Open AccessEFFORT OF EXPLANATION OF SOVIET RUSSIA'S ETHNOGRAPHIC HERITAGE OF THE 1920S
Author(s) -
Albina Bogochanova
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
učënye zapiski
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2414-9101
DOI - 10.32340/2414-9101-2020-4-28-33
Subject(s) - ethnography , ideology , historiography , ethnic group , indigenization , object (grammar) , indigenous , relation (database) , politics , state (computer science) , subject (documents) , sociology , political science , social science , anthropology , law , library science , philosophy , ecology , linguistics , algorithm , database , computer science , biology
The paper considers some tendencies appeared in Soviet ethnographic science in 1920s after acceptance by young Soviet state a new political line in inter-ethnic relation issues named “localization policy” or “indigenisation” in Russian historiography. The author's conclusions are based on analysis of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union's scholars' subject-matter key writings and reports of major ethnographic fieldworks started by special expert committees opened in major Soviet ethnographic museums at the first quarter of the 20th century. On the author's opinion, increased research activities of Soviet scientific forces in the object field of ethnographic science is an answer to a governmental order for elaboration of theoretical base for meeting ideological goals in so called “ethnic building” area; the article gives a number of examples of ethnographic fieldworks with indigenous people (Altaians, Bachat Teleuts) from Altai Mountains (former Oirot autonomous region, now the Altai Republic).