Antropologicheskij forum, 2017, no. 33

IN MEMORY OF ELENA NIKOLAEVNA USPENSKAYA

Alexei Burykin

Institute for Linguistic Studies
9, Tuchkov alley, St Petersburg, Russia
albury@rambler.ru

Natalia Golant

Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences
3, Universitetskaya emb., St Petersburg, Russia
natalita@yandex.ru

Alexander Novik

Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences
3, Universitetskaya emb., St Petersburg, Russia
njual@mail.ru

Vladimir Popov

St Petersburg State University
11, Universitetskaya emb., St Petersburg, Russia
v.a.popov@spbu.ru
popoffwladimir@gmail.com

Anna Siim (Moskvitina)

Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences
3, Universitetskaya emb., St Petersburg, Russia
anna.siim@gmail.com

Alexander Sotov

Independent researcher
St Petersburg, Russia
a.sotov@yahoo.co.uk

Abstract: The article is dedicated to the memory of Elena Nikolaevna Uspenskaya (1957–2015), a researcher from the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, an outstanding ethnographer and social anthropologist, and a preeminent scholar of the peoples of South Asia. The authors focus on the specialist’s biography and multifaceted personality, her academic and museological heritage, and her contribution into indology.

Keywords: Elena N. Uspenskaya, indology, anthropology, caste system, Hinduism, jāti, Sanskritisation.

To cite: Siim (Moskvitina) A., Burykin A., Popov V., Golant N., Novik A., Sotov A., ‘Pamyati Yeleny Nikolaevny Uspenskoy’ [In Memory of Elena Nikolaevna Uspenskaya], Antropologicheskij forum, 2017, no. 33, pp. 211–227.

URL: http://anthropologie.kunstkamera.ru/files/pdf/033/uspenskaya.pdf