Article published in the Country Squire Magazine ‘The Moon is a Balloon’ or is it? Will we ever see the likes of David Niven again? It is a fair question to ask, isn’t it now that the new moralism has become absolutely hegemonic. Not so many years...
There is Something Amiss (published in The Country Squire Magazine) Blessed with silly middle names since a young age, St. Clair walked the damp, post- pandemic streets of Jericho in pursuit of a croissant and a spot of Crème anglaise. There was something queer about his pronominal usage...
A paper on the Russian philosophy of language has been published in the Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies 22 (65), 2023: 145-58. Words to things: religious cosmologies in the context of the (Russian) Orthodox philosophy of language Abstract Religious cosmologies put forward by Russian philosophers...
'The Nihilistic Turn: Dealing with Ethnographic Entanglements' has been published in Anthropos 2023 (118): 1-5. The nihilistic turn: dealing with ethnographic entanglements In this brief essay, I intend to make two inter-related points: (1) the perception by interlocutors and one’s coevals that ethnographic fieldwork is by...
Latest research on the semiotic analysis of prayer has been published. This research is based on my long-term fieldwork in Colombia and Russia. This research article can be found in Anthropological Notebooks 29 (1): 1-20. This article brings together two unrelated ethnographies in which former hostages...
My latest book, Annals of Solitude, receives a very sound review in the Country Squire Magazine. Here is the article: https://countrysquire.co.uk/2022/09/07/annals-of-solitude/ ...
If you live alone in a cabin (it could be in the forest, up in the mountains or on the Arctic tundra), you soon reconnect with nature because the seasons and the weather become overwhelmingly relevant to the point they become internalized. This reconnection with...
Ten things that you learn if you live alone for a year in an Arctic cabin I lived alone for a year in a cabin in the High Arctic, north-west Greenland. I went to the most remote settlement I could find and lived as close to...
Below is the transcript of a short interview with the students at Moscow State Linguistic University. Thank you, Katja, for putting the transcript together. It was a pleasure talking to you all. Ekaterina: We are delighted to have with us today Dr Stephen Pax Leonard –...
My latest book, Annals of Solitude, receives strong reviews in America, UK, Germany and Russia. Comments include: 'the most moving and thought-provoking book I have read in years'; 'this Arctic Walden'; 'this book takes us to the forgotten centre of our spiritual possibilities in the...