Museum At the End of the World - Encounters in the Russian Far East

Informationen zum Autor Alexia Bloch teaches anthropology at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of Red Ties and Residential Schools: Indigenous Siberians in a Post-Soviet State, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Laurel Kendall is Curator of Asian Ethnographic Collections at the American Museum of Natural History. She is the author of Shamans, Housewives, and Other Restless Spirits, The Life and Hard Times of a Korean Shaman, and Getting Married in Korea: Of Gender, Morality, and Modernity. Klappentext Anthropologists Alexia Bloch and Laurel Kendall tell the story of their journey retracing the nineteenth-century Jesup North Pacific Expedition to the remote easternmost extension of Siberia and the northwest coast of North America. Zusammenfassung Anthropologists Alexia Bloch and Laurel Kendall tell the story of their journey retracing the nineteenth-century Jesup North Pacific Expedition to the remote easternmost extension of Siberia and the northwest coast of North America.

Product details

• Authors: Alexia Bloch, Alexia Kendall Bloch, Laurel Kendall
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.05.2004
• EAN: 9780812218787
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-1878-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > World, Arctic, Antarctic; Russland, UdSSR, Sowjetunion, History - General History, HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union