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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 th...
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.
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- English
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- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc., 2004
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- 1 online resource (252 pages)
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- 9780812293661, 0812293665, 0812237994, 0812218787, 9780812218787, 9780812218787
- OCLC
- ocn957126577
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-222) and index.
- 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
Subjects
- Kendall, Laurel -- Travel -- Russia (Federation) -- Russian Far East.
- Bloch, Alexia -- Travel -- Russia (Federation) -- Russian Far East.
- Kendall, Laurel -- Travel -- Russia (Federation) -- Russian Far East.
Children's Subject Heading
- Bloch, Alexia -- Travel -- Russia (Federation) -- Russian Far East.
Children's Subject Heading
- Russian Far East (Russia) -- Description and travel.