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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 Usually, ethnographic findings were superseded by imperial discourse: Defining regions, conn...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Hofmeister, Alexis (Editor ), Cvetkovski, Roland (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Central European University Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: on the making of ethnographic knowledge in Russia / Roland Cvetkovski
  • Imperial case studies: Russian and British ethnographic theory / Alexis Hofmeister
  • Paradigms. Russian ethnography as a science: truths claimed, trails followed / Alexei Elfimov ; Beyond, against, and with ethnography: physical anthropology as a science of Russian modernity / Marina Mogilner ; Ethnography, Marxism and Soviet ideology / Sergei Alymov ; Ethnogenesis and historiography: historical narratives for Central Asia, 1940s-1950s / Sergey Abashin
  • Representations. Symbols, conventions and practices: visual representation of ethnographic knowledge on Siberia in early modern maps and reports / Maike Sach ; Empire complex: arrangements in the Russian ethnographic museum, 1910 / Roland Cvetkovski ; Learning about the nation: ethnographical representations of children, representations of ethnography for children / Catriona Kelly
  • Peoples. Siberian ruptures: dilemmas of ethnography in imperial situation / Sergey glebov ; Concepts of Ukrainian folklore and the transition from imperial Russia to Stalin's Soviet empire / Angela Rustemeyer ; No love affair: Ingush and Chechen imperial ethnographies / Christian Dettmering ; National inventions: the imperial emancipation of the Karaites from jewishness / Mikhail Kizilov.