Description

Author: Borgoras, W. G. (Wladimir Germanowitsch) (1865-1936)

Publisher: Smithsonian Institution (Offprint)

Pub Date: 1931

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  Stapled binding tight.  Previous owner’s name written and stamped on front cover.  Some pencil markings One small chip at lower front cover near spine edge.  Edge and corner wear.

Notes: Pamphlet.  Reprinted from the Smithsonian Report for 1930, pp. 465-482.  “The principal form of the culture is either the hunting of wild animals or the raising of domesticated ones.  Both forms of economics are based on faunal considerations.” (Borgoras, pg. 472)   Borgoras was an ethnographer by choice, not training.  He spent a good portion of his life in Siberia, studying the Chukchi and other tribes.  He was also an early supporter of Lenin and the early Communists, and those connections allowed him freedom of movement and areas of study.  He was a member of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition.