29.03.2024

Сборник “UP CLOSE AND FROM AFAR: NEW WORLD ANTHROPOLOGY FROM RUSSIAN AND AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES”

В издательстве ИЭА РАН вышел сборник “Up Close and From Afar: New World Anthropology from Russian and American Perspectives (Proceedings from the 1st and 2nd Russian-American Research Nexus Forums)” (Вблизи и издали: антропология Нового Света с российской и американской точек зрения (материалы I и II форумов Российско-Американского научного центра) под ред. Д.М. Бондаренко, Р. Чакона, Р. Игнатьева.

This volume gathers papers from Russian and American anthropologists and historians dealing with ancient and modern cultures and societies of the New World. Their scope extends from Early Colonial American and European imaginary to the survival and revival of ethnic minorities’ traditional culture in our times. The works collected here were first presented at the 1st and 2nd Russian-American Research Nexus (RARN) Forums that took place in 2020 and 2021, respectively.

Table of Contents:

Richard J. Chacon. Introduction
Sergei Kan. What the “Last Tlingit Potlatch” of 1904 Was Really About
Gleb V. Aleksandrov. The Politics of Intercultural Education: Native-Colonial Relations in the XVII Century New England Language Manuals
Maria A. Filimonova. Anthropology of Disease in the United States in the Last Quarter of the XVIII Century
David H. Dye. Renewing the Watery Realm: Mississippian Beaver Medicine Lodges
J. Christopher Gillam, Richard J. Chacon, Gregory M. Lamb. Pro-Social Anthropology of the Enslaved at Historic Brattonsville, South Carolina: Creating Inclusive Educational Programs and a Regional Descendant Network in the American South and Beyond
Jennifer A. Lucido. Afro-Hispanic Mothers of the Californio Nation: The Gutiérrez Women, Colonial Identity, and African Ethnogenesis in Spanish-Mexican California
Anastasiya V. Kalyuta. The Universe of the Conquistadors: Religious, Juridical and Political Concepts of Hernan Cortes and his Companions-in-Arms Through the Colonial Sources of the Sixteenth Century
Anastasiya A. Kalyuta. What Kind of Teteo Are You? Initial Indigenous Perception of Hernan Cortes and His Companions-in-Arms Through the Early Colonial Sources
Tatiana S. Tereschenko. Images of the Inhabitants of the New World in the European Art of the XVI Century
Christopher Davis. Amazonian Animism and Lichen Phenology: The Role of Pattern Recognition in Predictive Ecological Mastery
Dmitri M. Bondarenko. By Way of Conclusion