The 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.

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Preface Notes On Language, Transliteration, Personal, Place and Ethnic Names Notes On Referencing Archival and Museum Collections Notes On Translation of German Letters of Waldemar Jochelson, Sarah Shternberg, Berthold Laufer, And Waldemar Bogoras (Sarah Moritz) Abbreviations Introduction. The Boas Bridges to Russia: Building Anthropologies with Letters. By Dmitry Arzyutov, Sergei Kan, And Laura Siragusa PART I. BRIDGES ACROSS THE OCEAN 1. The Idea: Franz Boas and the Dawn of Transnational Arctic Anthropology 2. Unsuccessful Negotiations: A Very Short Story about How Erwin von Zach Did Not Travel to Siberia 3. Encountering the Amur World and Antisemitism: Berthold Laufer and Gerard Fowke 4. Russian Scholars Needed!: Franz Boas Hiring Revolutionaries 5. The Yukaghir World: Waldemar and Dina Jochelson 6. The Chukchi World: Waldemar and Sophie Bogoras 7. The Double-Faced Janus: Being Russian Jews, Former Exiles, and Foreign-Sponsored Anthropologists in Siberia 8. Gifts to Russian Emperor: Maintaining Relations with Russian Academy of Sciences 9. "Siberia is a part of America more truly than it is a part of Asia . . . ": Public Reports in the Pages of The New York Times 10. The Jesup North Pacific Expedition: Franz Boas' Academic Report Part II. Bridges of Friendship 11. Melancholia and Precarious Life in New York and the French Riviera: Waldemar (and Dina) Jochelson 12. Not Quite a Jesupian Anthropologist: Leo (and Sarah) Shternberg 13. Midnight Letters from Prison Cells and Professor's Office: Waldemar (and Sophie) Bogoras Part III. Bridges to the Field 14. Roads Not Taken: The Kola Peninsula Expedition 15. Encounters at the Bridge: The 1928 International Congress of Americanists and the Boas-Bogoras Agreement 16. "You are not a white woman, you are a true Indian": "Papa Franz" and Julia Averkieva (whani,) 17. Learning from the Soviet Experiment: Comrade Archibald Phinney in Leningrad 18. Visual Dialogues: Julia Averkieva, Archibald Phinney, and Their Visual Anthropology Projects 19. Constructing the Circumpolar Theory: Franz Boas and Waldemar Bogoras 20. Dreaming On: Collaborative Projects in the Arctic Part IV. The Rickety Bridge Towards Soviet Russia 21. In Two Minds: Sergei (and Elizabeth) Shirokogoroff and Alexander Forshtein 22. Russia from Afar: Politics of Franz Boas Epilogue. Idealism Against Empire: Franz Boas' Correspondence with His Russian/Soviet Partners. By Igor Krupnik Appendix: Archie Phinney's Wax Cylinder from The Pushkin House in Saint Petersburg. By Svetlana Podrezova Bibliography Notes Editors Index

"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 "Valdimir Bogoras, Lev Shternberg and Sarah Ratner Shternberg, Valdemar Jochelon and Dina Jochelson Brodsky, Berthold Laufer, and Gerald Fowke struggled against the forceful and shifting dominant political powers of Imperial Russia, China, and the United States. Three of them were familiar with Siberia from their time in exile. Together they all created the fields of Arctic and Siberian anthropology. 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 Levy Zumwalt, author of Franz Boas: The Emergence of the Anthropologist