The Museum at the End of the World: Encounters in the Russian Far East

Alexia Bloch; Laurel Kendall

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2004

The Museum at the End of the World

Encounters in the Russian Far East

Alexia Bloch and Laurel Kendall

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812293661

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Anthropologists Alexia Bloch and Laurel Kendall tell the story of their journey retracing the nineteenth-century Jesup North Pacific Expedition to the remote easternmost extension of Siberia and the northwest coast of North America.

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Alexia Bloch teaches anthropology at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of Red Ties and Residential Schools: Indigenous Siberians in a Post-Soviet State, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Laurel Kendall is Curator of Asian Ethnographic Collections at the American Museum of Natural History. She is the author of Shamans, Housewives, and Other Restless Spirits, The Life and Hard Times of a Korean Shaman, and Getting Married in Korea: Of Gender, Morality, and Modernity.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface: The Museum at the End of Whose World? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Note on Transliteration Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xix
Map of the Russian Far East Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xx
1. Across the Bering Strait and Through the Looking Glass Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Chukotka: At the Edge of a Crumbling Empire Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	26
3. Magadan: The End of History Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
4. Anadyr: Tundra Town in Pastel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
5. Khabarovsk: Embroidering the Border Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
6. Petropavlovsk: Once Almost a Boom Town Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
7. Esso and the Way There Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
8. In the Entourage of the Fisher King Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	174
9. Again Petropavlovsk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
Epilogues Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	210
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Selected Sources Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223

Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 256
Illustrations
- Other: 41 illus.
Keywords: Anthropology; Folklore; Linguistics

eBook

Published: May 6, 2016
ISBN: 9780812293661