Sergei Kan is professor of anthropology and Native American studies at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Memory Eternal: Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity through Two Centuries (University of Washington Press, 1999).
7 Ebooks par Sergei Kan
Sergei Kan: Memory Eternal
In Memory Eternal, Sergei Kan combines anthropology and history, anecdote and theory to portray the encounter between the Tlingit Indians and the Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska in the late 1700s a …
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Sergei Kan: Symbolic Immortality
Decades after its initial publication, Symbolic Immortality retains its status as the most comprehensive analysis of the mortuary practices of the Tlingit Indians of southeastern Alaska—or any other …
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€40.99
Sébastien Penmellen Boret & Susan Orpett Long: Death in the Early Twenty-first Century
Focusing on tradition, technology, and authority, this volume challenges classical understandings that mortuary rites are inherently conservative. The contributors examine innovative and enduring ide …
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€139.09
Sergei A. Kan: Lev Shternberg
This intellectual biography of Lev Shternberg (1861-1927) illuminates the development of professional anthropology in late imperial and early Soviet Russia. Shortly after the formation of the Soviet …
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€69.60
Sergei A. Kan & Pauline T. Strong: New Perspectives on Native North America
In this volume some of the leading scholars working in Native North America explore contemporary perspectives on Native culture, history, and representation. Written in honor of the anthropologist Ra …
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€35.93
Steve Henrikson & Sergei A. Kan: Sharing Our Knowledge
Sharing Our Knowledge brings together Native elders, tradition bearers, educators, cultural activists, anthropologists, linguists, historians, and museum professionals to explore the culture, history …
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€45.14
Sergei A. Kan: Maverick Boasian
A Maverick Boasian explores the often contradictory life of Alexander Goldenweiser (1880–1940), a scholar considered by his contemporaries to be Franz Boas’s most brilliant and most favor …
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