Franz Boas Papers, Volume 3

Franz Boas (1858–1942) was a professor of anthropology at Columbia University and a public intellectual and advocate for social justice. He is the author of The Mind of Primitive Man, Primitive Art, Anthropology and Modern Life, and Race, Language, and Culture, among other books. Dmitry V. Arzyutov is an assistant professor in the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at the Ohio State University and an honorary research fellow at the University of Aberdeen (United Kingdom). He is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters in English, Russian, French, German, Finnish, and Swedish, dedicated to Siberian and Arctic Indigenous ethnohistory, environmental history, and the history of anthropology. Sergei A. Kan is a professor of anthropology at Dartmouth College. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including A Maverick Boasian: The Life and Work of Alexander A. Goldenweiser (Nebraska, 2023), Sharing Our Knowledge: The Tlingit and Their Coastal Neighbors (Nebraska, 2015), and Lev Shternberg: Anthropologist, Russian Socialist, Jewish Activist (Nebraska, 2009). Laura Siragusa is an assistant professor of teaching in the Department of Linguistics and in the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at the Ohio State University. She is the author of Promoting Heritage Language in Northwest Russia. Alexander Pershai is an associate director of equity at the University of Waterloo (Canada). Pershai has published a book in Russian on gender stratification in idiomatic expressions.

"For a Boas scholar, this work is the central publication that must be consulted for the impact of Boas on shaping and stimulating the intellectual engagement of international scholars."—Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt, author of Franz Boas: The Emergence of the Anthropologist"The research program that Franz Boas initiated for ethnographic research on the peoples of Siberia in the 1890s resulted in major contributions to anthropological knowledge as well as long lasting relationships between Boas and a small group of Russian scholars. The latter were caught between their science and the roiling politics of their homeland. The editors of The Franz Boas Papers, Volume 3 of have produced a painstaking, valuable, and remarkable volume containing letters and little-known publications that capture anthropological, political, and biographical aspects of this long and fruitful Republic of Letters."—Herbert S. Lewis, author of In Defense of Anthropology: An Investigation of the Critique of Anthropology

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsEditorial MethodList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Building Transnational Anthropologies Through LettersDmitry Arzyutov, Sergei Kan, and Laura SiragusaPart 1. Bridges Across the Ocean1. The Idea: Franz Boas at the Dawn of Transnational Arctic Anthropology2. Unsuccessful Negotiations: Erwin von Zach and His Unrealized Siberian Trip3. The Amur World and Anti-Semitism: Berthold Laufer and Gerard Fowke4. Russian Scholars Needed! Boas Hires Revolutionaries5. The Yukaghir World: Waldemar and Dina Jochelson6. The Chukchi World: Waldemar and Sophie Bogoras7. Double-Faced Janus: Russian Jews and Former Exiles in Siberia8. A Gift to the Russian Emperor: The Diplomacy of Morris Jesup9. Siberia as a Part of America: Public Reports in U.S. Newspapers10. The Jesup North Pacific Expedition: Boas's Academic ReportPart 2. Bridges of Friendship11. A Precarious Life in New York and the French Riviera: Waldemar and Dina Jochelson12. Not Quite a Jesupian Anthropologist: Leo and Sarah Shternberg13. Letters from Prison Cells and Professors' Offices: Waldemar and Sophie BogorasPart 3. Bridges to the Field14. Roads Not Taken: The Kola Peninsula Expedition15. Encounters at the Bridge: The 1928 International Congress of Americanists16. You Are a True Indian: Papa Franz and Julia Averkieva (whāni,)17. Learning from the Soviet Experiment: Comrade Archibald Phinney in Leningrad18. Visual Dialogues: Julia Averkieva, Archibald Phinney, and Visual Anthropology19. Constructing Circumpolar Theory: Franz Boas and Waldemar Bogoras20. Dreaming On: Collaborative Projects in the ArcticPart 4. The Rickety Bridge to Soviet Russia21. In Two Minds: Sergei and Elizabeth Shirokogoroff and Aleksandr Forshtein22. Russia from Afar: The Politics of Franz BoasEpilogue: Idealism Against EmpireIgor KrupnikAppendix: Archie Phinney's Wax CylinderSvetlana V. Podrezova, Translated by Dmitry ArzyutovBibliographyIndex