Mogilner Marina
Associate Professor of History, University of Illinois at Chicago, and affiliated researcher, Tyumen State University.
Ber Wiss. 2020 Mar;43(1):96-118. doi: 10.1002/bewi.201900020.
The article explores deployment of the Darwinian narrative of the "natural history of humanity" in Russian physical anthropology in the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century. It traces two narratives developed by the leading Russian school of physical anthropology: one narrative advanced a universalist vision of collective scholarly enterprise working toward clarifying the missing links in the a priori accepted developmental evolutionary model. The other constructed a new language that undermined the idea of species/subspecies/races/nations/ as stable, externally bounded, and internally homogeneous units and attempted to rationalize imperial hybridity. The article's main focus is on the latter classificatory narrative, its relational methodology, and the protostructuralist units of comparison that it produced.
本文探讨了19世纪末至20世纪初俄罗斯体质人类学中“人类自然史”的达尔文叙事的运用。它追溯了俄罗斯领先的体质人类学派发展出的两种叙事：一种叙事提出了一种普遍主义愿景，即集体学术事业致力于厘清先验接受的发展进化模型中的缺失环节。另一种叙事构建了一种新语言，这种语言破坏了物种/亚种/种族/民族作为稳定、外部有界且内部同质单位的观念，并试图使帝国杂种性合理化。本文的主要重点是后一种分类叙事、其关系方法论以及它所产生的原结构主义比较单位。
