Maxim Grigorievich Levin (1904–1963): 115 years since birth

DOI: 10.33876/2311-0546/2019-48-4/292-302

Authors

  • Margarita M. Gerasimova Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, RAS
  • Alyona V. Dedik (Yuzhakova) Institute for the Humanities, SFU

Keywords:

Levin, paleoanthropology, anthropology, ethnography and ethnogenesis of the peoples of Eastern Siberia and the Far East, methodological concepts of historical and ethnographic regions and economic and cultural types

Abstract

The essay is dedicated to the memory of Maxim Grigorievich Levin, who was deputy director of the Institute of Ethnography of the USSR Academy of Sciences, head of the anthropology sector in the distant 50s of the last century. Levin was a major anthropologist and ethnographer who devoted his life to the study of anthropology and ethnography of the peoples of Siberia and the Far East. He made a significant contribution to the methodology of studying such a complex historical phenomenon as ethnogenesis

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