Homo imperii : a history of physical anthropology in Russia / Marina Mogilner.

Introduction: the science of imperial modernity -- Part 1. Paradoxes of institutionalization. Academic genealogy and social contexts of the "atypical science" ; Anthropology as a "regular science" : kafedra ; Anthropology as a network science : society -- Part 2. The liberal anthropology of imperial diversity : apolitical politics. Aleksei Ivanovskii's anthropological classification of the family of "racial relatives" ; "Russians" in the language of liberal anthropology ; Dmitrii Anuchin's liberal anthropology -- Part 3. Anthropology of Russian imperial nationalism. Ivan Sikorsky and his "imperial situation" ; Academic racism and "Russian national science" -- Part 4. Anthropology of Russian multinationalism. The space between "empire" and "nation" ; "Jewish physiognomy", the "Jewish question", and Russian race science between inclusion and exclusion ; A "dysfunctional" colonial anthropology of imperial brains -- Part 5. Russian military anthropology : from army-as-empire to army-as-nation. Military mobilization of diversity studies ; The imperial army through national lenses ; Nation instead of empire -- Part 6. Race and social imagination. The discovery of population politics and sociobiological discourses in Russia ; Meticization as modernization, or the sociobiological utopias of Ivan Ivanovich Pantiukhov ; The criminal anthropology of imperial society -- Conclusion : did Russian physical anthropology become soviet?

It is widely assumed that the "nonclassical" nature of the Russian empire and its equally "nonclassical" modernity made Russian intellectuals immune to the racial obsessions of Western Europe and the United States. Homo Imperii corrects this perception by offering the first scholarly history of racial science in prerevolutionary Russia and the early Soviet Union. Marina Mogilner places this story in the context of imperial self-modernization, political and cultural debates of the epoch, different reformist and revolutionary trends, and the growing challenge of modern nationalism.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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