Bernstein A., Sivkov D. Yu. “Resurrection is possible not only for people” // The Russian Peasant Studies. 2024. V.9. №3. P. 119-126.

DOI: 10.22394/2500-1809-2024-9-3-119-126

Annotation

This interview with Anya Bernstein, Professor of Anthropology at the Harvard University, the author of books on immortality and transhumanism in Russia, focuses on her new research — ethnography of the Pleistocene Park in Yakutia. The anthropologist Denis Sivkov discusses the context of this study and the main ideas of the Zimovs, father and son, creators of the park, about the ecosystem restoration — the mammoth steppe, the revival of species and the preservation of permafrost. The interview considers a broader context — the concepts of Russian cosmism and the issues of regulating nature, immortality and resurrection.

Keywords

Pleistocene Park, soil, ecosystem, permafrost, cryonics, cosmism, future, revival of species.

About the authors

Anya Bernstein, Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge MA 02138, USA.
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Denis Yu. Sivkov, PhD (Philosophy), Senior Researcher, Center for Cosmism Studies, Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences. Gazetny Per., 3–5, bldg. 1, Moscow, 125009.
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