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Since 1989 Panorama of Russia has specialized in academic and reference publications from the Russian Federation and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
This book is about the appearance and evolution of the term "race" and about the forming of a "non-classic" science of the human being, physical anthropology, in Russia in the second half of the 19th - the first third of the 20th centuries. The new field dealt with types, races, somatic structure and collective characteristics of mankind as a whole, and the population of the Russian empire particularly. This book tells the story of the Russian Anthropological Society, of anthropological departments at universities, of the hot discussions about "colonial" anthropology and geography, racist belonging and "Russian" nature of Pushkin. The author also describes the background of the new discipline, the enthnographic diversity of the Russian Empire, and the process of the adaptation of this scientific field to new conditions in soviet times. Bibliographical references. Name index. Also available by the same author: Mifologiia "Podpol`nogo Cheloveka": Radikal`nyi Mikrokosm v Rossii Nachala XX Veka kak Predmet Semioticheskogo Analiza (1999).
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