A Study on the Interrelation of Siberian Regionalism and Ethnography: A Possible Cohesion of Historical Anthropology and Intellectual History

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K03032
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Cultural anthropology
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: Watanabe Hibi 東京大学, 大学院総合文化研究科, 教授 (60345064)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 文化人類学 / 民族学 / 思想史 / シベリア / ロシア / シチャーポフ / ポターニン / ヤードリンツェフ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

I used mainly the primary Russian sources on Siberian Regionalism (sibirskoe oblastnichestvo), an intellectual and social movement which arouse in the early 1860s and faded away in the 1920s, to acquire the viewpoint for the integrative interpretation. I conducted my own material and archival researches around Russia and collected the second sources at The Library of Hokkaido University. I investigated how prominent activists of Siberian Regionalism (Slovtsov, Shchapov, Potanin, Shashkov, Iadrintsev) looked at Imperial Russia and Siberia in/outside Russia, and made clear the particularities of their discursive logic on which they articulated Siberia as a distinctive unit.

Free Research Field

文化人類学