An empire of others : making ethnographic knowledge in imperial Russia and the USSR / edited by Roland Cvetkovski and Alexis Hofmeister. - Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: on the making of ethnographic knowledge in Russia / Imperial case studies: Russian and British ethnographic theory / Paradigms. Russian ethnography as a science: truths claimed, trails followed / Representations. Symbols, conventions and practices: visual representation of ethnographic knowledge on Siberia in early modern maps and reports / Peoples. Siberian ruptures: dilemmas of ethnography in imperial situation / Roland Cvetkovski -- Alexis Hofmeister -- 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 -- 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 -- 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.



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Ethnology--History.--Russia
Ethnology--History.--Soviet Union


Electronic Books.

GN308 / .E475 2013