Lev Shternberg : anthropologist, Russian socialist, Jewish activist / Sergei Kan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kan, Sergei.

Series:

Critical studies in the history of anthropology.

Critical studies in the history of anthropology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropologists--Russia--Biography.

Anthropologists.

Shternberg, Lev I︠A︡kovlevich, 1861-1927.

Shternberg, Lev I︠A︡kovlevich.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (574 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This intellectual biography of Lev Shternberg (1861-1927) illuminates the development of professional anthropology in late imperial and early Soviet Russia. Shortly after the formation of the Soviet Union the government initiated a detailed ethnographic survey of the country's peoples. Lev Shternberg, who as a political exile during the late tsarist period had conducted ethnographic research in northeastern Siberia, was one of the anthropologists who directed this survey and consequently played a major role in influencing the professionalization of anthropology in the Soviet Union.

Contents:

Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Series Editors' Introduction; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Early Years; 2. Sakhalin; 3. Beginning a Professional Career in the Capital; 4. Scholarship and Activism during the 1905 Revolution; 5. The Last Decade before the Storm; 6. The Years of Turmoil, 1914-17; 7. Building a New Anthropology in the "City of the Living Dead"; 8. The NEP Era and the Last Years of Shternberg's Life; 9. All Humanity Is One; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 489-520) and index.

ISBN:

9786612130946

9781282130944

1282130943

9780803224704

0803224702

OCLC:

440817187