Homo imperii : a history of physical anthropology in Russia / Marina Mogilner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mogilʹner, Marina, author.

Series:

Critical studies in the history of anthropology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Physical anthropology--Russia--History--20th century.

Physical anthropology.

Physical anthropology--Soviet Union--History.

History.

Soviet Union.

Russia.

Physical Description:

pages : illustrations ; cm.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2013]

Contents:

Introduction: the science of imperial modernity

Paradoxes of institutionalization

Academic genealogy and social contexts of the "atypical science"

Anthropology as a "regular science": kafedra

Anthropology as a network science: society

The liberal anthropology of imperial diversity: apolitical politics

Aleksei Ivanovskii's anthropological classification of the family of "racial relatives"

"Russians" in the language of liberal anthropology

Dmitrii Anuchin's liberal anthropology

Anthropology of Russian imperial nationalism

Ivan Sikorsky and his "imperial situation"

Academic racism and "Russian national science"

Anthropology of Russian multinationalism

The space between "empire" and "nation"

"Jewish physiognomy", the "Jewish question", and Russian race science between inclusion and exclusion

A "dysfunctional" colonial anthropology of imperial brains

Russian military anthropology: from army-as-empire to army-as-nation

Military mobilization of diversity studies

The imperial army through national lenses

Nation instead of empire

Race and social imagination

The discovery of population politics and sociobiological discourses in Russia

Meticization as modernization, or the sociobiological utopias of Ivan Ivanovich Pantiukhov

The criminal anthropology of imperial society

Conclusion: did Russian physical anthropology become soviet?

Notes:

Revised version of the work originally published in Russian under title: Homo imperii: istorii͡a fizicheskoĭ antropologii v Rossii (konet͡s͡ XIX--nachalo XX veka).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780803239784

0803239785

OCLC:

815824849