Describing Ethnography of a Borderland Province: Mary Holderness in the Crimea
Journal: Izvestia of the Ural federal university Series 2 Humanities and Arts
Year: 2020

This paper addresses travelogues by English author Mary Holderness who spent the years 1816–1820 in the settlement of Karagoz in the Crimean Peninsula. Scholarship has used this source but rarely, mostly for cultural-anthropological facts. This paper provides an integral analysis of these travel writings as the most detailed account of Crimean ethno-confessional communes from the period. The works by Holderness are studied in the context of contemporary Western knowledge of the Crimea and specif