RAS Social ScienceСоциологические исследования Sotsialogicheski issledovania

  • ISSN (Print) 0132-1625
  • ISSN (Online) 3034-6010

An Expedition to the Primitive: On an Unfulfi lled Dream of Soviet Ethnography

PII
S0869-54150000460-9-1
DOI
10.7868/S50000460-9-1
Publication type
Article
Status
Published
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Volume/ Edition
Volume / Issue 4
Pages
88-94
Abstract
The article is a publication of a 1931 archival document ("A Memo Report on the Issue of Organization of the All-Union Ethnographic Expedition") with a commentary. The report is a project plan of Soviet ethnographers' expedition to the "primitive" tribes of New Guinea and Tierra del Fuego meant to prove the Marxist view of the primitive society. The author discusses the history of the project and the reasons of its failure.
Keywords
Soviet ethnography, primitive society, fi eldwork, Marxism in ethnography, N.M. Matorin
Date of publication
01.07.2013
Year of publication
2013
Number of purchasers
1
Views
677

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