Bibliotheca
Sibiro-pacifica |
SEC Publications
general editors: Erich Kasten and Michael Dürr |
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.
Foreword
by Thomas Ross Miller:
Reading the ethnographic past in the present:
Waldemar Jochelson and the Yukaghir