Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Winter 2008

Publication Title

Museum Anthropology

Department

Department of Anthropology

Additional Department

Department of Russian

Abstract

The paper describes the early 20th century debates between several leading Russian anthropologists, including Lev Shternberg, on the best way of displaying artifacts in the newly refurbished Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology in St. Petersburg. These debates revealed major tensions and contradictions between evolutionism and historical particularism, as well as universalism and nationalism within Russian anthropology of that era.

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