The Franz Boas Papers, Volume 3
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-3882-5 (ISBN)
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The story of Franz Boas, one of the founders of American anthropology, can be imagined as a res publica literaria, a network that, like its Renaissance prototype, shaped the contours of transnational anthropology. This two-part volume chronicles more than forty years of Boas's collaborations and friendships with Russian and Soviet anthropologists, following a small group of anthropologists as they built the house of Arctic and Siberian anthropology. Through these letters, readers are introduced to a lesser-known aspect of Boas's political life and his ambition to redefine anthropology as a transnational discipline, one that transcended national borders and political obstacles. Through meticulously gathered correspondence from more than thirty archives in the United States, Russia, France, and Norway, The Franz Boas Papers, Volume 3 reveals an untold chapter in the history of anthropology.
Franz Boas (1858–1942) was a professor of anthropology at Columbia University and a public intellectual and advocate for social justice. He is the author of The Mind of Primitive Man, Primitive Art, Anthropology and Modern Life, and Race, Language, and Culture, among other books. Dmitry V. Arzyutov is an assistant professor in the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at the Ohio State University and an honorary research fellow at the University of Aberdeen (United Kingdom). He is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters in English, Russian, French, German, Finnish, and Swedish, dedicated to Siberian and Arctic Indigenous ethnohistory, environmental history, and the history of anthropology. Sergei A. Kan is a professor of anthropology at Dartmouth College. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including A Maverick Boasian: The Life and Work of Alexander A. Goldenweiser (Nebraska, 2023), Sharing Our Knowledge: The Tlingit and Their Coastal Neighbors (Nebraska, 2015), and Lev Shternberg: Anthropologist, Russian Socialist, Jewish Activist (Nebraska, 2009). Laura Siragusa is an assistant professor of teaching in the Department of Linguistics and in the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at the Ohio State University. She is the author of Promoting Heritage Language in Northwest Russia. Alexander Pershai is an associate director of equity at the University of Waterloo (Canada). Pershai has published a book in Russian on gender stratification in idiomatic expressions.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Preface
Notes On Language, Transliteration, Personal, Place and Ethnic Names
Notes On Referencing Archival and Museum Collections
Notes On Translation of German Letters of Waldemar Jochelson, Sarah Shternberg, Berthold Laufer, And Waldemar Bogoras (Sarah Moritz)
Abbreviations
Introduction. The Boas Bridges to Russia: Building Anthropologies with Letters. By Dmitry Arzyutov, Sergei Kan, And Laura Siragusa
PART I. BRIDGES ACROSS THE OCEAN
1. The Idea: Franz Boas and the Dawn of Transnational Arctic Anthropology
2. Unsuccessful Negotiations: A Very Short Story about How Erwin von Zach Did Not Travel to Siberia
3. Encountering the Amur World and Antisemitism: Berthold Laufer and Gerard Fowke
4. Russian Scholars Needed!: Franz Boas Hiring Revolutionaries
5. The Yukaghir World: Waldemar and Dina Jochelson
6. The Chukchi World: Waldemar and Sophie Bogoras
7. The Double-Faced Janus: Being Russian Jews, Former Exiles, and Foreign-Sponsored Anthropologists in Siberia
8. Gifts to Russian Emperor: Maintaining Relations with Russian Academy of Sciences
9. “Siberia is a part of America more truly than it is a part of Asia . . . ”: Public Reports in the Pages of The New York Times
10. The Jesup North Pacific Expedition: Franz Boas’ Academic Report
Part II. Bridges of Friendship
11. Melancholia and Precarious Life in New York and the French Riviera: Waldemar (and Dina) Jochelson
12. Not Quite a Jesupian Anthropologist: Leo (and Sarah) Shternberg
13. Midnight Letters from Prison Cells and Professor’s Office: Waldemar (and Sophie) Bogoras
Part III. Bridges to the Field
14. Roads Not Taken: The Kola Peninsula Expedition
15. Encounters at the Bridge: The 1928 International Congress of Americanists and the Boas-Bogoras Agreement
16. “You are not a white woman, you are a true Indian”: “Papa Franz” and Julia Averkieva (whāni,)
17. Learning from the Soviet Experiment: Comrade Archibald Phinney in Leningrad
18. Visual Dialogues: Julia Averkieva, Archibald Phinney, and Their Visual Anthropology Projects
19. Constructing the Circumpolar Theory: Franz Boas and Waldemar Bogoras
20. Dreaming On: Collaborative Projects in the Arctic
Part IV. The Rickety Bridge Towards Soviet Russia
21. In Two Minds: Sergei (and Elizabeth) Shirokogoroff and Alexander Forshtein
22. Russia from Afar: Politics of Franz Boas
Epilogue. Idealism Against Empire: Franz Boas’ Correspondence with His Russian/Soviet Partners. By Igor Krupnik
Appendix: Archie Phinney’s Wax Cylinder from The Pushkin House in Saint Petersburg. By Svetlana Podrezova
Bibliography
Notes
Editors
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.7.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Franz Boas Papers Documentary Edition |
| Zusatzinfo | 39 photographs, 11 illustrations, 5 maps, 1 table, appendix, index |
| Verlagsort | Lincoln |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 178 x 254 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4962-3882-6 / 1496238826 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4962-3882-5 / 9781496238825 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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