Open AccessWaldemar Jochelson—a prominent ethnographer of north-eastern Siberia
Author(s) -
Donatas Brandišauskas
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
acta orientalia vilnensia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2424-6026
pISSN - 1648-2662
DOI - 10.15388/aov.2009.3665
Subject(s) - ethnography , indigenous , biography , anthropology , value (mathematics) , history , sociology , ethnology , art history , ecology , machine learning , computer science , biology
Vilnius University This article overviews the biography and ethnographic research of prominent Litvak anthropologist Waldemar Jochelson. It discusses his extensive and influential ethnographic fieldwork among indigenous people in eastern Siberia. The author of the article argues that Jochelson’s methodology, comparative research, theoretical approaches, and scientific results can have a distinctive value in history and, in particular, anthropology and ethnology studies in Lithuania.