Title: Exploring the edge of empire : Soviet era anthropology in the Caucasus and Central Asia /
Authors: Mühlfried, Florian.; Sokolovskiy, Sergey.; Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung.
Publisher: Lit ; Global [distributor],
Year: 2011
Subjects: Anthropology Soviet Union.; Caucasus Ethnic relations.; Asia, Central Ethnic relations.; Soviet Union Politics and government.
Contents: Introduction : Soviet anthropology at the empire's edge / Florian Muhlfried and Sergey Sokolovskiy -- Soviet ethnography : structure and sentiment / Tamara Dragadze -- Survival strategies : reflections on the notion of religious 'survivals' in Soviet ethnographic studies of Muslim religious life in Central Asia / Devin DeWeese -- Heroes of theory : Central Asian Islam in post-war Soviet ethnography / John Schoeberlein -- Ethnographic views of socialist reforms in Soviet Central Asia : collective farm (kolkhoz) monographs / Sergey Abashin -- From collective farm to Islamic museum? : deconstructing the narrative of highlander traditions in Dagestan / Vladimir Bobrovnikov -- Interview with Sergey Aleksandrovich Arutyunov -- Interview with Anatoly Mikhailovich Khazanov -- Salvage versus knowledge : Armenian ethnography across Soviet times / Artak Dabaghyan -- Soviet-era anthropology by Azerbaijani scholars / Aliagha Mammadli -- The reception of Marr and Marrism in the Soviet Georgian academy / Kevin Tuite -- Anthropology at its margins : essentialism and nationalism in northwest Caucasian studies / Igor Kuznetsov -- Iakubovskii and others : canonizing Uzbek national history / Alisher Ilkhamov -- Ol'ga Sukhareva and the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan / Olga Naumova -- Tragedy of a Soviet Faust : Chaianov in Central Asia / Alexander Nikulin -- Description and (re)construction in Soviet-era anthropology / Levon Abrahamian.