
An Empire of Others
Creating Ethnographic Knowledge in Imperial Russia and the USSR
Central European University Press
Published on 10. January 2014
Book
Hardback
416 pages
978-615-5225-76-5 (ISBN)
Description
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 Usually, ethnographic findings were superseded by imperial discourse: Defining regions, connecting them with ethnic origins and conceiving national entities necessarily implied the mapping of political and historical hierarchies. But beyond these spatial conceptualizations the essays particularly address the specific conditions in which ethnographic knowledge appeared and changed. On the one hand, they turn to the several fields into which ethnographic knowledge poured and materialized, i.e., history, historiography, anthropology or ideology. On the other, they equally consider the impact of the specific formats, i.e., pictures, maps, atlases, lectures, songs, museums, and exhibitions, on academic as well as non-academic manifestations.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Budapest
Hungary
Target group
College/higher education
Academic
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
750 gr
ISBN-13
978-615-5225-76-5 (9786155225765)
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Alexis Hofmeister | Roland Cvetkovski
An Empire of Others
Creating Ethnographic Knowledge in Imperial Russia and the USSR
E-Book
01/2014
1st Edition
Central European University Press
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Roland Cvetkovski | Alexis Hofmeister
An Empire of Others
Creating Ethnographic Knowledge in Imperial Russia and the USSR
E-Book
01/2014
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Persons
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.
Roland Cvetkovski is assistant professor at the Department of Eastern European History in the University of Cologne.
Content
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