The Fate of a Person and the Fate of a Book: Nikolai Schnakenburg and the Volume “The Soviet Eskimos”
The article describes the biography of the young ethnographer Nikolai Borisovich Schnakenburg (1907–1941), a student of Vladimir Bogoras, who worked in Chukotka in 1930–1933 and was killed at the war frontlines near Leningrad in 1941. Until now, his life and work remained understudied. The article further examines the question of the authorship of an unpublished manuscript “The Soviet Eskimos”, the first comprehensive report on the Siberian Yupik people. The article is based on the documents discovered in the family archives of Schnakenburg’s descendants.
Authors
- Nikolai Vakhtin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4011-2141)
Institutions
- European University at Saint Petersburg (RU)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Etnograficheskoe obozrenie
- Published
- 2024-11-28
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.31857/s0869541524050109
- Primary Topic
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00