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An Empire of Others : Creating Ethnographic Knowledge in Imperial Russia and the USSR /

Ethnographers helped to perceive, to understand and also to shape imperial as well as Soviet Russia's cultural diversity. This volume focuses on the contexts in which ethnographic knowledge was created. Usually, ethnographic findings were superseded by imperial discourse: Defining regions, conn...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Abashin, Sergey (Contribuidor), Alymov, Sergei (Contribuidor), Cvetkovski, Roland (Contribuidor, Editor ), Dettmering, Christian (Contribuidor), Elfimov, Alexei (Contribuidor), Glebov, Sergey (Contribuidor), Hofmeister, Alexis (Contribuidor, Editor ), Kelly, Catriona (Contribuidor), Kizilov, Mikhail (Contribuidor), Mogilner, Marina (Contribuidor), Rustemeyer, Angela (Contribuidor), Sach, Maike (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, [2022]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction: On the Making of Ethnographic Knowledge in Russia
  • Imperial Case Studies: Russian and British Ethnographic Theory
  • Part I. Paradigms
  • Russian Ethnography as a Science: Truths Claimed, Trails Followed
  • Beyond, against, and with Ethnography: Physical Anthropology as a Science of Russian Modernity
  • Ethnography, Marxism, and Soviet Ideology
  • Ethnogenesis and Historiography: Historical Narratives for Central Asia in the 1940s and 1950s
  • Part II. Representations
  • Symbols, Conventions, and Practices: Visual Representation of Ethnographic Knowledge on Siberia in Early Modern Maps and Reports
  • Empire Complex: Arrangements in the Russian Ethnographic Museum, 1910
  • Learning about the Nation: Ethnographic Representations of Children, Representations of Ethnography for Children
  • Part III. Peoples
  • Siberian Ruptures: Dilemmas of Ethnography in an Imperial Situation
  • Concepts of Ukrainian Folklore and the Transition from Imperial Russia to Stalin's Soviet Empire
  • No Love Affair: Ingush and Chechen Imperial Ethnographies
  • National Inventions: The Imperial Emancipation of the Karaites from Jewishness
  • List of Contributors
  • Index