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143671
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S. M. Shirokogoroff’s book Social Organization of the Northern Tungus was originally published in 1929 in English and later also in Chinese and Japanese languages. It is striking that this monograph has still not been published in Russian. It contains rich ethnographic data on Evenki kin relations, family organization, property relations, and various customs regulating social life. This text demonstrates how ethnographic data are translated into a theory. Compared to the Russian texts of the same period, S. M. Shirokogoroff’s writings were free from Soviet ideological frames. This article discusses the historical and ideological contexts, in which Alexsandr Nikolaevich Gorlin (1878–1939), a literary translator, worked on the Russian translation of S. M. Shirokogoroff’s book in the 1930s, as well as the challenges that the contemporary readers and academic editors of the translation face. It shows that the translation process itself and translation versions are intriguing objects of anthropological research, as they illustrate the temporal dimension of the academic language and facilitate our understanding and interpretation of diverse processes that molded the indigenous peoples’ image in the early Soviet science.
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This article is an endeavour to give a portrait of the outstanding Russian emigrant scholar Sergei Shirokogoroff (1887–1939) as an anthropologist on the basis of his letters to the well-known Soviet sinologist V. M. Alekseev (1881–1951). The letters relate to the period 1926–1932 and were written in the Chinese towns of Amoy (now Xiamen), Canton (Guangzhou), Yunnanfu (now Kunming), and Peking. Today, they are kept in the V. M. Alekseev archive in the St. Petersburg Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The letters touch on themes that the scholars had considered and worked on: general, special, and applied questions of linguistics (the Ural–Altaic language family; Chinese phonetics and hieroglyphics, and the languages of the people of China; and Latinisation of the Chinese script); the anthropology of science, mainly ethnology and sinology; Tungus-Manchurian ethnography; and general theoretical speculation including thoughts on ethnos. This unique source permits one to get acquainted with scientific views that were not reflected in Shirokogoroff’s works and also to understand his personality more deeply.
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