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Vilnius University This article overviews the biography and ethnographic research of prominent Litvak anthropologist Waldemar Jochelson. It discusses his extensive and influential ethnographic fieldwork among indigenous people in eastern Siberia. The author of the article argues that Jochelson’s methodology, comparative research, theoretical approaches, and scientific results can have a distinctive value in history and, in particular, anthropology and ethnology studies in Lithuania.

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  • The establishment of modern anthropology at the beginning of the 20th century is mostly related to the activities and research of two major scientists: Franz Boas (1858– 1942) in North America and Bronislaw Malinowski (1884–1942) in Great Britain

  • There were several other scientists bringing their own input into the development of anthropology through extensive ethnographic fieldwork research, detailed ethnographical1 descriptions, and museum collections of the indigenous people of north-eastern Siberia

  • The writing of this article was supported by a postdoctoral fellowship granted by the European Union Structural Funds project ‘Postdoctoral Fellowship Implementation in Lithuania’ conducted in the Centre of Social Anthropology at Vytautas Magnus University

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The establishment of modern anthropology at the beginning of the 20th century is mostly related to the activities and research of two major scientists: Franz Boas (1858– 1942) in North America and Bronislaw Malinowski (1884–1942) in Great Britain. There were several other scientists bringing their own input into the development of anthropology through extensive ethnographic fieldwork research, detailed ethnographical1 descriptions, and museum collections of the indigenous people of north-eastern Siberia.

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