Indigenous Intellectuals and Suppressed Russian Anthropology

Sakha Ethnography from the End of the Nineteenth Century to the 1930s

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2219683
AutoresHiroki Takakura (0000-0003-0238-4506, autor de correspondencia)
Año2006
Volumen47
Número6
Páginas1009-1016
Fecha de publicación2006-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCurrent Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0011-3204 • E-ISSN: 1537-5382
EditorialUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/508694
OpenAlexW493892300
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas13

In the course of the ideological shift to Soviet ethnography linked to the Soviet cultural revolution of 192831, the Communist Party targeted the old guard in the academic disciplines as enemies of the people. Among those suppressed were three distinguished Sakha (or Yakut) ethnographers and political leaders. These three intellectuals managed to cope with the Bolsheviks social revolution and to appreciate the great value of their indigenous cultures without rejecting the Russian concept of modernity. Their work fills a gap in Sakha ethnography between the classic ethnographies of the political exiles and the historicalethnographic works of the 1940s. Their personal histories reveal that suppressed Russian anthropology was a study of otherness that entangled the others themselves and at the same time excluded them

Communism · Ethnography · Ethnology · Guard (computer science · Ideology · Indigenous · Modernity · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Anthropology · European Linguistics and Anthropology · Gender Studies · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Soviet and Russian History