List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Editorial Method
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Building Transnational Anthropologies Through Letters
Dmitry Arzyutov, Sergei Kan, and Laura Siragusa
Part 1. Bridges Across the Ocean
1. The Idea: Franz Boas at the Dawn of Transnational Arctic Anthropology
2. Unsuccessful Negotiations: Erwin von Zach and His Unrealized Siberian Trip
3. The Amur World and Anti-Semitism: Berthold Laufer and Gerard Fowke
4. Russian Scholars Needed! Boas Hires Revolutionaries
5. The Yukaghir World: Waldemar and Dina Jochelson
6. The Chukchi World: Waldemar and Sophie Bogoras
7. Double-Faced Janus: Russian Jews and Former Exiles in Siberia
8. A Gift to the Russian Emperor: The Diplomacy of Morris Jesup
9. Siberia as a Part of America: Public Reports in U.S. Newspapers
10. The Jesup North Pacific Expedition: Boas's Academic Report
Part 2. Bridges of Friendship
11. A Precarious Life in New York and the French Riviera: Waldemar and Dina Jochelson
12. Not Quite a Jesupian Anthropologist: Leo and Sarah Shternberg
13. Letters from Prison Cells and Professors' Offices: Waldemar and Sophie Bogoras
Part 3. Bridges to the Field
14. Roads Not Taken: The Kola Peninsula Expedition
15. Encounters at the Bridge: The 1928 International Congress of Americanists
16. You Are a True Indian: Papa Franz and Julia Averkieva (whāni,)
17. Learning from the Soviet Experiment: Comrade Archibald Phinney in Leningrad
18. Visual Dialogues: Julia Averkieva, Archibald Phinney, and Visual Anthropology
19. Constructing Circumpolar Theory: Franz Boas and Waldemar Bogoras
20. Dreaming On: Collaborative Projects in the Arctic
Part 4. The Rickety Bridge to Soviet Russia
21. In Two Minds: Sergei and Elizabeth Shirokogoroff and Aleksandr Forshtein
22. Russia from Afar: The Politics of Franz Boas
Epilogue: Idealism Against Empire
Igor Krupnik
Appendix: Archie Phinney's Wax Cylinder
Svetlana V. Podrezova, Translated by Dmitry Arzyutov
Bibliography
Index