An Empire of Others - Creating Ethnographic Knowledge in Imperial Russia and the USSR (Hardcover)

Ethnographers helped to perceive, understand and to also to Russia's remarkable cultural diversity. This book focuses on the specific contexts as ethnographic knowledge was created in modern Russia, showing readers how tsarist and Soviet ethnographers simultaneously defined both their subjects and their own expertise over a roughly three-hundred year period.

The essays address fields into which ethnographic knowledge poured military, mission, history, anthropology, literature etc. as well as broadening the understanding of knowledge formats pictures, maps, atlases, plays, tape recordings, lectures, films, posters, museums, exhibitions etc. noticeably exerting an influence on imperial identities

General

Imprint:	Central European University Press
Country of origin:	Hungary
Release date:	2014
First published:	April 2014
Editors:	Roland Cvetkovski (Assistant Professor) • Alexis Hofmeister (Research Associate)
Dimensions:	234 x 159 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	416
ISBN-13:	978-6155225765
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
LSN:	6155225761
Barcode:	9786155225765

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