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Sergei Kan

Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Chicago, 1982 Sergei Kan
Professor of Anthropology and Native American Studies, Dartmouth College
Center Associate, Davis Center

Contact Information
603.646.2550
sergei.a.kan@dartmouth.edu

Research interests
History of Russian and American anthropology, Alaska as "Russian America"; Jewish anthropology and anthropology of Jews and Judaism, Soviet and post-Soviet culture, anthropology of nationalism.

Current Projects
American Anthropologists and Soviet Russia: 1917-1950s; the Creole ("Russian") community of Sitka, Alaska, in the post-1867 era; history and culture of the Tlingit Indians of Alaska.

Selected Publications
Lev Shternberg, Anthropologist, Russian Socialist, Jewish Activist. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009.

"Alexander Goldenweiser’s Politics." History of Anthropology Annual. Vol. 5. Ed. by Regna Darnell and Frederick Gleach. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press (Forthcoming 2009).

"Nadezhda Briullova-Shaskol’skaia: Etnolog, Eser, Chelovek Epokhi." Etnograficheskoe Obozrenie 2, 2008: 87-105.

"Evolutionism and Historical Particularism at the St. Petersburg Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography." Museum Anthropology 31(1), 2008: 28-46.

"Moi Drug v Tupike Empirizma i Skepsisa: Vladimir Bogoraz, Frants Boas i Politichskii Kontekst Sovetskoi Etnologii v Kontse 1920-x – nachale 1930-x gg." Anthropological Forum/Antropologicheskii Forum (St. Petersburg), vol. 7, 2007: 191-230.

Memory Eternal: Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity Through Two Centuries. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999.

 
 
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