This collection explores theoretical and empirical developments in
the anthropology of the Caucasus and Central Asia, originating in
or shaped by the Soviet era. Special attention is paid to the
creation of local and national schools as well as to the role of
institutional and biographical dis/continuities. Within the
academic field of anthropology in the Soviet republics,
Russia-based research institutes and regional branches of the
former Soviet Academy of Sciences played a special role.
Explorations of this role and of the impact of ideology are
pertinent to the controversial question as to whether the Soviet
Union was essentially a colonial enterprise. The authors include
leading anthropologists from the Caucasus and Central Asia, as well
as regional specialists from the Russian Federation and western
countries. Florian Mühlfried is an anthropologist working for the
Caucasus Studies Program at the Friedrich Schiller University of
Jena, Germany. Sergey Sokolovskiy is a Senior Researcher at the
Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of
Sciences and editor-in-chief of the journal Etnograficheskoe
obozrenie.
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