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Antropologicheskij forum, 2016, no. 29

 

IN LIEU  OF AN INTRODUCTION

Dmitry V. Arzyutov

Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences
3 Universitetskaya Emb., St Petersburg, Russia
University of Aberdeen, School of Social Sciences
Edward Wright Building, Aberdeen, AB24 3QY, Scotland, UK
darzyutov()gmail.com

Nikolai Vakhtin

European University at St Petersburg
3 Gagarinskaya Str., St Petersburg, Russia
nvakhtin()gmail.com

Abstract: This essay by Dmitry Arzyutov and Nikolai Vakhtin introduces a collection of papers dedicated to the 150th anniversary of Vladimir Bogoras. It presents the short biography and bibliography of Bogoras. It discusses his (and his colleague Lev Shternberg’s) contribution to the formation of Arctic (Siberian) anthropology in St Petersburg, and the ambivalent character of Bogoras’ personality, a “two-faced Janus” as he called himself.

Keywords: Vladimir Bogoras, St Petersburg school of ethnography, Arctic anthropology.

To cite: Arzyutov D., Vakhtin N., 'Vmesto vvedeniya' [In lieu of an Introduction], Antropologicheskij forum, 2016, no. 29, pp. 101–108.

URL: http://anthropologie.kunstkamera.ru/files/pdf/029/arzyutov_vakhtin.pdf