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Memory Eternal: Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity through Two Centuries

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Description for Memory Eternal: Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity through Two Centuries Paperback. Combines anthropology and history, anecdote and theory to portray the encounter between the Tlingit Indians and the Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska in the late 1700s and to analyze the indigenous Orthodoxy that developed over the next 200 years. Num Pages: 696 pages, 26 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBWK; 3JH; 3JJ; HRCC8; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 154 x 43. Weight in Grams: 946.

In Memory Eternal, Sergei Kan combines anthropology and history, anecdote and theory to portray the encounter between the Tlingit Indians and the Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska in the late 1700s and to analyze the indigenous Orthodoxy that developed over the next 200 years. As a native speaker of Russian with eighteen years of fieldwork experience among the Tlingit, Kan is uniquely qualified to relate little-known material from the archives of the Russian church in Alaska to Tlingit oral history and his own observations. By weighing the one body of evidence against the other, he has reevaluated this history, arriving ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
696
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9780295993867
SKU
V9780295993867
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About Sergei Kan
Sergei Kan is professor of anthropology and Native American studies at Dartmouth College.

Reviews for Memory Eternal: Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity through Two Centuries
"This extraordinary book…is a model of historical anthropology."
American Historical Review
“[Provides] a vivid picture of the engagements between the actors who together contributed to transforming Tlingit culture: the different Tlingit families, the Russian traders, Orthodox and Presbyterian missionaries, Russian and U.S. settlers, and Tlingit women and men.
American Ethnologist

Goodreads reviews for Memory Eternal: Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity through Two Centuries


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