Kan Sergei A.
Дата рождения: March 31, 1953.
Ученая степень, должность: Ph.D. (Anthropology); Professor of Anthropology and Native American Studies, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 03766, USA.
Область научных интересов: culture and history of Alaska Natives (from the Russian Colonial era to the present); history of American anthropology (especially its Native North Americanist aspect); history of Russian anthropology (especially of the Jesup Expedition and “The Leningrad School” eras and its relationship with American anthropology of Franz Boas).
Основной регион исследований: Alaska; Pacific Northwest Coast; Siberia/Russian Far East.
Список публикаций:
Monographs:
2016 — Symbolic Immortality. 2nd edition, revised, expanded, with a new epilogue. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
2013 — A Russian-American Photographer in Tlingit Country: Vincent Soboleff: in Alaska. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. The 2015 Western History Association Joan Patterson Kerr Award for the Best Illustrated Book on the American West.
1999 — Memory Eternal: Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity Through Two Centuries. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
1989 — Symbolic Immortality: the Tlingit Potlatch of the Nineteenth Century. Washington, D.C Smithsonian Institution Press. The 1990 Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award.
1985 — Fr. Anatolii Kamenskii. Tlingit Indians of Alaska. [1906]. Translation from Russian, with an Introduction and Supplementary Material. The Rasmuson Library Historical Translation Series. Vol. II. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press.
Edited Volumes:
In Press — Handbook of North American Indians, vol. I. Part 2 (”Culture Areas”). Ed. by Igor Krupnik (volume editor). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. Forthcoming in 2019.
2015 — Sharing Our Knowledge: the Tlingit and Their Coastal Neighbors. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
2006 — Perspectives on Native North America: Cultures, Histories, and Representations. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. Co-edited with Pauline Turner Strong.
2004 — Coming to Shore: Northwest Coast Ethnology, Traditions and Visions. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. Co-edited with Marie Mauze and Michael Harkin.
2001 — Strangers to Relatives: The Adoption and Naming of Anthropologists in Native North America. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Edited Special Issues of Journals:
2013 — Collection of Papers “Individuals and Groups of Mixed Russian-Native Parentage in Siberia, Russian America, and Alaska.” Ethnohistory 60 (3): 351-438.
1997 — Co-edited (with Pamela Stern and George Wenzel) Power, Resistance, and Security: Papers in Honor of Richard G. Condon et. al. Special Issue of Arctic Anthropology, 1997, vol. 34 (1) (250 pp.).
1996 — Co-edited (with Michael Harkin) Native American Women’s Responses to Christianity.
Special Issue of Ethnohistory, 1996, vol. 43 (4) (160 pp.).
1987 — Collection of papers from the symposium «Native Cultures and Christianity in Northern North America.» Arctic Anthropology 24 (1):1-66 (66 pp.).
Articles
In Press — Raymond D. Fogelson’s Paper «The Ethnohistory of Events and Non-Events.» Ethnohistory. Forthcoming in January 2019.
In Press — Co-authored (with Michael Harkin) “Northwest Coast Ethnology Since the Late
1980s.” Handbook of North American Indians, vol. I. Ed. by Igor Krupnik. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. Forthcoming in 2019.
In Press — (with Maurice Crandall, Moises Gonzales, Enrique R. Lamadrid, Kimberly J. Marshall and Jose Moctezuma Zamarrón) “ ‘Southwest -2’: Non-Pueblo and Northern Mexico.”). Handbook of North American Indians, vol. I. Ed. by Igor Krupnik. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. Forthcoming in 2019.
2018 — «Unites States, Anthropology.» International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. pp. 6280-6309. Ed. by Hilary Callan. Wiley-Blackwell.
2018 — Was Lev Shternberg Just Another Classical Evolutionist? Jochelson, Bogoras and Shternberg: A Scientific Exploration of the Russian Far East and the Shaping of Soviet Ethnography. Ed. by Erich Kasten. Kulturschiftung Sibirien: Furstenberg/Havel, Germany.
2018 — Iuliia Averkieva i Frantz Boas: Vzaimnaia Simpatiia i Ideologicheskie Raznoglasiia
[Julia Averkieva and Franz Boas: Mutual Affection and Ideological Disagreements].
Etnograficheskoe Obozrenie, 3: 70-79.
2016 — (Co-authored with Dmitry Arzyutov) The Saga of the L. H. Morgan Archive, or How an American Marxist Helped Make a Bourgeois Anthropologist the Cornerstone of Soviet Ethnography. Pp. 149-220 In Histories of Anthropology Annual, vol. 10. Ed. by Regna Darnell and Frederick Gleach. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.
2015 — Introduction. Pp. 1-38 In Sharing Our Knowledge: the Tlingit and Their Coastal Neighbors. Ed. by Sergei Kan. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
2015 — Mark Jacobs Jr./Gusht’eihéen: My Tlingit Teacher, Friend, and Older Brother. Pp. 97-117 In Sharing Our Knowledge: the Tlingit and Their Coastal Neighbors. Ed. by Sergei Kan. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
2013 — Alexander A. Goldenweiser. Encyclopedia of Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology. Vol. I: 348-351. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE. Ed. by R. Jon McGee and Richard L. Warms.
2013 — Robert H. Lowie. Encyclopedia of Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology. Vol. I: 493-495. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE. Ed. by R. Jon McGee and Richard L. Warms.
2013 — Introduction to a collection of papers entitled “Individuals and Groups of Mixed Russian-Native Parentage in Siberia, Russian America, and Alaska.” Ethnohistory 60(3): 351-361.
2013 — Sergei Ionovich Kostromitinov (1854-1915) or «Colonel George Kostrometinoff»:
from a Creole Teenager to the Number One Russian-American Citizen of Sitka. Ethnohistory 60(3): 385-402.
2008 — Evolutionism and Historical Particularism at the St. Petersburg Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography. Museum Anthropology 31(1): 28-46.
2006 — Introduction (co-authored with Pauline Turner Strong). Pp. XI-XLII In Perspectives on Native North America: Cultures, Histories, and Representations. Sergei Kan and Pauline Turner Strong, eds. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
2006 — Events and Nonevents on the Tlingit/Russian/American Colonial Frontier, 1802-1879. Pp. 310-327 In Perspectives on Native North America: Cultures, Histories, and Representations. Sergei Kan and Pauline Turner Strong, eds. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
2005 — “Potlatch.” Pp. 728-734 in Encyclopedia of American Indian Religious Traditions. Suzanne J. Crawford and Dennis F. Kelley, eds. ABC CLIO.
2004 — It’s Only Half a Mile from Savagery to Civilization: American Tourists and Southeastern Alaska Natives in the Late Nineteenth Century. Pp. 201-220 In Coming to Shore: Northwest Coast Ethnology, Traditions and Visions. Marie Mauzé, Michael Harkin, and Sergei Kan, eds. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
2004 — Introduction (co-authored with Marie Mauzé and Michael Harkin. Pp. xi-xxxviii In Coming to Shore: Northwest Coast Ethnology, Traditions and Vision. Marie Mauzé, Michael Harkin, and Sergei Kan, eds. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
2003 — Bilingual/Bicultural Interpreters and Informants of the Jesup Expedition Era. Laurel Kendall and Igor Krupnik, eds. Pp. 185-197 In Constructing Cultures Then and Now: Celebrating Franz Boas and the Jesup North Pacific Expedition. Contributions to Circumpolar Anthropology 4. Arctic Studies Center. Smithsonian Institution.
2001 — Friendship, Family, and Fieldwork: One Anthropologist’s Adoption by Two Tlingit Families. Pp. 185-217 In Strangers to Relatives: The Adoption and Naming of Anthropologists in Native North America. Sergei Kan, ed. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
2001 — Editor’s Introduction. Pp. 1-27 In Strangers to Relatives: The Adoption and Naming of Anthropologists in Native North America. Sergei Kan, ed. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
2001 — Nineteenth-Century Russian Orthodox Missionaries at Home and Abroad: the Case of Siberian and Alaskan Indigenous Peoples. Pp. 173-200 In Of Religion and Identity: Missions, Conversion, and Tolerance in the Russian Empire. Robert Geraci and Michael Khodarkovsky, eds. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
1996 — Introduction. (Co-authored with Michael Harkin). Native American Women’s Responses to Christianity. Special Issue of Ethnohistory , 1996, vol. 43 (4):563-571.
1996 — Clan Mothers and Godmothers: Tlingit Women and Russian Orthodox Christianity, 1840-1940. Native American Women’s Responses to Christianity. Special Issue of Ethnohistory, vol. 43(4): 613-641. Ed. by Michael Harkin and Sergei Kan.
1991 — Shamanism and Christianity: Modern-day Tlingit Elders Look at the Past. Ethnohistory 38 (4): 363-387. [Reprinted in Across the Boundaries of Belief: Contemporary Issues in the Anthropology of Religion. Ed. by M. Klass and M. Weisgrau. Westview Press. 1999. Also reprinted in American Nations: Encounters in Indian Country, 1850 to the Present. Ed. By F. Hoxie et. al. New York: Routledge. 2001].
1991 — Russian Orthodox Missionaries and the Tlingit Indians of Alaska, 1880-1890. Pp. 127-160 in New Dimensions in Ethnohistory. Papers of the Second Laurier Conference on Ethnohistory and Ethnology. Ed. by B. M. Gough and L. Christie. Mercury Series, Canadian Ethnology Service Paper No. 120. Ottawa: Canadian Museum of Civilization.
1990 — The Sacred and the Secular: Tlingit Potlatch Songs Outside the Potlatch. American Indian Quarterly 14 (4):355-366.
1990 — Recording Native Culture and Christianizing the Natives — Russian Orthodox Missionaries in Southeastern Alaska. Pp. 298-313 in Russia in North America: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Russian America. Ed. by R. A. Pierce. Kingston, Ontario and Fairbanks, Alaska: The Limestone Press.
1989 — Cohorts, Generations, and Their Culture: the Tlingit Potlatch in the 1980s. Anthropos 84:405-422.
1989 — Why the Aristocrats Were ‘Heavy’ or How Ethnopsychology Legitimized Inequality among the Tlingit. Dialectical Anthropology 14 (2):81-94.
1988 — Russian Orthodox Missions. In Handbook of North American Indians, vol. IV: 506-521. Ed. by W. E. Washburn. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
1987 — Memory Eternal: Russian Orthodoxy and the Tlingit Mortuary Complex. Arctic Anthropology 24 (1):32-55.
1986 — The Nineteenth-century Tlingit Potlatch: a New Perspective. American Ethnologist 13 (2):191-212. American Society for Ethnohistory 1987 Robert F. Heizer Prize for the Best Article in the Field.
1985 — Russian Orthodox Brotherhoods among the Tlingit: Missionary Goals and Native Response. Ethnohistory 32 (3):196-223.
Проекты:
Books:
— Alexander A. Goldenweiser: An Intellectual Biography of a Rebellious Boasian.
— Sitka, Alaska Through the Lens of William E. Merrill, 1897-1929.
— A Monograph (or a collection of interrelated essays) on the cultural history of the Russian/Native Alaskan (Creole) community of Sitka, 1867-1967.
Edited Volumes:
Preparing for publication one of the volumes in a multi-volume series The Franz Boas Papers: a Documentary Edition. This particular volume deals with Boas’s correspondence with his Russian colleagues and Russian officials. (Director: Regna Darnell, Professor of Anthropology, The University of Western Ontario. Publisher: University of Nebraska Press).
Articles
“Setting the Record Straight: Franz Boas, the Soviet Union and the Communist Party USA.”