Moscow University
Anthropology
Bulletin
Anthropology
Bulletin
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Anuchin Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Mokhovaya st., 11, Moscow, 125009, Russia
Balakhonova Ekaterina I., Ph.D., e-mail: balakhonova@gmail.com
The article is devoted to the 150th anniversary of the Anthropological Department of the Society of amateurs of Natural history. The idea of the society foundation, as the base for development of anthropology in Russia was conceived by Anatoly Petrovitch Bogdanov (1834–1896) in 1862 during scientific discussions with his colleges. He achieved the success in the official establishment of the Society of amateurs of Natural history at the beginning of 1864, and the Anthropological department inside it in the end of the year. This department became the first Russian Anthropological Society. The main tasks of the Anthropological department were diggings of tumuli, composition of paleoanthropological collections, ethnographic investigation of the Moscow region inhabitants and gathering collections on ethnography. The activity of the Anthropological Department of the Society of amateurs of Natural history was determinative in the organization of Ethnographical (1867) and Anthropological (1879) exhibitions. The exhibitions’ materials served as a base for Ethnographical museum in Moscow and Anthropological museum in the Moscow University. Nevertheless, only outstanding managerial abilities of A.P. Bogdanov and his great social, popularizational and publicistic activity guaranteed obtaining money and permission for the opening of anthropology chair, development of anthropology as the academic science and organizing of the Anthropological museum in the Moscow University.
history of science, MSU, anthropology, A.P. Bogdanov, Anthropological museum, ethnography, museology, exhibitions
Цит.: Balakhonova E.I. A.P. Bogdanov and foundation of the first Russian anthropological association // Moscow University Anthropology Bulletin (Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seria XXIII. Antropologia), 2015; 3/2015; с. 123-129
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