Polevye issledovaniia V.I. Iokhel'sona

Erich Kasten (Hrsg.)

Erich Kasten studied social and cultural anthropology and taught at the Free University of Berlin. He has conducted extensive field research in the Canadian Pacific Northwest and in Kamchatka and has curated international museum exhibitions. As the first coordinator of the Siberian research group at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, he studied transformations in Post-Soviet Siberia. In ensuing projects for UNESCO and the National Science Foundation, he documented and analyzed indigenous knowledge. Since 2010 he has been the director of the Foundation for Siberian Cultures in Fürstenberg/Havel (Germany). More recently he has also applied himself to developing web archives and Internet interfaces with the purpose of enhancing access and sustaining endangered cultural heritage.

Anna Sirina (Hrsg.)

Anna A. Sirina received her Ph.D. in 2012 in Ethnology and Anthropology at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, where she currently works as a leading research fellow. Since 1981 she has been conducting field work in Siberia and the Russian Far East. She has published extensively on the history of anthropology and on different aspects of the cultures of old-Russian settlers and indigenous peoples in Siberia, in particular Evenk and Even identity, nature use and world view. She is co-editor (with V. Davydov) of the first Russian translation (2017) of S.M. Shirokogoroff's book Social Organization of the Northern Tungus (1929).