Lev Shternberg – Anthropologist, Russian Socialist, Jewish Activist Kan Hardback

Lev ShternbergAnthropologist, Russian Socialist, Jewish Activist\nAuthor(s): Sergei A. Kan\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Nebraska Press, United States\nImprint: University of Nebraska Press\nISBN-13: 9780803216037, 978-0803216037\nSynopsis\nThis intellectual biography of Lev Shternberg [tel] 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.\nBut Shternberg was much more than a government anthropologist. Under the new regime he continued his work as the senior curator of the St. Petersburg Museum of.