Aboriginal Siberia: as study in social anthropology . With a preface by R. R. Marret

Czaplicka, Maria Antonina

Published by Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1914

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First edition of the author's first book; 8vo, pp. xiv, [2], 374, [2]; 2 folding maps and 16 plates from photographs; original red cloth, gilt-stamped spine; small snag in the spine, else a very good, sound copy with notes on the endpapers of Saul Jarcho, M.D. and with occasional underlining in the text in chapters dealing with shamanism (see below). Jarco (1906-2000) was an American internist and historian of medicine. See Wikipedia (and elsewhere) for a good account. Czaplicka (1884-1921) "was a Polish cultural anthropologist who is best known for her ethnography of Siberian shamanism. Czaplicka's research survives in three major works: her studies in Aboriginal Siberia (1914); a travelogue published as My Siberian Year (1916); and a set of lectures published as The Turks of Central Asia (1918) . [She studied] at the Faculty of Anthropology of the London School of Economics under Charles G. Seligman, and at Somerville College, Oxford under R.R. Marett, graduating from the School of Anthropology in 1912. Marett encouraged her to use her Russian language skills in a review of literature on native tribes in Siberia, which became her book Aboriginal Siberia, published in 1914 . Marett had intended the work reported in Czaplicka's Aboriginal Siberia to be the basis for fieldwork in Siberia. In May 1914, she began such fieldwork, partly funded by the Mary Ewart Travelling Scholarship granted by Somerville College, leading a joint expedition of Oxford University and University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology staff" (Wikipedia).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Aboriginal Siberia: as study in social anthropology . With a preface by R. R. Marret
• Publisher: Clarendon Press, Oxford
• Publication Date: 1914
• Edition: 1st Edition
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