Etnografowie z przymusu. Polscy zesłańcy w służbie kolonialnej Cesarstwa Rosyjskiego
Ethnographers Under Coercion. Polish Exiles in the Colonial Service of the Russian Empire

Author(s): Karina Gaibulina
Subject(s): History, Anthropology, Social Sciences, Cultural history, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , 19th Century
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Siberia; Central Asia; Polish exiles; Polish Siberian triangle; Russian imperialism; orality; literacy; (post)colonialism
Summary/Abstract: The books deals with the part Polish exiles played in the colonial expansion of the Russian Empire on the Kazakh steppes of Central Asia in the 19th century. The issue is discussed on the selected texts by three Polish political prisoners: Adolf Januszkiewicz, Bronisław Zaleski and Seweryn Gross, which to this day are important sources for Kazakh historiography. The basic analytical perspective of the work are the theory of orality and literacy and post-colonial studies.

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