Kan
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1551 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Kan |
| SOBRENOME | Kan |
| ASSINATURA | KAN |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Dartmouth College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8565-0528 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 104 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1985 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 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 …
Franz Boas and Soviet Russia
Статья посвящена отношению «отца американской антропологии» Франца Боаса к Советскому Союзу и его взаимоотношениям с российскими/советскими коллегами. Используя как опубликованные источники, так и неопубликованную переписку, автор рассматривает следующую тематику: совместную работу и дружбу Боаса с В.И. Йохельсоном, Л.Я. Штернбергом и в особенности с В.Г. Богоразом; отношение Боаса к царскому и советскому режимам; его попытки создать регулярный о…
True Heirs to a Heroic Russian Past" or "Russians in Name Only
The paper examines the criticism levelled against the Creoles of Sitka (persons of Russian and Alaska Native descent) by the Russian Orthodox priests who came to minister among them in the late 19th-early 20th century. These clergymen accused their parishioners not only of immorality but also of not being truly Russian, as far as their language and culture were concerned. By focusing on this criticism, the paper explores the symbolic significance…
"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
The Concept of the "Field" in Early Soviet Ethnography
The conceptualization of the "field" in early Soviet ethnography had its own dynamics and elaborations within the discursive arenas of the Leningrad ethnographic school. Beginning with the prehistory of the idea of the field among the Enlightenment naturalists and travelers, we turn toward a description of long-term expeditions of the first generation of Soviet ethnographers of the North. Comparing field diaries, photographs, questionnaires, lect…
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…
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…
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…
Kodiak Kreol
This rather slim book is focused on the history of Kodiak Island, the first capital of Russia's only overseas colony, where the cohabitation (made possible by force, self-interest, and also affection) of indigenous Alutiiq women and Russian men led to the establishment of an ethnically mixed Kreol (usually rendered as Creole) community. Following scholars of the key role of interracial/intercultural cohabitation and marriage in the North American…
Authentic Indians
New Perspectives on Native North America
Journal Article New Perspectives on Native North America: Cultures, Histories, and Representations Get access New Perspectives on Native North America: Cultures, Histories, and Representations. By Kan Sergei A. Strong Pauline Turner. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. xlii + 514 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $65.00, cloth; $35.00, paper.) Martha McCollough Martha McCollough University of Nebraska Search for other works by this autho…
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…
My Old Friend in a Dead-end of Empiricism and Skepticism
2. "My Old Friend in a Dead-end of Empiricism and Skepticism"Bogoras, Boas, and the Politics of Soviet Anthropology of the Late 1920s–Early 1930s Sergei Kan (bio) In 1933 the journal Sovetskaia Etnografiia published a translation of Franz Boas's recent paper "The Aims of Anthropological Research." A commentary accompanying it contained the following passage: The empiricist school of ethnography, headed by Boas and other American scholars, is, on …
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…
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
Kodiak Kreol
This rather slim book is focused on the history of Kodiak Island, the first capital of Russia's only overseas colony, where the cohabitation (made possible by force, self-interest, and also affection) of indigenous Alutiiq women and Russian men led to the establishment of an ethnically mixed Kreol (usually rendered as Creole) community. Following scholars of the key role of interracial/intercultural cohabitation and marriage in the North American…
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…
The Concept of the "Field" in Early Soviet Ethnography
The conceptualization of the "field" in early Soviet ethnography had its own dynamics and elaborations within the discursive arenas of the Leningrad ethnographic school. Beginning with the prehistory of the idea of the field among the Enlightenment naturalists and travelers, we turn toward a description of long-term expeditions of the first generation of Soviet ethnographers of the North. Comparing field diaries, photographs, questionnaires, lect…
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…
My Old Friend in a Dead-end of Empiricism and Skepticism
2. "My Old Friend in a Dead-end of Empiricism and Skepticism"Bogoras, Boas, and the Politics of Soviet Anthropology of the Late 1920s–Early 1930s Sergei Kan (bio) In 1933 the journal Sovetskaia Etnografiia published a translation of Franz Boas's recent paper "The Aims of Anthropological Research." A commentary accompanying it contained the following passage: The empiricist school of ethnography, headed by Boas and other American scholars, is, on …
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…
New Perspectives on Native North America
Journal Article New Perspectives on Native North America: Cultures, Histories, and Representations Get access New Perspectives on Native North America: Cultures, Histories, and Representations. By Kan Sergei A. Strong Pauline Turner. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. xlii + 514 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $65.00, cloth; $35.00, paper.) Martha McCollough Martha McCollough University of Nebraska Search for other works by this autho…
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
Symbolic Immortality
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
My Old Friend in a Dead-end of Empiricism and Skepticism
2. "My Old Friend in a Dead-end of Empiricism and Skepticism"Bogoras, Boas, and the Politics of Soviet Anthropology of the Late 1920s–Early 1930s Sergei Kan (bio) In 1933 the journal Sovetskaia Etnografiia published a translation of Franz Boas's recent paper "The Aims of Anthropological Research." A commentary accompanying it contained the following passage: The empiricist school of ethnography, headed by Boas and other American scholars, is, on …
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…
New Perspectives on Native North America
Journal Article New Perspectives on Native North America: Cultures, Histories, and Representations Get access New Perspectives on Native North America: Cultures, Histories, and Representations. By Kan Sergei A. Strong Pauline Turner. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. xlii + 514 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $65.00, cloth; $35.00, paper.) Martha McCollough Martha McCollough University of Nebraska Search for other works by this autho…
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