and about the memories of a fun and funny time spent with him in Naples. Then, as if suddenly remember ive of his royal dignity, Murat straightened up solemnly, stood in the same position in which he stood at the coronation, and, waving his right hand, said: - Je ne vous retiens plus, general; je souhaite le succes de vorte mission, [I I’m not holding you back anymore, General; I wish success to your embassy,] - and, waving his red embroidered robe and feathers and glittering with jewels, he went to the retinue, respectfully awaiting him.   Balashev drove on, according to Murat, assuming very soon to be introduced to Napoleon himself. But instead of a quick meeting with Napoleon, the sentries of the Davout infantry corps again detained him at the next village, as well as in the forward chain, and the adjutant of the corps commander called him to the village to Marshal Davout.

Biography

In 1973-1986 he worked in the Department of America of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, in 1987-2002 - in. Since 2003 he has been working at the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, and heads the Department of America.

Since 1996, she has been teaching at the European University in St. Petersburg, professor at the Department of Anthropology (until 2008, the Department of Ethnology).

Scientific activity

In 1977 he defended his thesis, in 1990 - a doctoral dissertation.

The main areas of research:

• Comparative mythology
• Archeology of the Near and Middle East. In this area, Yu. E. Berezkin identified the main features of the socio-political evolution of early farming societies in the region and discovered their closest ethnographic analogue (apatani). Thus, they were open to alternatives to chiefdoms in the Neolithic South-West Asia, non-hierarchical systems of complex akephalic communities with pronounced autonomy of small-family households.
• The history of the settlement of the New World

Selected Works

• Albedil M.F., Beryozkin Yu. E.  Dwellings of the World: A Little Encyclical. : [For ml. and wednesday school age]. - Kaliningrad: Amber. Tale, 2002. - 48 p. - 5,000 copies. - ISBN 5-7406-0545-8.
• Beryozkin Yu. E.  Ancient Peru: New Facts - New Hypotheses. - M.: Knowledge, 1982.- 64 p. - (Read it, comrade!). - 40,000 copies.
• Beryozkin Yu. E.  The most ancient history of South America and Native American mythology: (From hunter-gatherers to early farmers): Author's abstract. dis. ... Dr. ist. sciences. - M., 1990. - 50 p.
• Beryozkin Yu. E.  Once again about horizontal and vertical connections in the structure of medium-sized societies // Alternative paths to civilization. - M .: Logos, 2000 .-- S. 259-264. ISBN 5-88439-136-6
• Beryozkin Yu. E.  Inca: The historical experience of the empire. - L.: Nauka, 1991 .-- 232 p. - (History and modernity). - 50,000 copies. - ISBN 5-02-027306-6.
• Berezkin Yu. E.Empire of the Incas. - M .: Algorithm, 2014 .-- 255 p. - 1200 copies. - ISBN 978-5-4438-0894-9.
• Beryozkin Yu. E. . - 2001.
• Beryozkin Yu. E.  Myths populate America: the areal distribution of folklore motifs and early migrations to the New World. - M.: OGI, 2007 .-- 358 p. - (Nation and Culture / New Studies. Folklore / Ed.: A. S. Arkhipova). - 1000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-94282-285-9.
• Beryozkin Yu. E.  Myths of the Old and New Worlds: from the Old to the New World: myths of the peoples of the world. - M.: Astrel: AST, 2009 .-- 446 p. - (Myths of the peoples of the world). - 1,500 copies - ISBN 978-5-17-056957-1.  - ISBN 978-5-271-22624-3; ISBN 978-5-17-056958-8; ISBN 978-5-271-22627-4
• Beryozkin Yu. E.  Mochika: Civilization of the Indians sowing. the coast of Peru in the I-VII centuries. - L.: Nauka, 1983 .-- 165 s. - 4850 copies.
• Vasiliev S. A., Berezkin Yu. E., Kozintsev A. G.  Siberia and the first Americans. - 2nd ed. - SPb. : Filol. Fak. St. Petersburg state University: Nestor-Istoriya, 2011 .-- 171 p. - ("Archaeologica varia": AV / ed. Advice: S. I. Bogdanov [et al.]). - 500 copies. - ISBN 978-5-8465-1117-0.
• Korotayev A., Berezkin Yu., Kozmin A., Arkhipova A. Return of the White Raven: Postdiluvial Reconnaissance Motif A2234.1.1 Reconsidered // J. Amer. Folklore - 2006. - Vol. 119. - P. 472-520.
• Myths of the Indians of South America: Prince. for adults / Comp. and per. Yu. E. Berezkin. - SPb. : Publishing House of Europe. Houses, 1994 .-- 318 p. - ISBN 5-85733-022-X.

• America and the Middle East: forms of sociopolitical organization in the pre-state era // Bulletin of Ancient History. - 1997. - No. 2. - S. 3-24.
• Anatomy of love: archaic and “progressive” motifs in the mythologies of the circum-Pacific region // Astrata. - SPb., 1999. - Issue. 1: Cultural studies from the history of the Ancient World and Middle Ages: problems of femininity. - S. 159-190.
• The Areal Distribution of Folklore-Mythological Motives // History and Mathematics: Analysis and Modeling of Socio-Historical Processes / Ed. S. Yu. Malkov et al. - M .: KomKniga: URSS. - S. 205-232.
• Chiefdoms and akephalic complex societies: data from archeology and ethnographic parallels // Early forms of political organization. - M .: Oriental studies, 1995 .-- S. 39-49.
• The voice of the devil among the snows and the jungle. - L .: Lenizdat, 1987.- 180 p.: Ill. - (Reason cognizes the world) .- 100,000 copies
• "City of Masters" on the ancient eastern periphery. The layout of the settlement and the social structure of Altyn-depe in the III millennium BC e. // Vestn. ancient history. - 1994. - No. 3. - S. 14-27.
• What reality is hidden in myths? // Nature. - 1998. - No. 2. - S. 48-60.