Sergei Kan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3618202 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sergei Kan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sergei |
| FAMILY NAME | Kan |
| SIGNATURE | KAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dartmouth College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 92 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Interview with Raymond D. Fogelson (1933–2020)
Boas and Boasians, once again
The present review discusses two recent works dealing with Franz Boas: a biography by Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt and a book on Boas and several members of his school by Charles King. The information presented in Zumwalt’s biography is compared with the one found in an earlier one by Douglas Cole as well as in various books and articles on the specific aspects of Boas’s life and career. King’s book is commended for its depiction of Zora Neil Hurston’s …
"Raymond D. Fogelson's "The Ethnohistory of Events and Nonevents
“The Ethnohistory of Events and Nonevents” was originally delivered as a presidential address by Ray Fogelson at the 1988 American Society for Ethnohistory meeting. In it he aligned himself with the French Annales school as far as its critique of a positivist, event-centered view of history is concerned, and he encouraged ethnohistorians to attend to various kinds of “nonevents” (see Kan and Turner Strong 2006: xviii).Later published in Ethnohist…
U nited S tates, Anthropology in
The entry outlines the history of the development of anthropology in the United States from its beginning in the late eighteenth century to the present. Particular attention is paid to American anthropology's distinct characteristics (e.g., its four‐fields tradition), its main theoretical paradigms, and its relationship to some major economic, political, and cultural developments in the wider American society
Death in the Early Twenty-first Century
Death in the Early Twenty-first Century
Craig Campbell. Agitating Images
Journal Article Craig Campbell. Agitating Images: Photography against History in Indigenous Siberia. Get access Craig Campbell. Agitating Images: Photography against History in Indigenous Siberia. (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies.) Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014. Pp. xx, 267. Cloth $81.00, paper $27.00. Sergei Kan Sergei Kan Dartmouth College [email protected] Search for other works by this author on…
Symbolic Immortality
Before Boas
Han F. Vermeulen, a Dutch scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany, argues in this monumental and meticulous historical study that, contrary to a widespread view, modern anthropology has its roots not in the nineteenth century but in the German Enlightenment. Using primary sources from Russian, German, Austrian, and other European archives as well as numerous secondary ones, Vermeulen painstakingly explores ho…
Symbolic Immortality
Conclusion
Guest Editor's Introduction
"Sergei Ionovich Kostromitinov (1854-1915), or "Colonel George Kostrometinoff
Sergei Kostromitinov was born in 1854 to a Russian employee of the Russian-American Company and a Creole woman. Fluent in Russian and English and conversant in several native languages, he became an interpreter for Alaska's American authorities and an indispensable cultural broker among the region's Euro-American, Russian-Creole, and native communities. Thanks to that role as well as his political skills and successful commercial activities, Kost…
Authentic Indians
Evolutionism and Historical Particularism at the St. Petersburg Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography
In the 1900s-1920s, Lev Shternberg played a major role in transforming the St. Petersburg Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography into Russia's most comprehensive ethnology museum and a popular site for visitors. As an anthropologist, Shternberg was committed to both a Boasian investigation of individual cultures (and intercultural relations) and classical evolutionism. Hence he believed that his museum had to include displays depicting distinct c…
Leslie A. White
Book Review| January 01 2007 Leslie A. White: Evolution and Revolution in Anthropology Leslie A. White: Evolution and Revolution in Anthropology. By William J. Peace. $55.00 paper.) Sergei Kan Sergei Kan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (1): 199–202. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2006-047 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Sergei Kan…
New Perspectives on Native North America
In this volume some of the leading scholars working in Native North America explore contemporary perspectives on Native culture, history, and representation. Written in honor of the anthropologist Raymond D. Fogelson, the volume charts the currents of contemporary scholarship while offering an invigorating challenge to researchers in the field. The essays employ a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches and range widely across time a…
Coming to Shore
The Northwest Coast of North America was home to dozens of Native peoples at the time of its first contact with Europeans. The rich artistic, ceremonial, and oral traditions of these peoples and their preservation of cultural practices have made this region especially attractive for anthropological study. Coming to Shore provides a historical overview of the ethnology and ethnohistory of this region, with special attention given to contemporary, …
Against Culture
Against Culture: Development, Politics, and Religion in Indian Alaska. Kirk Dombrowski. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. 247 pp
Memory Eternal
Journal Article Memory Eternal: Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity through Two Centuries. By Sergei Kan. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. xxxii, 665 pp. $60.00, ISBN 0-295-97806-6.) Get access Ken Coates Ken Coates University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 2, September 2001, Pages 679–680, https:…
Memory Eternal
Journal Article Memory Eternal: Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity through Two Centuries Get access Memory Eternal: Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity through Two Centuries. By Kan Sergei. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. xxxi + 665 pp. Illustrations, map, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $60.00.) David Arnold David Arnold Columbia Basin College, Pasco, Washington Search for other works by this au…
A Letter Which Was Never Sent
VLADIMIR S. SOBOLEV (St. Petersburg, Russia) SERGEI KAN, translator and editor (Hanover, NH, U.S.A.) A LETTER WHICH WAS NEVER SENT* A short period in the history of Russia, involving the Provisional Govern- ment, h a s not b e e n adequately studied. This observation applies not only to political history but the study of the development of international cultural and scholarly contacts which occurred during that period. Recently I discov- e r e d …
Clan Mothers and Godmothers
Sergei Kan, Clan Mothers and Godmothers: Tlingit Women and Russian Orthodox Christianity, 1840-1940, Ethnohistory, Vol. 43, No. 4, Native American Women's Responses to Christianity (Autumn, 1996), pp. 613-641
The Transition from Shamanism to Russian Orthodoxy in Alaska
Responding to twofold question how did the transition occur; and what were its implications for the ancient cultures? - this thesis places an emphasis upon the transition as an indigenous movement, involving a transformation of the ancient. The primary focus is comprised of the Aleut and Alutiiq peoples who converted virtually as whole nations in the later 18th century. They then maintained this faith themselves within their village structures, a…
Anthropology of death in the late 1980s
Badone, Ellen. The Appointed Hour: Death, Worldview, and Social Change in Brittany. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. XVI + 366 pp. including maps, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95 cloth. Watson, James L. and Evelyn S. Rawski, (Eds.). Death Ritual in Late Imperial and Modern China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. XV + 334 pp. including glossary/index. $40.00 cloth. Cederroth, S., C. Corlin, and J. Lind…
Symbolic Immortality
The 19th-century Tlingit potlatch
The paper explores the meaning of the 19th-century Tlingit memorial potlatch and explains some of the reasons for its centrality in the Tlingit sociocultural order. By drawing on existing accounts of this complex ritual and on data obtained during fieldwork in 1979-80 and 1984, the study focuses on the symbolism of ceremonial objects, ritual acts and discourse, as well as the interaction and relationships among actors. By treating the dead as act…
Chiefly Feasts
Shamanism and Christianity
The Transition from Shamanism to Russian Orthodoxy in Alaska
Responding to twofold question how did the transition occur; and what were its implications for the ancient cultures? - this thesis places an emphasis upon the transition as an indigenous movement, involving a transformation of the ancient. The primary focus is comprised of the Aleut and Alutiiq peoples who converted virtually as whole nations in the later 18th century. They then maintained this faith themselves within their village structures, a…
Russian Orthodox Brotherhoods among the Tlingit
"Sergei Ionovich Kostromitinov (1854-1915), or "Colonel George Kostrometinoff
Sergei Kostromitinov was born in 1854 to a Russian employee of the Russian-American Company and a Creole woman. Fluent in Russian and English and conversant in several native languages, he became an interpreter for Alaska's American authorities and an indispensable cultural broker among the region's Euro-American, Russian-Creole, and native communities. Thanks to that role as well as his political skills and successful commercial activities, Kost…
Clan Mothers and Godmothers
Sergei Kan, Clan Mothers and Godmothers: Tlingit Women and Russian Orthodox Christianity, 1840-1940, Ethnohistory, Vol. 43, No. 4, Native American Women's Responses to Christianity (Autumn, 1996), pp. 613-641
An Account of a Voyage to the North West Coast of America in 1785 and 1786
Before Boas
Han F. Vermeulen, a Dutch scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany, argues in this monumental and meticulous historical study that, contrary to a widespread view, modern anthropology has its roots not in the nineteenth century but in the German Enlightenment. Using primary sources from Russian, German, Austrian, and other European archives as well as numerous secondary ones, Vermeulen painstakingly explores ho…
Against Culture
Against Culture: Development, Politics, and Religion in Indian Alaska. Kirk Dombrowski. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. 247 pp
Anthropology of death in the late 1980s
Badone, Ellen. The Appointed Hour: Death, Worldview, and Social Change in Brittany. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. XVI + 366 pp. including maps, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95 cloth. Watson, James L. and Evelyn S. Rawski, (Eds.). Death Ritual in Late Imperial and Modern China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. XV + 334 pp. including glossary/index. $40.00 cloth. Cederroth, S., C. Corlin, and J. Lind…
The Sacred and the Secular
T HE SECULARIZATION OF TRADITIONAL sacred performative genres in Native North American is not an entirely recent phenomenon but it has become more common in the last few decades. During that period, the influence of Euramerican culture on many of the Indian people, particularly those who no longer speak their native languages and/or understand the meaning of traditional rituals, has increased. At the same time, with the rise of ethnic consciousne…
"Raymond D. Fogelson's "The Ethnohistory of Events and Nonevents
“The Ethnohistory of Events and Nonevents” was originally delivered as a presidential address by Ray Fogelson at the 1988 American Society for Ethnohistory meeting. In it he aligned himself with the French Annales school as far as its critique of a positivist, event-centered view of history is concerned, and he encouraged ethnohistorians to attend to various kinds of “nonevents” (see Kan and Turner Strong 2006: xviii).Later published in Ethnohist…
Evolutionism and Historical Particularism at the St. Petersburg Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography
In the 1900s-1920s, Lev Shternberg played a major role in transforming the St. Petersburg Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography into Russia's most comprehensive ethnology museum and a popular site for visitors. As an anthropologist, Shternberg was committed to both a Boasian investigation of individual cultures (and intercultural relations) and classical evolutionism. Hence he believed that his museum had to include displays depicting distinct c…
Russian Orthodox Brotherhoods among the Tlingit
An Account of a Voyage to the North West Coast of America in 1785 and 1786
The 19th-century Tlingit potlatch
The paper explores the meaning of the 19th-century Tlingit memorial potlatch and explains some of the reasons for its centrality in the Tlingit sociocultural order. By drawing on existing accounts of this complex ritual and on data obtained during fieldwork in 1979-80 and 1984, the study focuses on the symbolism of ceremonial objects, ritual acts and discourse, as well as the interaction and relationships among actors. By treating the dead as act…
Tlingit Indians of Alaska
The Indians of Puget Sound
Tlingit Indians of Alaska
Journal Article Tlingit Indians of Alaska Get access Tlingit Indians of Alaska. By Kamenskii Archimandrite Anatolii. Translated by SERGEI KAN. (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 1985. xvii + 166 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, notes, bibliography, glossaries, index. $15.00, paper.) Joan M. Antonson Joan M. Antonson Alaska Division of Parks Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, V…
Why the aristocrats were ‘heavy’ or how ethnopsychology legitimized inequality among the Tlingit
The Sacred and the Secular
T HE SECULARIZATION OF TRADITIONAL sacred performative genres in Native North American is not an entirely recent phenomenon but it has become more common in the last few decades. During that period, the influence of Euramerican culture on many of the Indian people, particularly those who no longer speak their native languages and/or understand the meaning of traditional rituals, has increased. At the same time, with the rise of ethnic consciousne…
Haa Shuka, Our Ancestors
Shamanism and Christianity
Symbolic Immortality
Anthropology of death in the late 1980s
Badone, Ellen. The Appointed Hour: Death, Worldview, and Social Change in Brittany. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. XVI + 366 pp. including maps, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95 cloth. Watson, James L. and Evelyn S. Rawski, (Eds.). Death Ritual in Late Imperial and Modern China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. XV + 334 pp. including glossary/index. $40.00 cloth. Cederroth, S., C. Corlin, and J. Lind…
Chiefly Feasts
Social/Cultural Anthropology
Clan Mothers and Godmothers
Sergei Kan, Clan Mothers and Godmothers: Tlingit Women and Russian Orthodox Christianity, 1840-1940, Ethnohistory, Vol. 43, No. 4, Native American Women's Responses to Christianity (Autumn, 1996), pp. 613-641
The Transition from Shamanism to Russian Orthodoxy in Alaska
Responding to twofold question how did the transition occur; and what were its implications for the ancient cultures? - this thesis places an emphasis upon the transition as an indigenous movement, involving a transformation of the ancient. The primary focus is comprised of the Aleut and Alutiiq peoples who converted virtually as whole nations in the later 18th century. They then maintained this faith themselves within their village structures, a…
A Letter Which Was Never Sent
VLADIMIR S. SOBOLEV (St. Petersburg, Russia) SERGEI KAN, translator and editor (Hanover, NH, U.S.A.) A LETTER WHICH WAS NEVER SENT* A short period in the history of Russia, involving the Provisional Govern- ment, h a s not b e e n adequately studied. This observation applies not only to political history but the study of the development of international cultural and scholarly contacts which occurred during that period. Recently I discov- e r e d …
Memory Eternal
Journal Article Memory Eternal: Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity through Two Centuries Get access Memory Eternal: Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity through Two Centuries. By Kan Sergei. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. xxxi + 665 pp. Illustrations, map, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $60.00.) David Arnold David Arnold Columbia Basin College, Pasco, Washington Search for other works by this au…
Memory Eternal
Journal Article Memory Eternal: Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity through Two Centuries. By Sergei Kan. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. xxxii, 665 pp. $60.00, ISBN 0-295-97806-6.) Get access Ken Coates Ken Coates University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 2, September 2001, Pages 679–680, https:…
Against Culture
Against Culture: Development, Politics, and Religion in Indian Alaska. Kirk Dombrowski. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. 247 pp
New Perspectives on Native North America
In this volume some of the leading scholars working in Native North America explore contemporary perspectives on Native culture, history, and representation. Written in honor of the anthropologist Raymond D. Fogelson, the volume charts the currents of contemporary scholarship while offering an invigorating challenge to researchers in the field. The essays employ a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches and range widely across time a…
Coming to Shore
The Northwest Coast of North America was home to dozens of Native peoples at the time of its first contact with Europeans. The rich artistic, ceremonial, and oral traditions of these peoples and their preservation of cultural practices have made this region especially attractive for anthropological study. Coming to Shore provides a historical overview of the ethnology and ethnohistory of this region, with special attention given to contemporary, …
Leslie A. White
Book Review| January 01 2007 Leslie A. White: Evolution and Revolution in Anthropology Leslie A. White: Evolution and Revolution in Anthropology. By William J. Peace. $55.00 paper.) Sergei Kan Sergei Kan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (1): 199–202. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2006-047 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Sergei Kan…
Evolutionism and Historical Particularism at the St. Petersburg Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography
In the 1900s-1920s, Lev Shternberg played a major role in transforming the St. Petersburg Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography into Russia's most comprehensive ethnology museum and a popular site for visitors. As an anthropologist, Shternberg was committed to both a Boasian investigation of individual cultures (and intercultural relations) and classical evolutionism. Hence he believed that his museum had to include displays depicting distinct c…
Authentic Indians
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