Collectiones museorum

Collectiones museorum. Manuscripta Castreniana, Realia II, Ethnographica 1. Travaux ethnographiques de la Société Finno-Ougrienne XXII. 148 p. ISBN 978-952-5667-95-0 (print/hardcover), ISBN 978-952-5667-96-7 (online/pdf). 50 €.

M.A. Castrén considered ethnology as a historical science and an instrument for describing the early periods of Finnish history. On his expeditions, he carried out ethnographic observations and took notes of the dwellings, costumes, way of life, and customs of indigenous Siberian peoples. According to the programme drafted by the Imperial Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, Castrén collected ethnological artifacts for the Ethnographic Museum in Saint Petersburg, and some items for the Ethnographic Museum of the University of Helsinki. The present work concentrates on the collections which describe Castrén’s merits in ethnological studies and museology. The primary sources of this publication are the artefacts in the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) of Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg and the Museum of Cultures / National Museum of Finland in Helsinki.

Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) of the Russian Academy of Sciences has published their collection on the website in the online catalogue.

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Contents

Manuscripta Castreniana: A General Preface to the Series by Juha Janhunen (updated 2019)

Editor’s Foreword by Ildikó Lehtinen

Matthias Alexander Castrén: Collectiones museorum (Museum Collections)

The M.A. Castrén Collections at the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) of the Russian Academy of Sciences (MAE) by Elena Fedorova

Catalogue

The M.A. Castrén Collection at the Museum of Cultures / the National Museum of Finland by Ildikó Lehtinen

Catalogue

Index
Appendix: A List of Museum Items Prepared by M.A. Castrén During the Expedition

Matthias Alexander Castrén

edited by Ildikó Lehtinen

Finno-Ugrian Society

2017

© Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura – Société Finno-Ougrienne – Finno-Ugrian Society & Ildikó Lehtinen

© Музей антропологии и этнографии имени Петра Великого (Кунсткамера) Российской академии наук – Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography
(Kunstkamera) of the Russian Academy of Sciences (MAE) & Elena G. Fedorova

hardcover, PDF

English

ISBN 978-952-5667-95-0 (print/hardcover), ISBN 978-952-5667-96-7 (online/pdf).

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