Mikluxo-Maklai

[Georges Adassovsky]

At 12:27 -0400 07/01/99, Sibelan Forrester wrote:


>A friend abroad ran into the term Mikluxo-Maklai (as a plural) in an
>article and wanted to be sure she appreciated all its nuances before aiming
>her rhetoric at the discussion.  As often happens with that sort of
>catch-word or catch-name, I thought I had a good sense of who and what it
>meant, but it all evaporated once I tried to convey it, and none of the
>handy reference works I own even mention poor M-M.  If anyone out there can
>give me a nice brief thumbnail sketch, I would be most grateful, and would
>pass it along with full attribution.
>Please reply to me privately at <SFORRES1 at swarthmore.edu>, unless you think
>the list would be entertained by the information.

Miklukho-Maklaj, anthropologist,1846/1888, studies Natural Sciences in
St-PОtersbourg, Philosophy in Heidelberg, Medecine in Leipzig, Compared
Anatomy and Zoology in Vienna.
Begins his extensive travels in 1867, and continue until the year of his death.
Works in South Pacific (Polynesia, Micronesia, Australia, New Guinea,
Admiralty Islands, Malaysia)
Principally known for his work in New Guinea, where he lived among cannibals.
To day, the Institute of Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences of Russia
bears the name of Miklukho-Maklaj. There are also Maklaevskie chtenija at
muzej antropologii i etnografii im. Petra Velikogo (kunskamera) in
St-Petersbourg.


Miklukho-Maklaj, sobranie socinenij, izdatel'stvo akademii nauk SSSR,
Moskva leningrad 1950.

Georges;