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Savoniakaitė, Vida

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  • Ethnography and Nation-building in Lithuania (1882-1918) : The Life and Work of Eduards Volters
    20 juillet 2021, par Frederico Delgado-Rosa

    Latvian ethnographer, linguist, folklorist and archaeologist Eduards Volters (1856-1941), an obscure figure in the old history of “world anthropologies”, conducted pioneering ethnographic fieldwork in neighbouring Lithuania – then divided between Russia and Prussia – between 1882 and 1918. Notwithstanding the peripheral condition of Baltic nations, Volters was a cosmopolitan academic and, following his studies in German and Russian universities and also his teaching at the University of Saint (...)