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general editors: Erich Kasten and Michael Dürr
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Waldemar Jochelson
The Yukaghir and the Yukaghirized
Tungus
Edited
by Erich Kasten and Michael
Dürr
2018,
Fürstenberg: Kulturstiftung Sibirien
with a foreword by Thomas Ross Miller
548
pp., 16 x 22,5 cm
ISBN:
978-3-942883-90-0
Euro 58,
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. Jochelson’s work
The Yukaghir
and the Yukaghirized Tungus, for which he also
draws on results of his earlier fieldwork in that
area, was an important milestone for Russian and North
American anthropology that provides to this day a
unique contribution to thoroughly understanding the
cultures of northeastern Siberia.
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Foreword
by Thomas Ross Miller:
Reading the ethnographic past in the present:
Waldemar Jochelson and the Yukaghir
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