Empire and Eduards Volters : The Ethnography of Lithuanians and Latvians, 1882-1941 (Methodology & History in Anthropology)

Eduards Volters was a linguist, ethnographer, and archeologist with the Russian Imperial Geographical Society, and considered one of the founders of literate Lithuanian and Latvian communities. This study compares various historical and theoretical contexts in anthropology and decolonization to reveal how Volters reconciled his ethnographic work within the political goals of the empire.