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An Empire of Others - Hardcover

 
9786155225765: An Empire of Others
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 6155225761 ISBN 13: 9786155225765
Publisher: Central European University Press, 2014

Synopsis

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 Usually, ethnographic findings were superseded by imperial discourse: Defining regions, connecting them with ethnic origins and conceiving national entities necessarily implied the mapping of political and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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About the Author

Roland Cvetkovski is assistant professor at the Department of Eastern European History in Cologne. Alexis Hofmeister is research assistant and coordinates the project "Imperial Subjects" at the Department of History at the University of Basel (Switzerland).

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Publisher
Central European University Press
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
6155225761
ISBN 13 
9786155225765
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
416
Editor
Hofmeister Alexis, Cvetkovski Roland