Challenges in empire: Eduards Volters’ ethnography on Lithuania, 1882–1918

• Published in: Anthropological theory Vol. 24; no. 1; pp. 45 - 66
• Main Author: Savoniakaitė, Vida
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.03.2024; Sage Publications Ltd
• Subjects: Activism; Centralization; Ethnographers; Ethnography; Imperialism; Nationalism; Political participation; Research subjects; Researcher subject relations; Social environment; Sympathy; Lithuania; race; nation; social connections; Eduards Volters; participant observation; literate communities; Lithuania; ethnography; Russian Empire

This article argues that Eduards Volters (1856–1941), an important ethnographer working in the first part of his career with the Imperial Russian Geographical Society, helped demonstrate the value of first-hand observation, social connection, and social context to ethnography through his research in...