The essays in this book address fields into which ethnographic knowledge poured - military, mission, history, anthropology, and literature. It broadens our understanding of knowledge formats - pictures, maps, atlases, plays, tape recordings, lectures, films, posters, museums, and exhibitions, exerting a powerful influence on imperial identities. According to the authors, it is place, space, territories and boundaries ethnographic knowledge was superseded by imperial discourse: defining regions, establishing ethnic or national affiliations, and conceiving geographical entities implied the mapping of political and historical hierarchies
About the AuthorCvetkovski and Hofmeister are assistant professors at the Department of Eastern European History in Cologne
Book InformationISBN 9786155225765
Author Roland CvetkovskiFormat Hardback
Page Count 416
Imprint Central European University PressPublisher Central European University Press
Weight(grams) 699g