Alexis Hofmeister is Research Associate at the Department of History at the University of Basel.Roland Cvetkovski is assistant professor at the Department of Eastern European History in the University of Cologne.

• Introduction: On the Making of Ethnographic Knowledge in Russia, Imperial Case Studies: Russian and British Ethnographic Theory, Part I: Paradigms Russian Ethnography as a Science: Truths Claimed, Trails Followed, Part II: Representations Symbols, Conventions, and Practices, Part III: Peoples Siberian Ruptures, List of Contributors, Index

Alexis Hofmeister is Research Associate at the Department of History at the University of Basel.Roland Cvetkovski is assistant professor at the Department of Eastern European History in the University of Cologne.

• Introduction: On the Making of Ethnographic Knowledge in Russia, Imperial Case Studies: Russian and British Ethnographic Theory, Part I: Paradigms Russian Ethnography as a Science: Truths Claimed, Trails Followed, Part II: Representations Symbols, Conventions, and Practices, Part III: Peoples Siberian Ruptures, List of Contributors, Index

Alexis Hofmeister is Research Associate at the Department of History at the University of Basel.Roland Cvetkovski is assistant professor at the Department of Eastern European History in the University of Cologne.

• Introduction: On the Making of Ethnographic Knowledge in Russia, Imperial Case Studies: Russian and British Ethnographic Theory, Part I: Paradigms Russian Ethnography as a Science: Truths Claimed, Trails Followed, Part II: Representations Symbols, Conventions, and Practices, Part III: Peoples Siberian Ruptures, List of Contributors, Index