Schedule Number: 34677
Instructor: Alexander King
email: aking@virginia.edu, phone 971-5943

This course provides an introduction to a few of the cultures of Siberia
and the Russian Far East and some of the different representations of them
afforded by Russian and Western anthropology.  It includes some readings
on cultures of Alaska by way of co mparison.  Class meetings will consist
mainly of participation from the students and observation by the
instructor, so come to class having read that day's assignment and ready
to discuss it.  Students are invited to share relevant knowledge of North
Amer ican ethnography as it pertains to the topic being discussed. 
Lectures will be kept to a minimum. 

Requirements: Class participation     25%
              Term Paper     75%          

(Optional: ten minute class presentation on term paper for extra credit.) 
Class participation is a significant part of your grade.  This is an upper
level seminar, and you are expected to contribute to class discussion.  I
have also set up a discussion list on the Internet for this class. 
Contributions are not required, but th ey are part of the reading, and may
come up in class discussion.  Be sure to check your email the evening
before class.  The term paper may be one of two options: either two
ten-page papers, or one 20-page research paper. You must decide which
option you prefer and turn in a paper topic by Oct. 1.  Bibliographies for
either the long paper or the first short paper are due Oct. 10.  If you
write two short papers, the first is due Nov. 8 at 5:00 in Brooks.  A
rough draft of the long paper is due Nov. 15 at 5:00 p.m.  The final draft
is due by Thursday, December 12 at 5:00 pm in Brooks Hall.  Penalties for
late topics and drafts are 5 points per day, unless you make prior
arrangement with me.  Papers will not be accepted after December 12.  You
may turn in rough drafts of short papers, but give me at least 7 days
before the due date to read it and give it back to you for revision.  If
you don't give me a rough draft, I expect you to give it to someone else
to read, at least for spelling, punctuation, gramma r.  The extra credit
is a short, in-class presentation on your paper and will add 5 points to
your paper.  Readings The following texts are required and can be found in
the University of Virginia Bookstore: Slezkine, Arctic Mirrors; Grant, In
the House of Soviet Culture; Wolfson (Komarov), Geography of Survival. 
The reading packet is available at The Copy Shop on Elli ewood (under
Heartwood Books) for $43.55.  Some readings for November will be available
on Clemons Reserve only. 

Fitzhugh & Crowell, Crossroads of Continents is recommended only. 
Assigned readings from this book are in the reading packet.  It is an
excellent comparative introduction to the North Pacific, and it includes
many beautiful, full-color photographs of mat erial culture. 

Also note that all materials used in this course are on Clemons Reserve
for 2 hours. 

**Thur 8/29
Welcome speech.
Representations

**Tues 9/3 
James Clifford (1988) "On Ethnographic Authority," The
Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and
Art. Cambridge: Harvard U P. pp21-54. 

Yuri Slezkine (1994) Arctic Mirrors: Russia and the Small Peoples of the
North. Ithaca: Cornell UP.  Introduction, Chapter 1: pp 1-45. 

**Thur 9/5
Slezkine:  Chapters 2, 3: pp 47-92.

**Tues 9/10
Slezkine: Chapters 4, 5: 95-183.

**Thur 9/12
Slezkine: Chapters 6, 7: 187-263

**Tues 9/17
Slezkine: Chapters 8, 9: 265-335

**Thur 9/19
Slezkine: Chapter 10, Conclusion: 337-395
From Gilyak to Nivkh

**Tues 9/24 
B. O. Dolgikh and M. G. Levin (1962) "Transition from Kinship
to Territorial Relationships in the History of the Peoples of Northern
Siberia." Studies in Siberian Ethnogenesis. H. N. Michael, ed. Toronto: U
Toronto P. [1951].  pp300-13. 

Black, Lydia (1973)  The Nivkh (Gilyak) of Sakhalin and the Lower Amur. 
Arctic Anthropology.  10: 1-110.  Read: Sections II, III, V, VI

**Thur 9/26
Black, Sections VIII-XI, XIII-XV, 

**Tues 10/1 
Grant, Bruce (1995) In the Soviet House of Culture: A Century
of Perestroikas (Princeton: Princeton U P).  Paper Topics Due

**Thur 10/3
Grant

**Tues 10/8
Reading Holiday, i.e. finish Grant.

**Thur 10/10 
Oberg, Kalervo, (1973)  "Social Organization." The Social
Economy of the Tlingit Indians.  Seattle: U Washington P. [1933]. pp23-54. 

McClellan, Catherine (1954) "The Interrelations of Social Structure with
Northern Tlingit Ceremonialsm" Southwestern Journal of Anthropology. 
(10):75-96.  Paper Bibliographies Due

The Jesup Expedition and North-East Asia 

**Tues 10/15 
Stanley A. Freed, Ruth S. Freed, & Laila Williamson (1988) "The American
Museum's Jesup North Pacific Expedition" and Laurel Kendall, "Young Laufer
on the Amur" In Crossroads of the Continents. Fitzhugh, William W. and
Aron Crowell, eds.  Washington, D.C .: Smithsonian.  pp97-104. 

Bogoraz, Vladimir (1925)  Ideas of Space and Time in the Conception of
Primitive Religion.  American Anthropologist.  N.S. 27(2): 205-66. 

**Thur 10/17 
Bogoraz, Vladimir (1904-09)  The Chukchee. Parts I, II, III. 
Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History Vol. XI.  The Jesup
North Pacific Expedition, F. Boas, ed.  Leiden: E. J. Brill.  pp 53-96

**Tues 10/22 
Jochelson, Waldemar (Vladimir Ilyich) (1908)  The Koryak. 
Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History.  Vol. X, Parts I and
II.  The Jesup North Pacific Expedition, F. Boas, ed.  Leiden: E. J.
Brill.  Chapter XI: pp 234-92. 

**Thur 10/24 
deLaguna, Frederica.  1972 Under Mount Saint Elias: the
History and Culture of the Yakutat Tlingit, Part One.  Smithsonian
Contributions to Anthropology, Vol. 7.  Washington D.C.: Smithsonian
Institution Press. pp. 838-73.  

Zuboff, Robert.  (1987) "Mosquito." and Andrew P. Johnson.  "Kaax'achg÷ok
Haa Shuk˝, Our Ancestors: Tlingit Oral Narratives.  Nora Marks Dauenhauer
and Richard Dauenhauer, eds. & trans. Seattle: U Washington P. pp. 72-107.

Central Siberia 

**Tues 10/29 
Shirokogoroff, Sergei Mikhailovich (1929)  Social Organization of the
Northern Tungus. Shanghai with Introductory Chapters Concerning
Geographical Distribution and History of these Groups. Shanghai:
Commercial Press.  Selections

**Thur 10/31 
Pika, Aleksander and Boris Prokhorov (1989) "Soviet Union:
The Big Problems of Small Ethnic Groups."  IWGIA Newsletter.  No. 57. 
pp123-35. 

Balzer, Majorie M.  (1996) "Homelands, Leadership and Self Rule:
Interethnic Relations in the Russian Federation North."  Polar Geography. 

**Tues 11/5 
S. A. Tokarev "On the Origin of the Buryat Nation."  In Michael, ed.
[1953].  pp. 102-18

**Thur 11/7
Anaiban, Zoia V.  (1995) Ethnic Relations in Tuva.  Culture Incarnate:
Native Anthropology from Russia.  M. M. Balzer, ed.  Armonk: M.E. Sharpe. 
[1993].  pp 102-12

Kenin-Lopsan, Mongush B.  (1995)  Tuvan Shamanic Folklore.  In Culture
Incarnate: Native Anthropology from Russia.  M. M. Balzer, ed.  Armonk:
M.E. Sharpe.  [1987].  pp 215-54. 

Friday 11/8
First Short Paper Due

**Tues 11/12
Balzer, Majorie Mandelstam (1993)  Two Urban Shamans:  Unmasking
Leadership in Fin-de-Soviet Siberia.  Perilous States: Conversations on
Culture, Politics, and Nation.  George E. Marcus, ed.  Chicago: U of
Chicago P.  pp131-64. 

**Thur 11/14
Balzer, M. M. (1995)  "The Poetry of Shamanism."  Shamanism in Performing
Arts. M. Hopp˝l, ed.  (Budapest: Academy of Sciences).  pp. 171-87. 

Friday 11/15
Long Paper Rough Draft Due

**Tues 11/19
Turner, Edith (1994) "The Effects of Contact on the Religion of Inupiat
Eskimos."  Circumpolar Religion and Ecology: An Anthropology of the North,
T. Irimoto and T. Yamada, eds. Tokyo: U Tokyo P.  pp 143-61. 

PentikÉinen, Juha (1994) "Shamanism as the Expression of Northern
Identity." In Irimoto & Yamada.  pp 375-401. 

Ecology
**Thur 11/21
Krupnik, Igor.  (1993)  "The Aboriginal Hunter in the Arctic Ecosystem." 
Arctic Adaptations: Native Whalers and Reindeer Herders of Northern
Eurasia.  M Levenson, trans., ed.  Hanover: U P of New England. [1989]. 
pp 216-40. 

**Tues 11/26
Komarov, Boris.  (1980) The Destruction of Nature in Soviet Union. White
Plains, NY: M.E. Sharpe.  Chapters 1, pp 3-19.

Ze'ev Wolfson.  (1994)  Geography of Survival: Ecology in the Post-Soviet
Era.  Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe.  Chapters 2 & 7.  pp. 15-36, 117-24. 

**Thur 11/28
Thanksgiving

**Tues 12/3
Presentations

**Thur 12/5
Turner, Edith  "Center and Periphery: An Inuit Minority Gains the
Center."  Ms. 43pp.

***Thur 12/12:  All Written Work Due at Noon in Brooks Hall.***