1st Edition
An Empire of Others Creating Ethnographic Knowledge in Imperial Russia and the USSR
416 Pages
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Central European University Press
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 Usually, ethnographic findings were superseded by imperial discourse: Defining regions, connecting them with ethnic origins and conceiving national entities necessarily implied the mapping of... Read more
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, Part II: Representations Symbols, Conventions, and Practices, Part III: Peoples Siberian Ruptures, List of Contributors, Index
Biography
Alexis Hofmeister is Research Associate at the Department of History at the University of Basel.
Roland Cvetkovski is assistant professor at the Department of Eastern European History in the University of Cologne.
