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This book documents the voices of scholars working in, with, or about Russia in the context of historical collapse. The brief answers, commentaries, and essays collected here were written in response to the four questions asking how academic lives and practices have changed in the aftermath of 24 February 2022. The original project, which was born in Russia at the end of 2022 and intended to be published in Russia and in the Russian language, was never realised. One year later, we are publishing this collection in Germany in the English language. These are no longer snapshots of the current situation, but historical documents that record structural disruptions, ethical and political uncertainties, and individual emotional and analytical reflections from a year ago. Academia is always both an active subject and a passive object under transformation in any continuing political, social, and economic processes; with this publication we hope to contribute to our understanding of diverse implications of the war and shifts in academic landscapes and public discursive regimes. The book/special issue includes 25 responses by young and well-established scholars and two introductions, written by the editors in late 2022 and 2023 respectively.

This volume is the first in a planned series presenting the previously unpublished Itelmen material in Waldemar Bogoras's Itelmen notebooks from January and February 1901. The original notebooks are held in the Archives of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. This first volume presents the Itelmen language folktales and narratives from the notebooks. This volume includes reproductions of the notebook pages with faithful transcriptions on facing pages, as well as standardized renderings in contemporary Itelmen with interlinear gloss and free translation in English and Russian, and also Bogoras' own notes and additional notes by the editor.

The book consists of oral narratives in the Evenki language, compiled on the basis of the linguistic material collected by Nadezhda Mamontova during several expeditions to the Evenki Municipal District of the Krasnoyarsk Territory in the period from 2011 to 2014. The Evenki (also Ewenki or Evenks) are one of the Indigenous minorities in Russia, with a total population of 37,843 people. The Evenki language is a member of the Tungusic branch of the Altaic language family. The narratives in this book were recorded from the Ilimpii Evenki elders. In the ethnographic literature, the Ilimpii Evenki are known as the Evenki-speaking communities who lived north of the Lower Tunguska River at the time of the establishment of the Soviet regime, i.e. in the territory of the Ilimpii group of settlements of the modern Evenki Municipal District, Krasnoyarsk Territory. Their language belongs to the Northern set of dialects and is less studied in comparison with other dialects of the Evenki language. This book includes 29 texts in the proper Ilimpii dialect (Chirinda, Ekonda and Tutonchany sub-dialects) and four texts in the Kislokan mixed sub-dialect which contains the elements of both Northern and Southern sets of dialects. In terms of folklore genres, the texts are represented by fairy tales, mythological stories, legends, and epic texts.

As the first profound anthropological descriptions of that region, the publications of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, undertaken in the first years of the 20th century, marked the beginning of a new era of research in Russia. Jochelson's work the Yukaghir and the Yukaghirized Tungus, for which he also draws on results of his earlier fieldwork in that area, was an important milestone for Russian and North American anthropology that provides to this day a unique contribution to thoroughly understanding the cultures of northeastern Siberia.

As the first significant anthropological descriptions of northeastern Siberia, the publications of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, undertaken in the first years of the 20th century, marked not only the beginning of a new era of research in Russia. Jochelson's work The Yakut, for which he draw on results of his earlier fieldwork in that area, was an important milestone for Russian and North American anthropology that provides to this day a unique contribution to thoroughly understanding the cultures of the northeastern Siberia.

Since the 18th century, researchers and scientists have traveled the peninsula of Kamchatka in the Russian Far East. Many of them were of German origin and had been commissioned by the Russian government to perform specific tasks. Their exhaustive descriptions and detailed reports are still considered some of the most valuable documents on the ethnography of the indigenous peoples of that part of the world. These works inform us about living conditions and particular ways of natural resource use at various times, and provide us with valuable background information for current assessment. As the first profound anthropological descriptions of that region, the publications of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, undertaken in the first years of the 20th century, marked the beginning of a new era of research in Russia. They represented a shift of the already existing transnational research networks toward North America. Bogoras¿s work The Chukchee was an important milestone for Russian and North American anthropology that provides to this day a unique contribution to thoroughly understanding the cultures of the North Pacific rim.

Bogoras¿s work Chukchee Mythology is one of the publications of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, undertaken in the first years of the 20th century. As the first profound anthropological descriptions of that region, they marked the beginning of a new era of research in Russia. They were an important milestone for Russian and North American anthropology that provide to this day a unique contribution to thoroughly understanding the cultures of the North Pacific rim.

Kniga sostavlena iz statei, napisannykh uchenymi-severovedami i muzeinymi rabotnikami iz Rossii i Germanii. Stat'i osnovany na arkhivnykh, muzeinykh i literaturnykh istochnikakh. Oni okhvatyvaiut shirokii krug voprosov, sviazannykh s polvoi rabotoi Vladimira Iokhel'sona (1855-1937), klassiska rossiiskoi, amerikanskoi i mirovoi etnologii, v Sibiriakovskoi ekspeditsii (1894-1896), a takzhe v ekspeditsiiakh Dzhezupa (1897-1902) i Riabushinskogo (1908-1911). Kniga prednaznachena dlia etnografov, etnologov, antropologov, istorikov nauki.

In this volume the authors discuss the fascinating and eventful biographies as well as the significant scientific work of Waldemar Jochelson, Waldemar Bogoras and Lev Shternberg. They investigate the question of how these men became involved in ethnography towards the end of the 19th century, when they had to spend many years as political exiles in remote parts of northeastern Siberia. This early revolutionary commitment shed light on their empathetic and pioneering methods during their later fieldwork with local people. At the same time they incorporated important ideas from American cultural anthropology gained from their close collaboration with Franz Boas. Their initial aims and methods were also reflected in the ambitious community-oriented research programs that they later had conceptualized and launched together with other colleagues at Leningrad University.

This is the second book in the series of learning and teaching materials on Even language and culture that is on clothing and decorative arts. The given collection of texts provides us with a broad documentation of this intriguing part of Even material culture and art work. The information that is given in Even language with Russian and English translations documents as well the particular dialect that is spoken by the Evens who once made their home in the southern parts of Kamchatka. Besides academic purposes these editions are aimed to sustain the particular local speech and knowledge of the Even people who live in Kamchatka, and to encourage and support their transmission to future generations.