Spouses Sergei and Elizaveta Shirokogoroffs: researchers with a "Tungus" heart

Authors

  • Anna A. SIRINA Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia)
  • Vladimir N. DAVYDOV Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia

Keywords:

history of ethnology, Tungus studies, Far East, Sergei and Elizaveta Shorokogoroff, materiality, social organization, positive knowledge, musical ethnography

Abstract

The article discusses the main results of the Tungus studies research of the outstanding Russian and Chinese ethnologist Sergei and his wife Elizaveta Shirokogoroffs. The article is based on archival, museum materials and analysis of published sources. Scientists conducted comprehensive field research among various Tungus-Manchu groups of Zabaikal’e and the Far East of Russia and Northeast China. Shirokogoroff conducted the study of Tungus ethnography in the broader context of the philosophy of history and culture. The authors pay particular attention to the results of the research of the Shirokogoroffs in the study of economics, materiality, social organization, ethnic history, art and musical ethnography.

Author Biographies

  • Anna A. SIRINA, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia)

    Doctor of Historical Sciences, Main Research Fellow, Department of the North and Siberia studies.

  • Vladimir N. DAVYDOV, Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Candidate of Sociology, PhD, Deputy Director for Science, Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia; Research Fellow, Chukotka Branch of North-Eastern Federal University, Anadyr, Russia.

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Published

31-03-2023

Issue

No. 1 (2023): Oriental Institute Journal

Section

MONOGRAPH BY S.M. SHIROKOGOROFF "ETHNOS" AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE FOR MODERN SCIENCE

How to Cite

“Spouses Sergei and Elizaveta Shirokogoroffs: researchers with a ‘Tungus’ heart” (2023) Oriental Institute Journal, (1), pp. 26–41. Available at: https://journals.dvfu.ru/oij/article/view/609 (Accessed: 20 May 2024).