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Ethnic anthropology in the Institute and Museum of Anthropology of Lomonosov Moscow State University

Perevozchikov I.V.

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Anuchin Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Mokhovaya st., 11, Moscow, 125009, Russia

Perevozchikov Ilya V., e-mail: perevozchikovev@mail.ru

Abstract

Review. The article discusses the formation and development of ethnic anthropology in the Research Institute of Anthropology, Lomonosov Moscow State University from 1922 onwards. As in a journal article is impossible to describe all that has been done at the Institute of anthropology in ethnic anthropology for 90 years, the author does not make detailed analysis of numerous works, and highlights the main achievements and the specific research areas of the Institute. Certainly, in this approach, there is a danger of subjectivity to the choice of subjects. The scientific work at the Institute was held against the backdrop of major social transformations and was accompanied by a marked ideological pressure from the outside. The author concentrates on two (of many) issues that pass through all periods of the existence of the Institute. Application and the creation of new research methods and problems of ethnogenesis of Slavic and Finnish populations. The author shows how, over time, reduced work in ethnic anthropology in the Institute, due to objective and subjective reasons. From the example of the anthropological study of the various Russian and Finnish populations the author shows haw were solved problems of classification and the emergence of the population approach. The author also cites statements of well-known anthropologists on various theoretical aspects. The author tries to convince the reader, through the text of the article, on the advantages of the morphological approach in solving some of the problems of ethnic anthropology.

Keywords

anthropology, Institute of anthropology, the history of the development of ethnic anthropology

Цит.: Perevozchikov I.V. Ethnic anthropology in the Institute and Museum of Anthropology of Lomonosov Moscow State University // Moscow University Anthropology Bulletin (Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seria XXIII. Antropologia), 2013; 1/2013; с. 30-42