Bibliotheca
Sibiro-pacifica |
SEC Publications
general editors: Erich Kasten and Michael Dürr |
Waldemar Jochelson The Koryak Part I. – Religion and Myths Part II. – Material Culture and Social Organization Edited by Erich Kasten and Michael Dürr 2016, Fürstenberg: Kulturstiftung Sibirien 884 pp., 1 farb. Abb., 15,5 x 22 cm ISBN: 978-3-942883-87-0 Euro 68, Hardcover |
Since the
18th century, researchers and scientists have
traveled the peninsula of Kamchatka in the Russian
Far East. Many of them were of German origin and
had been commissioned by the Russian government to
perform specific tasks. Their exhaustive
descriptions and detailed reports are still
considered some of the most valuable documents on
the ethnography of the indigenous peoples of that
part of the world. These works inform us about
living conditions and particular ways of natural
resource use at various times, and provide us with
valuable background information for current
assessment.
As the first profound anthropological descriptions
of that region, the publications of the Jesup
North Pacific Expedition, undertaken in the first
years of the 20th century, marked the beginning of
a new era of research in Russia. They represented
a shift of the already existing transnational
research networks toward North America.
Jochelson’s work The Koryak was an
important milestone for Russian and North American
anthropology that provides to this day a unique
contribution to thoroughly understanding the
cultures of the North Pacific rim.
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Foreword
by Erich Kasten and Michael Dürr:
Jochelson and the Jesup North Pacific Expedition
A new approach in the ethnography for the Russian
Far East