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Evolutionism and Historical Particularism at the St. Petersburg Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography
The 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
The Concept of the "Field" in Early Soviet Ethnography : A Northern Perspective
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Evolutionism and Historical Particularism at the St. Petersburg Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography
The social organization of the Gilyak. Anthropological papers of the AMNH ; no. 82
lvi, 280 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 26 cm.Includes bibliographical references (p. 256-272) and index
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