book chapter
History, ethnology, and anthropology of the Aleut
Carnegie institution of Washington • (432) • Published In 1933 • Pages: v, 91
By: Jochelson, Waldemar.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The author spent 1909 and 1910 in the Aleutian Islands as leader of the Ethnological Division of the Kamchatka-Aleutian Expedition sponsored by the Imperial Russian Geographical Society of Petrograd. The present work is a summary of Aleut culture, past and present, based on early sources, the author's archaeological research, and his personal contacts with Aleuts and religious and administrative officials stationed in the Aleutian Islands. The author covers the history of the discovery of the Aleutian Islands, the economic and cultural activities of the Aleut, their relationship system, mythology and measures, and their physical characteristics. He includes many photographs of contemporary Aleut life and of modern Aleuts depicting ancient Aleuts. These have not been reproduced for HRAF. This work is of value primarily for its picture of contemporary Aleut life and for its material on kinship. The first two chapters are devoted to the history of the discovery of the Aleutian Islands and a description of the early Aleut. In these chapters the author quotes extensively from Steller's journal and from Veniaminov. Since translations of Steller's journal (See 6: Golder) and of Veniaminov (See 1: Veniaminov) are included in the files, direct quotations from these works are not included here. Jochelson's comments on the early sources, however, are included.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Vocabulary
- Fishing
- Normal garb
- Personal grooming
- Boats
- Kinship terminology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Aleut
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2007
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Arctic and Subarctic
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Leila S. Small ; 1950-1956
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1909-1910
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1909-1910
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Aleutian Islands, Alaska, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Waldemar Jochelson
- This document consists of excerpts
- A continuation of the author's Archaeological investigations in the Aleutian island, 1925. cf. Pref.
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 33010426
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Aleuts