Russie impériale/Union Soviétique – Histoire de l’anthropologie, de l’ethnologie et de l’ethnographie dans l’empire russe et l’URSS

“Intellectual and Political Contexts of the Theory of Ethnos in the Russian Empire/Soviet Union”

Sergei Alymov, 2019

This article seeks to reconstruct the intellectual and political context of the first formulations of ethnos (этнос) as a subject matter of ethnography in the Russian Empire at the turn of the 20th century . It makes an argument that these definitions were a product of a group of like-minded (…)

“The Soviet Etnos Theory and its Parallel in South Africa under Apartheid”

Petr Skalník, 2022

A historical note: This article appears as it was written in English in the 1980s while I was on the staff of the University of Cape Town. Only minor corrections and the use of the past tense when referring to the Soviet Union and to South Africa under Apartheid have been made. First I offered (…)