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

The Museum at the End of the World : : Encounters in the Russian Far East / / Alexia Bloch, Laurel Kendall.

A little over a century ago the American Museum of Natural History launched its ambitious Jesup North Pacific Expedition to learn more about the peoples inhabiting the remote easternmost extension of Siberia and the northwest coast of North America. In The Museum at the End of the World: Encounters...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Bloch, Alexia,
Kendall, Laurel,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]
©2004
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 41 illus.
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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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