Lev Shternberg: Anthropologist, Russian Socialist, Jewish Activist

by Sergei Kan

This intellectual biography of Lev Shternberg (1861-1927) illuminates the development of professional anthropology in late imperial and early Soviet Russia. Shortly after the formation of the Soviet Union the government initiated a detailed ethnographic survey of the country's peoples. Lev Shternberg, who as a political exile during the late tsarist period had conducted ethnographic research in northeastern Siberia, was one of the anthropologists...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803216033
• ISBN13: 9780803216037
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 574 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"