Waldemar Jochelson

The Yukaghir and the Yukaghirized Tungus

Dean Stoddard Worth

Kamchadal Texts Collected by W. Jochelson

New York Academy of Sciences

Louis Israel Dublin

Charles Lane Poor

John Howard Wilson

John James Stevenson

Alexis Anastay Julien

Daniel Strobel Martin

Maurice Fishberg

Raymond Carroll Osburn

January, 1904, to December, 1904

Record of Meetings of the New York Academy of Sciences

As the first significant anthropological descriptions of northeastern Siberia, the publications of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, undertaken in the first years of the 20th century, marked not only the beginning of a new era of research in Russia. Jochelson's work The Yakut, for which he draw on results of his earlier fieldwork in that area, was an important milestone for Russian and North American anthropology that provides to this day a unique contribution to thoroughly understanding the cultures of the northeastern Siberia.

The Yakut

Archaeological Investigations in the Aleutian Islands

Since the 18th century, researchers and scientists have traveled the peninsula of Kamchatka in the Russian Far East. Many of them were of German origin and had been commissioned by the Russian government to perform specific tasks. Their exhaustive descriptions and detailed reports are still considered some of the most valuable documents on the ethnography of the indigenous peoples of that part of the world. These works inform us about living conditions and particular ways of natural resource use at various times, and provide us with valuable background information for current assessment. As the first profound anthropological descriptions of that region, the publications of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, undertaken in the first years of the 20th century, marked the beginning of a new era of research in Russia. They represented a shift of the already existing transnational research networks toward North America. Jochelson’s work The Koryak was an important milestone for Russian and North American anthropology that provides to this day a unique contribution to thoroughly understanding the cultures of the North Pacific rim.

The Koryak

Waldemar Jochelson

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