Abstract. The purpose of this review of our correspondence, accompanied by entries from the “Belarusian Indian Bibliography” of the realities touched upon in it, is to organize the material and stimulate interest in anthropological American studies as a direction of research in Belarus that must develop. A few early letters are cited, and the experience of e-mail exchanges with anthropological themes is considered. When searching for these topics in the correspondence, among the most important are words with the stems anthropology (but the Latin versions anthropology, antropologia, as terms with a wider «study of man» scope, are of little help in it), race, skin. A selection of texts and a list of addressees and correspondents help to understand the scale: the number of our appeals to physical anthropologists is extremely modest, there are few requests and answers on anthropological issues, but revealing several outstanding representatives of the scientific discipline in Belarus, Poland and Russia allowed to add a significant amount of information to the history of Indianistics. The most important anthropologists related to Belarus and mentioned in the correspondence: L. Tsiagaka, I. Salivon, A. Mikulich, T. Chudziński, M. Ćwirko-Godycki, K. Stołyhwo, Ia. Roginskii, M. Levin, I. Silinich. Anthropological organizations among our recipients: the group (department) of anthropology in the system of the Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology (Moscow), Polish Anthropological Society, Anthropological Museum Montané (Havana), Kunstkamera, American Anthropological Association. The most urgent and practical needs for anthropological information arise from the collection of data for the most important projects related to the study of Belarusian Indian relations, especially direct contacts of Belarusians with Indians, when confirmation of Indian biological roots is often required.

Keywords. Physical, biological anthropology, Americanoid race, Indians, American studies, historiography, correspondence, bibliography.

Categories: Зьнешнія адносіны, Культура