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Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Transliteration and Place Names -- Notes on Referencing Archival and Museum Collections -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Grounding Etnos Theory: An Introduction -- Defining Etnos -- Empires, Scientific Traditions, and Etnos -- Life Histories, and Field Histories, of Etnos Thinking -- Etnos and Contemporary Identity Movements -- Published References -- 2. Etnos Thinking in the Long Twentieth Century -- What's in a Term?: The Etnos Term and the Institutionalization of Ethnography in Russia -- Etnos and Biosocial Science in Russia -- Etnos and Soviet Marxism -- Etnos in the Long Twentieth Century and Beyond -- Published References -- Archival References -- 3. Ukrainian Roots of the Theory of Etnos -- St Petersburg Anthropology before Volkov -- The Ukrainian National Movement and the Definition of Nationality -- Volkov and the Politics of Ukrainian Identity in the Russian Empire -- The Ukrainian People in its Past and Present as a Joint Project of the Russian and Ukrainian Liberal Intelligentsia -- Etnos, the St Petersburg Paleoethnological School, and the Teaching of Ethnography -- Museum, Fieldwork, and Etnos: The Role of Ethnographic Exhibits -- Physical Anthropology and Etnos: Dmitriĭ Anuchin Challenges Volkov's Ukrainian "Anthropological Type" -- Mogili͡anskiĭ in Exile: Political Activism and Teaching -- The Legacy of Volkov in the USSR and Ukraine -- Conclusion -- Published References -- Archival References -- 4. Mapping Etnos: The Geographic Imagination of Fёdor Volkov and his Students -- Map, Archive, Museum: the Sources and Methods of the Commission's Work -- Ethnographic Map-Making -- Language: Creating a Dialectological Map -- Museum Activities as a Platform for the Commission's Work -- Organization, Methods, and Results of the KSEK Commission's Work.

The idea of etnos came into being over a hundred years ago as a way of understanding the collective identities of people with a common language and shared traditions. In the twentieth century, the concept came to be associated with Soviet state-building, and it fell sharply out of favour. Yet outside the academy, etnos-style arguments not only persist, but are a vibrant part of regional anthropological traditions. Life Histories of Etnos Theory in Russia and Beyond makes a powerful argument for reconsidering the importance of etnos in our understanding of ethnicity and national identity across Eurasia. The collection brings to life a rich archive of previously unpublished letters, fieldnotes, and photographic collections of the theory's early proponents. Using contemporary fieldwork and case studies, the volume shows how the ideas of these ethnographers continue to impact and shape identities in various regional theatres from Ukraine to the Russian North to the Manchurian steppes of what is now China. Through writing a life history of these collectivist concepts, the contributors to this volume unveil a world where the assumptions of liberal individualism do not hold. In doing so, they demonstrate how notions of belonging are not fleeting but persistent, multi-generational, and bio-social.