Dmitry Konstantinovich Zelenin
Dmitry Konstantinovich Zelenin (Russian: Дми́трий Константи́нович Зеле́нин; 1878–1954) was a Russian linguist and ethnographer.
He led the European Brigade of the Institute of Anthropology and Ethnography, which was formed in 1938 to formulate the list of nationalities to be officially recognised by the Soviet Union.
In November 2004 the Antropologicheskii forum of St Petersburg honoured him with some readings dedicated to him
Publications
- Mezhdunarodnyi iazyk nauki i kul'turnykh snoshenii, Moscow, 1901. (English: The international language of science and cultural relations)
- Russische (Ostslavische) Volkskunde, Berlin und Leipzig, de Gruyter, 1927.
- Kult ongonov v Sibiri, Moscow, 1936. (English: The Cult of Ongons in Siberia)
- Le culte des idoles en Sibérie, Paris : Payot, 1952.
References
- Acta Eurasica, Issue #1, 2005
- Empire of Nations:Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union by Francine Hirsch, Cornell University Press, 2005
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