Introduction: On the Making of Ethnographic Knowledge in Russia (Roland Cvetkovski) Imperial Case Studies: Russian and British Ethnographic Theory (Alexis Hofmeister) Part I: Paradigms Russian Ethnography as a Science: Truths Claimed, Trails Followed (Alexei Elfimov) Beyond, against, and with Ethnography: Physical Anthropology as a Science of Russian Modernity (Marina Mogilner) Ethnography, Marxism, and Soviet Ideology (Sergei Alymov) Ethnogenesis and Historiography: Historical Narratives for Central Asia in the 1940s and 1950s (Sergey Abashin) Part II: Representations Symbols, Conventions, and Practices: Visual Representation of Ethnographic Knowledge on Siberia in Early Modern Maps and Reports (Maike Sach) Empire Complex: Arrangements in the Russian Ethnographic Museum, 1910 (Roland Cvetkovski) Learning about the Nation: Ethnographic Representations of Children, Representations of Ethnography for Children (Catriona Kelly) Part III: Peoples Siberian Ruptures: Dilemmas of Ethnography in an Imperial Situation (Sergey Glebov) Concepts of Ukrainian Folklore and the Transition from Imperial Russia to Stalin's Soviet Empire (Angela Rustemeyer) No Love Affair: Ingush and Chechen Imperial Ethnographies (Christian Dettmering) National Inventions: The Imperial Emancipation of the Karaites from Jewishness (Mikhail Kizilov) List of Contributors Index