Russian Anthropology Research Articles

Dmitri Olderogge and his place in the history of Russian African anthropology

Dmitri Olderogge and his place in the history of Russian African anthropology

Indigenous Intellectuals and Suppressed Russian Anthropology

In the course of the ideological shift to Soviet ethnography linked to the Soviet cultural revolution of 192831, the Communist Party targeted the old guard in the academic disciplines as enemies of the people. Among those suppressed were three distinguished Sakha (or Yakut) ethnographers and political leaders. These three intellectuals managed to cope with the Bolsheviks social revolution and to appreciate the great value of their indigenous cultures without rejecting the Russian concept of modernity. Their work fills a gap in Sakha ethnography between the classic ethnographies of the political exiles and the historicalethnographic works of the 1940s. Their personal histories reveal that suppressed Russian anthropology was a study of otherness that entangled the others themselves and at the same time excluded them.

„Fremde Körperwelten”︁. Russische Anthropologie und Medizin im kolonialen Diskurs des ausgehenden Zarenreiches

Abstract„Exotic Bodies”︁: Russian Anthropology and Medicine in the Colonial Discours of Late Imperial Russia. In the nineteenth century Russian anthropologists adopted Western theories on the biological superiority of the white man in order to justify Russian colonization at the Asiatic periphery. After the Great Reforms the imperial process of acculturation was discussed in the context of modernization that also touched the institutionalization of colonial medicine. Whereas Russian armchair anthropologists were operating with racial idioms, physicians as practitioners on the colonial spot were not receptive to the ideology of “white man's burden”. From experience with the socioeconomic backwardness of Russia's Asiatic periphery physicians stood up for the vital rights of the indigenous population in the colonial Public Health. With deep respect for indigenous medicine Russian physicians were not advocates of Russian colonial expansion and racial discrimination that made them different to their Western colleagues. On the basis of Russian nineteenth century medical literature and Siberian archival sources this paper outlines the critical reflections of Russian physicians on Tsarist colonialism

Dmitri Olderogge and his place in the history of Russian African anthropology

Dmitri Olderogge and his place in the history of Russian African anthropology

On Tishkov's “U.S. and Russian Anthropology”

Previous articleNext article No AccessDiscussion and CriticismOn Tishkov's “U.S. and Russian Anthropology”A. Kozhanovsky, I. Kozhanovskaya, L. Perepeolkin, A. Pershitz, V. Stelmach, and K. TertitzkyA. KozhanovskyTallinskaya 1–347, Moscow 123458, Russia. Search for more articles by this author , I. KozhanovskayaTallinskaya 1–347, Moscow 123458, Russia. Search for more articles by this author , L. PerepeolkinTallinskaya 1–347, Moscow 123458, Russia. Search for more articles by this author , A. PershitzTallinskaya 1–347, Moscow 123458, Russia. Search for more articles by this author , V. StelmachTallinskaya 1–347, Moscow 123458, Russia. Search for more articles by this author , and K. TertitzkyTallinskaya 1–347, Moscow 123458, Russia. Search for more articles by this author Tallinskaya 1–347, Moscow 123458, Russia.PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Current Anthropology Volume 40, Number 4August/October 1999 Sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/200048 Views: 13Total views on this site Citations: 1Citations are reported from Crossref History © 1999 by The Wenner‐Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. All rights reservedPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Dittmar Schorkowitz Historical Anthropology in Eurasia “… and the Way Thither”, History and Anthropology 23, no.11 (Mar 2012): 37–62.https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2011.595004

On Tishkov's "U.S. and Russian Anthropology"

On Tishkov's "U.S. and Russian Anthropology"

U.S. and Russian Anthropology

U.S. and Russian Anthropology

The State of the Discipline in Russia: Interviews with Russian Anthropologists

Interviews with four Russian anthropologists during the fall of 1995 reveal that the discipline in Russia is undergoing a crisis of identity. Due to changing political and cultural realities, there has been growing uncertainty about the aims, methods, and object of the discipline, as well as about its place within the human sciences. The author believes that Russian anthropology is at the moment unable to situate itself safely in the face of the changes and uncertainties.

Introduction

Anthropologists often "reinvent the wheel" by grappling with concepts that have long pedigrees within the history of philosophy. The degree to which anthropological theory building is conscious and credited varies, of course, not the least by educational and cultural backgrounds. This journal issue features current struggles and debates within Russian anthropology and linguistics over the intellectual divides of materialism and positivism versus phenomenology and relativism.

Narrative Time

Narrative Time

The Soviet and the Savage [and Comments and Replies

Social anthropology, in the West and in Russia, sprang in part from an interest in the evolution of mankind: "primitive" society was relevant as a kind of surrogate time-machine, as evidence about the earlier "stages" in the development of human society. But the British and Russian traditions went in markedly different directions in the 20th century. Under the impact of the Malinowskian revolution, social anthropology in Britain acquired a marked synchronic bias. Even with a later revival of interest in history, the effects of this "functionalist" attitude continue to be felt, notably in the absence of any coherent typology of social forms. By contrast, Russian anthropology (locally called ethnography nowadays) has, through assuming Marxist forms in the U.S.S.R., inherited the Marxist concern with a typology of social formations, and moreover one inevitably inspired by the idea of an overall evolution of humanity. The article explores the benefits and the difficulties of the Fragestellung inspired by such a vision, notably the difficulties which arise from any rigid application of the five-plus typology of social forms found in traditional Marxism, and the manner in which contemporary Soviet scholars cope with these problems.

Russian Anthropology: The Ancient Culture of the Bering Sea and the Eskimo Problem . S. I. Rudenko. Translated by Paul Tolstoy. Henry N. Michael, Ed. (Anthropology of the North: Translations from Russian Sources, No. 1.) Arctic Institute of North America and University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Canada, 1961. iii + 186 pp. Illus. $3.

Russian Anthropology: <i>The Ancient Culture of the Bering Sea and the Eskimo Problem</i> . S. I. Rudenko. Translated by Paul Tolstoy. Henry N. Michael, Ed. (Anthropology of the North: Translations from Russian Sources, No. 1.) Arctic Institute of North America and University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Canada, 1961. iii + 186 pp. Illus. $3.

Russian Anthropology: The Ancient Culture of the Bering Sea and the Eskimo Problem . S. I. Rudenko. Translated by Paul Tolstoy. Henry N. Michael, Ed. (Anthropology of the North: Translations from Russian Sources, No. 1.) Arctic Institute of North America and University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Canada, 1961. iii + 186 pp. Illus. $3.

Russian Anthropology: <i>The Ancient Culture of the Bering Sea and the Eskimo Problem</i> . S. I. Rudenko. Translated by Paul Tolstoy. Henry N. Michael, Ed. (Anthropology of the North: Translations from Russian Sources, No. 1.) Arctic Institute of North America and University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Canada, 1961. iii + 186 pp. Illus. $3.