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 central contribution of this book is its detailed focus on the specific contexts that shaped the creation of ethnographic knowledge in modern Russia.


Table of Contents
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
Beyond, against, and with Ethnography: Physical Anthropology as a Science of Russian Modernity
Ethnography, Marxism, and Soviet Ideology
Ethnogenesis and Historiography: Historical Narratives for Central Asia in the 1940s and 1950s
Part II: Representations
Symbols, Conventions, and Practices: Visual Representation of Ethnographic Knowledge on Siberia in Early Modern Maps and Reports
Empire Complex: Arrangements in the Russian Ethnographic Museum, 1910
Learning about the Nation: Ethnographic Representations of Children, Representations of Ethnography for Children
Part III: Peoples
Siberian Ruptures: Dilemmas of Ethnography in an Imperial Situation
Concepts of Ukrainian Folklore and the Transition from Imperial Russia to Stalin’s Soviet Empire
No Love Affair: Ingush and Chechen Imperial Ethnographies
National Inventions: The Imperial Emancipation of the Karaites from Jewishness
List of Contributors
Index

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