5-7 Page Essay on The Multan Case: Ethnic and Racial Hierarchies in the Russian Empire
Ethnic Minorities, Anthropology, and Russian National Identity on Trial: The Multan Case, 1892-96 Author(s): Robert Geraci Source: Russian Review, Vol. 59, No. 4 (Oct., 2000), pp. 530-554
Reconstruct the historical context (when and where in the history of the Russian Empire). What do we learn about this historical moment with this case? What is this case about?
1.) Present Case 2.) Think about reformed court (criminal case, legal system) 3.) Consider modern knowledge, Russianness, civilization
Questions/Things to think about while writing:
-Construction of groupness and belonging
-Construction of imperial Russianess/Otherness
-What does it mean to be Russian in imperial situation? How does it correlate with language, religion, way of life, ethnicity, race?
-Is it at all possible to integrate non-Russian, non-Orthodox Christian populations into imperial notion of Russianness?
Religion as the main imperial marker of “difference”
-The role of the modern knowledge (ethnography, medical science, jurisprudence/law, statistics, etc.)
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