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We “Did Not Live by Work Alone”: An Interview with N.S. Polishchuk

[“Zhili ne tol’ko odnoi rabotoi”: interv’iu s N.S. Polishchuk]

DOI: https://doi.org/10.31857/S0869541523050032

EDN: YDWQJM

Type of publication: Interview

Submitted: 17.06.2023

Accepted: 01.09.2023

About author(s)

Sergei Alymov | http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9988-9556 | alymovs@mail.ru | Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences (32a Leninsky prospect, Moscow, 119991, Russia)

Keywords

Soviet ethnography, history of anthropology, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences, ethnography of workers

Abstract

In an interview to S.S. Alymov, the ethnographer and philologist N.S. Polishchuk talks about her biography, academic career and work at the Institute of Ethnography in the 1960s-90s. The conversation covers topics such as the development of studies in the area of ethnography of the city and workers, the activities of the journal “Soviet Ethnography”, and the international contacts of Soviet ethnographers. N.S. Polishchuk further shares interesting information about the everyday life of scholars at the Institute of Ethnography, the fate of P.G. Bogatyrev, and much more.

Citation

Alymov, S.S. 2023. “Zhili ne tol’ko odnoi rabotoi”: interv’iu s N.S. Polishchuk [We “Did Not Live by Work Alone”: An Interview with N.S. Polishchuk]. Etnograficheskoe obozrenie 5: 25–38. https://doi.org/10.31857/S0869541523050032 EDN: YDWQJM

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