Vladimir Jochelson
Vladimir Jochelson · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Russian ethnographer known for studies of Siberian peoples
1855, Vilnius, Russian Empire (now Lithuania) — 1937, New York City, United States
Russian Empire (Siberia) · United States
Vladimir Jochelson is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Russian ethnographer known for studies of Siberian peoples
Jochelson was a pioneering ethnographer of the indigenous peoples of northeastern Siberia, whose fieldwork on the Yukaghir, Koryak and Aleut — much of it as part of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition — remains foundational. A former revolutionary exiled to Siberia, he turned exile into scholarship, later settling in the United States. He was born into a Jewish family in Vilnius.
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Russian ethnographer known for studies of Siberian peoples
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Anthropology
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