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Sergei Kan

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

Contact Information
603.646.2550 (work)
sergei.a.kan@dartmouth.edu
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~anthro/

Research interests
Native North America; Russian America (Alaska); indigenous Siberia; Russian, Soviet and "post-Soviet" culture; ethnography of Jews and Jewish ethnographers; representation of and self-representation by indigenous peoples; history of anthropology; anthropology of religion; Christian missionization; death and dying; ethnographic methods; history of anthropology

Current Projects
Monograph: "Lev Shternberg, Russian Revolutionary Populist, Anthropologist, Jewish Activist."

Selected Publications

2003 Noviy podkhod k izucheniu zhizni i deiatel'nosti L.la. Shternebrga [New Approach to the Study of the Life and Work of Lev Shternberg]. Pp. 4-17 in Norody i kul'tury Dal'nego Vostoka: Vzgliad iz XXI veka. Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk: Sakhalinskoe Knizhnoe Izdatelstvo.

2002 "'Russian Bastian' and Boas: or Why Shternberg's 'The Social Organization of the Gilyak' Never Appeared Among the Jesup Expedition Publications." pp. 217-248 in Gateways:Exploring the Legacy of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, 1897-1902. William K. Fitzhugh and Igor Krupnik, eds. Contributions to Circumpolar Anthropology 1. Arctic Studies Center, Smithsonian Institution.

2001 "Nineteenth-Century Russian Orthodox Missionaries at Home and Abroad: the Case of Siberian and Alaskan Indigenous Peoples." pp. 173-200 in Of Religion and Identity: Missions, Conversion, and Tolerance in the Russian Empire. Robert Geraci and Michael Khodarkovsky, eds. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001.

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

1985 Fr. Anatolii Kamenskii. Tingit Indians of Alaska. [1906]. Translation from Russian, with an Introduction and Supplementary Material. The Rasmuson Library Historical Translation Series. Vol. II. Fairbanks: University of Alaska.

 

 
 
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