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Book Explorations of Kamchatka

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  • Author : Stepan Petrovič Krašeninnikov
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1972-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780295959566
  • Pages : 410 pages

Download or read book Explorations of Kamchatka written by Stepan Petrovič Krašeninnikov and published by . This book was released on 1972-01-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Explorations of Kamchatka North Pacific Scimitar

Download or read book Explorations of Kamchatka North Pacific Scimitar written by Stepan Petrovich Kraseninnikov and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Explorations of Kamchatka  North Pacific Scimitar

Download or read book Explorations of Kamchatka North Pacific Scimitar written by Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov and published by Oregon Historical Society Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Krasheninnikov's report to the Russian Imperial Government of his 1735 journey to explore eastern Siberia.

Book Explorations of Kamchatka  North Pacific Soimitar

Download or read book Explorations of Kamchatka North Pacific Soimitar written by Stepan Petrovič Krašeninnikov and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Eplorations of Kamchatka  North Pacific Scimitar

Download or read book Eplorations of Kamchatka North Pacific Scimitar written by Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Explorations of Kamchatka  North Pacific Scitimar

Download or read book Explorations of Kamchatka North Pacific Scitimar written by Stepan P. Krašeninnikov and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Before Boas

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  • Author : Han F. Vermeulen
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 2015-07
  • ISBN : 0803277407
  • Pages : 760 pages

Download or read book Before Boas written by Han F. Vermeulen and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2015-07 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of anthropology has been written from multiple viewpoints, often from perspectives of gender, nationality, theory, or politics. Before Boas delves deeper into issues concerning anthropology’s academic origins to present a groundbreaking study that reveals how ethnography and ethnology originated during the eighteenth rather than the nineteenth century, developing parallel to anthropology, or the “natural history of man.” Han F. Vermeulen explores primary and secondary sources from Russia, Germany, Austria, the United States, the Netherlands, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, France, and Great Britain in tracing how “ethnography” originated as field research by German-speaking historians and naturalists in Siberia (Russia) during the 1730s and 1740s, was generalized as “ethnology” by scholars in Göttingen (Germany) and Vienna (Austria) during the 1770s and 1780s, and was subsequently adopted by researchers in other countries. Before Boas argues that anthropology and ethnology were separate sciences during the Age of Reason, studying racial and ethnic diversity, respectively. Ethnography and ethnology focused not on “other” cultures but on all peoples of all eras. Following G. W. Leibniz, researchers in these fields categorized peoples primarily according to their languages. Franz Boas professionalized the holistic study of anthropology from the 1880s into the twentieth century.

Book In Search of Adventure

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  • Author : Bruce Northam
  • Publisher : CCC Publishing
  • Release : 1999-03-01
  • ISBN : 1888729309
  • Pages : 460 pages

Download or read book In Search of Adventure written by Bruce Northam and published by CCC Publishing. This book was released on 1999-03-01 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These short travel essays from around the globe get to the heart of what the words travel and adventure really mean. In Search of Adventure explores the good, the bad, and the ugly of what traveling the world has to offer. The “Trampled Underfoot” section features tales of woe on the road—the worst of the worst, or making the best of the worst. In “Global Issues & Viewpoints,” authors explore the changing world, oppressive governments, and the homogenizing of world cultures. From warm and inviting to raw and shocking, these nonfiction travel pieces present disparate viewpoints on the diverse world in which we live and leave no emotion untouched.

Book The Pacific Historical Review

Download or read book The Pacific Historical Review written by Anna Marie Hager and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Unfabling the East

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  • Author : Jürgen Osterhammel
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2019-11-19
  • ISBN : 0691196478
  • Pages : 692 pages

Download or read book Unfabling the East written by Jürgen Osterhammel and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the long eighteenth century, Europe's travelers, scholars, and intellectuals looked to Asia in a spirit of puzzlement, irony, and openness. In this panoramic and colorful book, Jürgen Osterhammel tells the story of the European Enlightenment's nuanced encounter with the great civilizations of the East, from the Ottoman Empire and India to China and Japan. Here is the acclaimed book that challenges the notion that Europe's formative engagement with the non-European world was invariably marred by an imperial gaze and presumptions of Western superiority. Osterhammel shows how major figures such as Leibniz, Voltaire, Gibbon, and Hegel took a keen interest in Asian culture and history, and introduces lesser-known scientific travelers, colonial administrators, Jesuit missionaries, and adventurers who returned home from Asia bearing manuscripts in many exotic languages, huge collections of ethnographic data, and stories that sometimes defied belief. Osterhammel brings the sights and sounds of this tumultuous age vividly to life, from the salons of Paris and the lecture halls of Edinburgh to the deserts of Arabia, the steppes of Siberia, and the sumptuous courts of Asian princes. He demonstrates how Europe discovered its own identity anew by measuring itself against its more senior continent, and how it was only toward the end of this period that cruder forms of Eurocentrism--and condescension toward Asia--prevailed.

Book Exploring and Mapping Alaska

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  • Author : Alekseĭ Vladimirovich Postnikov
  • Publisher : University of Alaska Press
  • Release : 2015-06-15
  • ISBN : 1602232512
  • Pages : 545 pages

Download or read book Exploring and Mapping Alaska written by Alekseĭ Vladimirovich Postnikov and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russia first encountered Alaska in 1741 as part of the most ambitious and expensive expedition of the entire 18th century. During the next 126 years the struggle to develop and refine geographic knowledge of the vast region comprising northeastern Asia, the North Pacific, and Alaska met with many obstacles, including inclement weather, the chain of supply over great distances, the need to train expert navigators and cartographers, and false leads due to spurious voyage accounts. For much of this era, critical geographic knowledge was kept as a state secret in Russia and not shared, even with the very navigators and cartographers who were developing much needed maps and navigational aids. Despite this, a rich cartographic heritage developed to be carried forward into the American era. The traditional Russian cartographic methods were applied to new discoveries in Siberia and beyond. Early fur traders and explorers utilized this system which for a time co-existed with the new cartographic methodology utilized in Europe and adopted for use by the Russia of Peter the Great. It became an age of scientific exploration. Great Britain, France, Spain, but especially Russia, sent expeditions. An increasingly complete knowledge of the coasts of North America, with forays into the interior, emerged. Postnikov describes the explorations and richly illustrates how the resulting maps evolved and contributed to the world’s knowledge of one of the last great regions of the world to be explored.

Book Explore Shamanism

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  • Author : Alby Stone
  • Publisher : Heart of Albion
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 1872883680
  • Pages : 207 pages

Download or read book Explore Shamanism written by Alby Stone and published by Heart of Albion. This book was released on 2003 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of Northwest Anthropology

Download or read book Journal of Northwest Anthropology written by Roderick Sprague and published by Northwest Anthropology. This book was released on with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old World Infectious Diseases in the Plateau Area of North America During the Protohistoric: Rethinking Our Understanding of "Contact" in the Plateau - Peter N. Jones 1 Cultural Resource Management in the Pacific Northwest: Working within the Process -Dennis Griffin and Thomas E. Churchill Permitting Archaeology in Washington State: A Review of the First 25 years - Stephenie Kramer A Buried Promise: The Palus Jefferson Peace Medal - Cheryl Gunselman and Roderick Sprague Archaeological Evidence of Mountain Beaver (AplodontJa rufa) Mandibles as Chisels and Engravers on the Northwest Coast - R. Lee Lyman and Jamey Zehr JOURNAL OF NORTHWEST ANTHROPOLOGY Publication Style Guide

Book Tsunamis

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  • Author : Eddie N. Bernard
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9780674031739
  • Pages : 482 pages

Download or read book Tsunamis written by Eddie N. Bernard and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's foremost experts write about the dynamics of geophysical processes involved in tsunami generation, propagation, and inundation, along with the statistical and geophysical properties of tsunami recurrence, and their application to tsunami forecasts and warnings.

Book Eastern Destiny

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  • Author : G. Patrick March
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 1996-10-30
  • ISBN : 0313390142
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book Eastern Destiny written by G. Patrick March and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1996-10-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eastern Destiny: Russia in Asia and the North Pacific is the history of a remarkable eastern expansion under tsars, emperors, and commissars. The narrative spans the period from the Mongol conquest in the 13th century to the Cold War of the 20th. An intense anxiety for security, owed in large part to the Mongol incursion, would impel the eastern Slavs relentlessly toward territorial aggrandizement. Over the centuries, the modest Grand Duchy of Moscow in Eastern Europe was so successful that it grew into the massive Russian Empire, whose lands stretched from the Holy Roman Empire in Central Europe to the edge of British power in the wilds of North America. Eastern Destiny: Russia in Asia and the North Pacific is a saga of entrepreneurs pressing ever-eastward for the wealth of pelts, whether sable or sea otter. It features the arrival of the servants of the state who ensured control of these lands and negotiated—whether subtly or otherwise—with the nations of East Asia. Also chronicled are the voluntary release by treaty of Alaska and the northern Kurils, the humiliating temporary loss of southern Sakhalin and the ultimate dismemberment of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Despite such losses, the Russian Federation still comprises the most expansive country on earth, most of whose territory is the result of Asian conquests dating back 400 years.

Book Ceramics in Circumpolar Prehistory

Download or read book Ceramics in Circumpolar Prehistory written by Peter Jordan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sheds light on the motivations that lay behind the adoption of pottery, the challenges that had to be overcome.

Book Russian Penetration of the North Pacific Ocean  1700 1799

Download or read book Russian Penetration of the North Pacific Ocean 1700 1799 written by Basil Dmytryshyn and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: