An empire of others [electronic resource] : making ethnographic knowledge in imperial Russia and the USSR / edited by Roland Cvetkovski and Alexis Hofmeister.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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