Memory Eternal: Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity through Two Centuries

by Sergei Kan

Book Overview

In Memory Eternal, Sergei Kan combines anthropology and history, anecdote and theory to portray the encounter between the Tlingit Indians and the Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska in the late 1700s and to analyze the indigenous Orthodoxy that developed over the next 200 years. As a native speaker of Russian with eighteen years of fieldwork experience among the Tlingit, Kan is uniquely qualified to relate little-known material from the archives...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295978066
• ISBN13: 9780295978062
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 696 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"