| Titre | Aux origines de l'ethnographie russe : la Société de géographie dans les années 1840-1850 | |
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| Auteur | Wladimir Berelowitch | |
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Revue |
Cahiers du monde russe Titre à cette date : Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique |
| Numéro | volume 31, no 2-3, avril-septembre 1990 Regards sur l'anthropologie soviétique | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | II |
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| Page | 265-273 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Wladimir Berelowitch, The origin of Russian ethnography: the Geographical Society in the 1840's-1850's.
Ethnography was conceived within the framework of the Russian Geographical Society created in 1845 along the rationalist lines of the eighteenth century, on the model of natural sciences, as a description and a classification of primitive peoples. However, as from 1846, when Nadezhdin was put in charge of the ethnographical section, it was the Russian current, greatly tinged with nationalism and slavophilism, that became predominant. While persisting to explore the remotest ethnic groups, the section stressed definitely the study of "Russian" (comprising Ukrainian and Belorussian) narodnost' (Volkstum), as well as its Slav neighbors in the hope of discovering the national spirit behind the "exterior" and "material" manifestatioas. The imperial idea that supported the ethnographic study was thus replaced by the national concept, and Russia was viewed as an ethnic entity rather than an imperial state. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/cmr_0008-0160_1990_num_31_2_2225 |
