Sergei A Kan
Professor
Department of Anthropology
Dartmouth College
United States of America
Biography
Sergei A Kan is currently working as Professor of Anthropology and Native American Studies, Dartmouth College, USA. He has been interested in ways in which Alaska Native (particularly Tlingit) cultures have changed over time while preserving some of their core values and maintaining a distinct indigenous identity. He has also researched the history of American and Russian anthropology, particularly the interaction between Boasian and Russian anthropology from the early 1900s through the 1940s.
Research Interest
cultural anthropology, ethnohistory, photographs as an ethnohistorical document, death and dying, history of anthropology, Native North America (particularly Alaska and Pacific Northwest Coast), Russia, ethnography of the Jewish diaspora, ethnicity and nationalism
Publications
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Sergei A Kan (1999) Memory Eternal: Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity through Two Centuries. University of Washington Press, USA.
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Sergei A Kan (2015) Symbolic Immortality: the Tlingit Potlatch of the Nineteenth Century. University of Washington Press, USA.
