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. Jochelson’s work The Yukaghir and the Yukaghirized Tungus, for which he also draws 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 northeastern Siberia. 

Foreword by Thomas Ross Miller:
Reading the ethnographic past in the present: Waldemar Jochelson and the Yukaghir. PDF (119KB)

Waldemar Jochelson.The Yukaghir and the Yukaghirized Tungus. Edited by Erich Kasten and Michael Dürr 
2018, Fürstenberg: Kulturstiftung Sibirien 
with a foreword by Thomas Ross Miller
548 pp., 16 x 22,5 cm
ISBN: 978-3-942883-90-0
Euro 58; Hardcover

Download PDF from American Museum of Natural History, New York

The Yukaghir and the Yukaghirized Tungus

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. Jochelson’s work The Yukaghir and the Yukaghirized Tungus, for which he also draws 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 northeastern Siberia. 

Foreword by Thomas Ross Miller:
Reading the ethnographic past in the present: Waldemar Jochelson and the Yukaghir. PDF (119KB)

Waldemar Jochelson.The Yukaghir and the Yukaghirized Tungus. Edited by Erich Kasten and Michael Dürr 
2018, Fürstenberg: Kulturstiftung Sibirien 
with a foreword by Thomas Ross Miller
548 pp., 16 x 22,5 cm
ISBN: 978-3-942883-90-0
Euro 58; Hardcover

Download PDF from American Museum of Natural History, New York

Waldemar Jochelson

Waldemar Jochelson

The Yukaghir and the Yukaghirized Tungus

Waldemar Jochelson

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. Jochelson’s work The Yukaghir and the Yukaghirized Tungus, for which he also draws 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 northeastern Siberia. 

Foreword by Thomas Ross Miller:
Reading the ethnographic past in the present: Waldemar Jochelson and the Yukaghir. PDF (119KB)

Jochelson, Waldemar