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Archaeology and education in Postsoviet Russia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Yuri E. Berezkin*
Affiliation:
Institute for the History of Material Culture, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Abstract

In the mid 1980s, anthropologists such as Marcus & Fischer (1986) called for a ‘repatriation’ of anthropology, bringing the tools of the discipline to bear on the ‘home’ situations of Euro-America rather than focusing on ‘alien, exotic’ traditions.

Type
Special section: Archaeology in education
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2000

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References

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