Sergei Kan's Memory Eternal: Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity through Two Centuries, University of Washington Press, 1999, is an anthropological and historical study combining eighteen years of fieldwork among the Tlingit with Russian-language archival research. It covers the 1794 arrival of ten Valaam monks at Kodiak Island, the first organized Russian Orthodox mission in North America, and the long, mutually shaping encounter between Orthodox Christianity and Tlingit culture that followed.
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Major university press academic monograph combining extensive fieldwork with archival research in Russian; used for the 1794 founding of the Russian Orthodox mission on Kodiak Island, Alaska, at the time Russian territory, not yet part of the United States. NotesUsed for the Russian Orthodox mission to Alaska, 1794.
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AuthorSergei Kan
PublisherUniversity of Washington Press
Publication Year1999
Source Typeacademic monograph
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