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Contents

Notes on Transliteration and Place Names

ix

Notes on Referencing Archival and Museum Collections

xi

Contributors

xiii

Acknowledgments

xvii

1.

Grounding Etnos Theory: An Introduction

1

David G. Anderson, Sergei S. Alymov and Dmitry V. Arzyutov

Defining Etnos

2

Empires, Scientific Traditions, and Etnos

7

Life Histories, and Field Histories, of Etnos Thinking

10

Etnos and Contemporary Identity Movements

15

2.

Etnos Thinking in the Long Twentieth Century

21

Sergei S. Alymov, David G. Anderson and Dmitry V. Arzyutov

What’s in a Term?: The Etnos Term and the Institutionalization of Ethnography in Russia

23

Etnos and Biosocial Science in Russia

34

Etnos and Soviet Marxism

37

Etnos in the Long Twentieth Century and Beyond

55

3.

Ukrainian Roots of the Theory of Etnos

77

Sergei S. Alymov

St Petersburg Anthropology before Volkov

80

The Ukrainian National Movement and the Definition of Nationality

84

Volkov and the Politics of Ukrainian Identity in the Russian Empire

89

The Ukrainian People in the Past and Present as a Joint Project of the Russian and Ukrainian Liberal Intelligentsia

94

Etnos, the St Petersburg Paleoethnological School, and the Teaching of Ethnography

100

Museum, Fieldwork, and Etnos: the Role of Ethnographic Exhibits

108

Physical Anthropology and Etnos: Dmitriĭ Anuchin Challenges Volkov’s Ukrainian “Anthropological Type”

117

Mogili͡anskiĭ in Exile: Political Activism and Teaching

122

The Legacy of Volkov in the USSR and Ukraine

132

Conclusion

136

4.

Mapping Etnos: The Geographic Imagination of Fёdor Volkov and his Students

145

Sergei S. Alymov and Svetlana V. Podrezova

Map, Archive, Museum: The Sources and Methods of the Commission’s Work

147

Ethnographic Map-Making

147

Language: Creating a Dialectological Map

148

Museum Activities as a Platform for the Commission’s Work

150

Organization, Methods, and Results of the KSEK Commission’s Work

152

From Questionnaire to Monograph: A Model for Describing an Etnos

166

David Alekseevich Zolotarëv (1885–1935)

168

Dmitriĭ Konstantinovich Zelenin (1878–1954)

172

Sergeĭ Ivanovich Rudenko (1885–1969)

175

The “Working-Through”

183

Conclusion

190

5.

Notes from His “Snail’s Shell”: Shirokogoroff’s Fieldwork and the Groundwork for Etnos Thinking

203

David G. Anderson

Etnos Theory… Unwound

206

The Mystery of the Missing Tunguses: the 1912 Zabaĭkal Expedition

208

A Curious Guest at the Wedding: The 1913 Zabaĭkal Expedition

223

Conclusion: “Equilibria”, “Valence”, and the Snail Metaphor

234

Appendix 1: Archeography

240

6.

Order out of Chaos: Anthropology and Politics of Sergei M. Shirokogoroff

249

Dmitry V. Arzyutov

Ethnographer, Politician, Shaman

250

Vol’sk and I͡Ur’ev: Political Life in the Provinces

253

Paris: on the “Degeneration” of Political Parties

256

Between Petrograd and the Far East

259

Shirokogoroff in Vladivostok: A Lecturer and a Politician

267

The Chinese Years: In the Shadow of Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany

274

Order out of Chaos

281

7.

Chasing Shadows: Sharing Photographs from Former Northwest Manchuria

293

Jocelyne Dudding

The Field Photography of Sergei and Elizaveta Shirokogoroff

297

The Field Photography of Ethel Lindgren and Oscar Mamen

309

Evolving Museology

320

Affection for and Recognition of Northwest Manchuria in the Twenty-First Century

322

Conclusion

340

8.

“The Sea is Our Field”: Pomor Identity in Russian Ethnography

349

Masha Shaw and Natalie Wahnsiedler

Pomor Landscapes and the History of Slavic Ethnography

351

Material Culture

353

Northern Russian folklore and Pomor’ska govori͡a

361

Pomor Distinctiveness in a Pan-Slavic Frame

364

Pomors as Subetnos

365

Local Ideas

367

Theories of Pomor Origin

369

Recent Pomor Identity Movements

372

A Museified Approach to Culture

372

Pomor crosses

376

Indigeneity Claims

377

Conclusion

382

9.

Epilogue: Why Etnos (Still) Matters

389

Nathaniel Knight

List of Illustrations

403

Index

413