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.
Dartmouth Digital Commons Citation
Kan, Sergei, "Evolutionism and Historical Particularism at the St. Petersburg Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography" (2008). Dartmouth Scholarship. 645.
https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/facoa/645
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