The magazine "Knowledge-Gila" No. 7. 2021

"Carama Tami" - "Moon Man" Nikolai Miklukho -Maclay.
175 years since the birth of N. N. Miklukho-Maclay.
Nikolai Nikolaevich Miklukho-Maklaya, whose 175th anniversary we celebrate this July, became the first European to discover the world of the Papuans of the north-eastern part of the island of New Guinea in the Gulf of Astrolabia (now these places are called the coast of Maclay) He conducted a thorough study of their anthropological type, material culture, economic structure, social life. He showed the failure of the racist views of some anthropologists contemporary to him about the "bunch -like" growth of hair and "roughness" of the skin of the Papuans.
devoted to the study of Southeast Asia for more than fifteen years, he entered the world history not only as an outstanding researcher of Oceania, but also as a fighter for the rights of the indigenous population of New Guinea. Thanks to fundamental non -interference in the way of life and the life of the studied people and respect for local traditions, the scientist gained trust from local residents. He is still remembered there and is called children Macques in honor of him - a large white Russian man. He became part of folklore.
In addition to 160 scientific works published only during his lifetime, the scientist left the descendants an important and still relevant ideological heritage, asserting the equality of races and peoples, the inadmissibility of the violent suppression of crops and the imposition of other people"s stereotypes. His scientific research and published books became the foundation in the confrontation of nationalist ideas and the basis for the education of the young generation on the principles of respect for the cultures of the peoples of the world. In the main topic of today"s number, the main part of which was prepared by the descendant and colleague of the researcher-Nikolai Nikolaevich Miklukho-Maclay-Jr., we are talking about the importance of his work and how it continues today