Lev Shternberg anthropologist, Russian socialist, Jewish activist /

• Main Author: Kan, Sergei.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2009.
• Series: Critical studies in the history of anthropology.
• Subjects: Shternberg, Lev I͡Akovlevich, > 1861-1927.; Anthropologists > Biography. > Russia; Shternberg, Lev IAkovlevich.; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Social Scientists & Psychologists.; SOCIAL SCIENCE > Regional Studies.; SOCIAL SCIENCE > General. > Anthropology; Electronic books.
• Online Access: ebrary; View fulltext via EzAccess; MyiLibrary
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xx, 550 p.) : ill., maps.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 489-520) and index.
• ISBN: 9780803224704 (electronic bk.); 0803224702 (electronic bk.)

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 who directed this survey and consequently played a major role in influencing the professionalization of anthropology in the Soviet Union.