17 research outputs found
Kinship Structure and Political Authority: The Middle East and Central Asia
Full text linkThis is an offprint version of the article published in Comparative Studies in Society and History 28:334-55, made available by permission of the publisher. The version made available in Digital Common was supplied by the author.Publisher's Versiontru
Evolutionism and Historical Particularism at the St. Petersburg Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography
Get PDFThe paper describes the early 20th century debates between several leading Russian anthropologists, including Lev Shternberg, on the best way of displaying artifacts in the newly refurbished Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology in St. Petersburg. These debates revealed major tensions and contradictions between evolutionism and historical particularism, as well as universalism and nationalism within Russian anthropology of that era
Nomads of South Siberia. The Pastoral Economies of Tuva. By Sevyan Vainshtein. Edited and with an Introduction by Caroline Humphrey. Translated by Michael Colenso. Figures, Map, Plates, Tables. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, London, New York, New Rochelle, Melbourne, Sydney, 1980. Pp. x, 289. £20.00. (First published in Russian, Moscow, 1972.)
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Clans and Ploughs: Traditional Institutions and Production Decisions of Kazakhs under Russian Colonial Settlement
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