The Museum at the End of the World : Encounters in the Russian Far East

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bloch, Alexia
Other Authors: Kendall, Laurel
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc., 2004.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Kendall, Laurel.
Bloch, Alexia.
Bloch, Alexia > Travel > Russia (Federation) > Russian Far East.
Kendall, Laurel > Travel > Russia (Federation) > Russian Far East.
Travel.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
Russia (Federation) > Russian Far East.
Siberie d'Extrême-Orient (Russie) > Descriptions et voyages.
Russian Far East (Russia) > Description and travel.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface: The Museum at the End of Whose World?
  • Note on Transliteration
  • Map of the Russian Far East
  • 1. Across the Bering Strait and Through the Looking Glass
  • 2. Chukotka: At the Edge of a Crumbling Empire
  • 3. Magadan: The End of History
  • 4. Anadyr: Tundra Town in Pastel
  • 5. Khabarovsk: Embroidering the Border
  • 6. Petropavlovsk: Once Almost a Boom Town
  • 7. Esso and the Way There
  • 8. In the Entourage of the Fisher King
  • 9. Again Petropavlovsk
  • Epilogues
  • Notes
  • Selected Sources
  • Index

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