Une science sans objet

L’ethnographie soviétique des années 20-30 et les enjeux de la catégorisation ethnique

Bibliographic Data

ID12503287
AuthorsFrédéric Bertrand (0000-0002-0837-8281, corresponding author)
Year2003
Volume44
Issue1
Pages93-110
Publication date2003-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCahiers du monde russe (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1252-6576 • E-ISSN: 1777-5388
PublisherOpenEdition (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4000/monderusse.8600
OpenAlexW4248369159
LanguageEN
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A science without subject ? Soviet ethnography in the 1920s and 1930s and the stakes of ethnic classification.This article explores the means used by Soviet ethnography as it strove for legitimacy in the 1920s and 1930s. The determination of most Soviet ethnographers in perpetuating their discipline through the study of ethnicity turned out to be more problematic than expected. For they had to take into account the ever-increasing so-called Marxist categories and see to the accreditation of the great variety of categories and of the modes of representation and promotion specific to the discipline. They were thus led into a conflict centered on the definition of ethnicity. Paradoxically, after having been first rejected -- undoubtedly as part of the public repudiation inflicted to non-Marxist ethnology --, the study of ethnicity and the presentation of its identifying “markers” eventually coalesced with the Marrist scientific project that progressively absorbed Soviet ethnography in the 1930s

Ethnic group · Ethnography · Legitimacy · Library science · Marxist philosophy · Political science · Politics · Presentation (obstetrics · Promotion (chess · Representation (politics · Social science · Sociology · Subject (documents · Anthropology · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · Law · Soviet and Russian History

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