Homo imperii [[electronic resource]] : a history of physical anthropology in Russia / / Marina Mogilner

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910788500703321
• Autore: Mogilʹner Marina
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lincoln, Neb., : University of Nebraska Press, c2013
• ISBN: 1-4962-1081-6; 0-8032-4603-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (505 p.)
• Collana: Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
• Disciplina: 599.90947
• Soggetti: Physical anthropology - Russia - History - 20th century; Physical anthropology - Soviet Union - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Revised version of the work originally published in Russian under title: Homo imperii: istorii͡a fizicheskoĭ antropologii v Rossii (konet͡s XIX--nachalo XX veka).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Series Editors' Introduction; Introduction; Part 1. Paradoxes of Institutionalization; 1. Academic Genealogy and Social Contexts of the "Atypical Science"; 2. Anthropology as a "Regular Science": Kafedra; 3. Anthropology as a Network Science: Society; Part 2. The Liberal Anthropology of Imperial Diversity: Apolitical Politics; 4. Aleksei Ivanovskii's Anthrpological Classification of the Family of "Racial Relatives"; 5. "Russians" in the Language of Liberal Anthropology; 6. Dmitrii Anuchin's Liberal Anthropology; Part 3. Anthropology of Russian Imperial Nationalism 7. Ivan Sikorsky and His "Imperial Situation"; 8. Academic Racism and "Russian National Science"; Part 4. Anthropology of Russian Multi-nationalism; 9. The Space between "Empire" and "Nation"; 10. "Jewish Physiognomy," the "Jewish Question," and Russian Race Science between Inclusion and Exclusion; 11. A "Dysfunctional" Colonial Anthropology of Imperial Brains; Part 5. Russian Military Anthropology: From Army-as-Empire to Army-as-Nation; 12. Military Mobilization of Diversity Studies; 13. The Imperial Army through National Lenses; 14. Nation Instead of Empire Part 6. Race and Social Imagination; 15. The Discovery of Population Politics and Sociobiological Discourses in ; Russia; 16. Meticization as Modernization, or the Sociobiological Utopias of Ivan Ivanovich Pantiukhov; 17. The Criminal Anthropology of Imperial Society; Conclusion; Notes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: It is widely assumed that the "non-classical" nature of the Russian empire and its equally "non-classical" modernity made Russian intellectuals immune to the racial obsessions of Western Europe and the United States. Homo Imperii corrects this perception by offering the first scholarly history of racial science in pre-revolutionary Russia and the early Soviet Union. Marina Mogilner places this story in the context of imperial self-modernization, political and cultural debates of the epoch, different reformist and revolutionary trends, and the growing challenge of modern nationalism. By