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Antropologicheskij forum, 2016, no. 29
Nikolai Vakhtin European University at St Petersburg Abstract: This paper deals with the early history of ethnographic education in Petrograd-Leningrad in 1915–1929 and with the struggle that one of the leaders of the process, Vladimir Bogoras (together with his friend and ally Lev Shternberg), led for many years to establish and support this education. At the time, Bogoras was a leading figure in Siberian ethnography, who had spent more than 10 years in remote parts of North-Eastern Siberia as a political exile, and later as a member of the famous Jesup North Pacific Expedition. In shaping the curricula of ethnographic education, he borrowed extensively from his personal experience, insisting that students must spend at least “one ethnographic year [two summers and one winter] in the field,” that the students must learn and use the languages of the people whose cultures they study, and that academic research must go hand in hand with practical “applied” work for the benefit of the people. Bogoras promoted and implicated these principles with amazing energy and persistence, despite the challenges of the time and direct opposition of the authorities. This paper is based on both published and archival sources (primarily from the Bogoras Fund, and the Archives of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg). Keywords: Vladimir Bogoras, history of Arctic anthropology, history of ethnographic education. To cite: Vakhtin N., '“Proekt Bogoraza”: borba za ogon' [The Bogoras Project: The Quest for Fire], Antropologicheskij forum, 2016, no. 29, pp. 125–141. URL: http://anthropologie.kunstkamera.ru/files/pdf/029/vakhtin.pdf |
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