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.

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帝国科学：达尔文主义、人类多样性和俄罗斯体质人类学

文章探讨了 19 世纪末至 20 世纪初俄罗斯体质人类学中达尔文式的“人类自然史”叙事的部署。它追溯了俄罗斯领先的体质人类学学派发展的两种叙述：一种叙述推进了集体学术事业的普遍主义愿景，致力于澄清先验接受的发展进化模型中缺失的环节。另一个构建了一种新语言，破坏了物种/亚种/种族/民族/作为稳定的、外部有界的和内部同质的单位的想法，并试图使帝国杂交合理化。这篇文章的主要焦点是后者的分类叙述、它的关系方法以及它产生的原始结构主义比较单位。