Anya Bernstein

Anya Bernstein is an anthropologist whose work explores the intersections of science, technology, religion, and politics, with a particular focus on how life, death, nature, and time are being remade. Her most recent book, The Future of Immortality: Remaking Life and Death in Contemporary Russia, traces Russian efforts to achieve immortality through a combination of biotechnological, philosophical, and religious pursuits. Her first book, Religious Bodies Politic: Rituals of Sovereignty in Buryat Buddhism, examines the transformation of Buddhist practice among the Buryats of Siberia. Bernstein is currently working on her third book, Pleistocene Park: Extinction and Eternity in the Russian Arctic, which investigates efforts to "resurrect" an extinct ecosystem in Siberia in an attempt to slow the melting of permafrost.