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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.

Book details

• Full title: The Koryak
• Author: Waldemar Jochelson, Erich Kasten, Michael Dürr
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 884
• EAN: 9783942883870
• ISBN: 3942883872
• ID: 12824161
• Publisher: Verlag der Kulturstiftung Sibirien
• Weight: 1455 g
• Dimensions: 228 × 167 × 66 mm
• Date of publishing: 26. April 2016

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