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31.08.2010 | Preliminary results of the joint Russian-Kazakhstan historical-ethnographic expedition following the project "Samuel Dudin - photographer, artist, ethnographer. The materials of the expedition to Kazakhstan of 1899."
A joint Russian-Kazakhstan historical-ethnographic expedition took place from May 26 to June 9 of 2010 within the bounds of the joint project of the MAE RAS and Central State Museum of Republic of Kazakhstan titled "Samuel Dudin - photographer, artist, ethnographer. The materials of the expedition to Kazakhstan of 1899" along the course of Astana, Karaganda, Karkaralinsk, Bayanaul, Pavlodar. The Russian part of the expedition (led by the deputy director of the MAE RAS Efim Rezvan) was comprised of the director of the Department of Central Asia of the MAE RAS, Maryam Rezvan, MAE research officer, prominent specialist in ethnography of Kazakhstan, Inga Stasevich, the director of the Department of Ethnography of Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Caucasus and Crimea of the Russian Ethnographic Museum of Larisa Popova, a leading research officer of the State Russian Museum, Anton Uspenskii, and also an artist-photographer Tatiana Fedorova. The Kazakh part of the expedition (led by the first deputy director of the Central State Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan Beibitkali Kakabaev) was made up of Muslim Tattibaev, the head of the Editorial Publishing Center of the CSM of RK, Napil Bazylhan, the head of the Center of the Source Study and Manuscripts, and Dosymbek Hatran, the head of the Center of Anthropology and Ethnography of the CSM of RK, working according to a special program. Antony Wynn, an English writer-orientalist, also took part in the development of this expedition.
20.07.2010 | Between Turkestan and Tibet: the Salars
On July 19, 2010 Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) of the RAS held the opening of the exhibition titled "Between Turkestan and Tibet: the Salars". The Museum preserves one of the greatest ethnographic collections brought from Xinjiang and Qinghai (the PRC). It represents cultural and ethnical diversity of Chinese Turkestan and the history of its study in Russia. The gathering of this collection is closely linked to the activity of the legendary Russian Committee of Central Asian Studies and to the names of such prominent scholars and travellers as Nikolai M. Przhevalsky, Vsevolod I. Roborovsky, Sergey E. Malov, Edham R. Tenishev and many others.
In August of 2007 in Beijing within the framework of the Year of China in Russian Federation a treaty about scientific partnership between Saint-Petersburg Kunstkamera and the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Academy of Social Sciences of the PRC was concluded. One year later in line with this agreement a historical-ethnographic expedition of the MAE RAS "The Muslims of Chinese Turkestan (Uyghurs of Xinjiang, Salars of Qinghai)" took place on the territory of the Qinghai province and the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the PRC.
13.07.2010 | "Sagpiat of Alaska: Alutiiq material from the Kunstkamera collections"
Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) of the Russian Academy of Sciences presents a new publication titled «Eskimosy alutiiq: Katalog kollekcij Kunstkamery (Sagpiat of Alaska: Alutiiq material from the Kunstkamera collections; SPb.: Nauka, 2010. 464 P.)». In this catalogue for the first time the Museum's unique collection is published dedicated to the traditional culture of the Sagpiat / Aluutiiq people - one of the indigenous peoples of Alaska.
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|  | | UNIQUE ILLUSTRATIVE ARCHIVE NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE The online catalog of collection images from the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) of the Russian Academy of Sciences has been launched. This is one of the most significant archive collections in Russia, containing digitized photo prints, glass plates, negative and positive films, postcards, sketches and other materials which constitute a valuable visual anthropology source since the mid 19th century till nowadays. The project was implemented thanks to the grant from the Ford Foundation. The catalogue is available here | | | |  | | CELESTIAL BOAT. Chinese Mechanical Toy
The World of an Object As early as the 3rd century B.C. Qin Shi-huang, establisher of the Chinese Empire, attending to endless longevity was time after time sending expeditions to the distant seas looking for the islands haunted with the celestial immortals: people - rulers of the time, elements and wonderful creatures, - in pleasure of eternity sailing the seas by unseen boats resistant to any storms. By celestial boats. More | | | |
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