Empire and Eduards Volters

Vida Savoniakaitė is Head of Department of Ethnology and Anthropology and Senior Research Fellow at the Lithuanian Institute of History. Recent publications include the edited volume on the history of anthropology, Lietuvos etnologija (2022).

• List of FiguresPrefaceNote on Text: Biography of Eduards VoltersAbbreviationsIntroductionChapter 1. Empire: The Perspectives of Race and NationChapter 2. Latvian EthnographyChapter 3. An Ethnographic Journey through LithuaniaChapter 4. Ethnographic StatisticsChapter 5. Regional StudiesChapter 6. Lithuania’s Ethnographic Statistical StudiesChapter 7. LegacyConclusionReferencesIndex

“This book is an invaluable source of information on the rise of Lithuanian cultural sciences and their impact on the re-emergence of the Lithuanians as a nation in the 20th century.“ • Anna Gomóła, University of Silesia in Katowice“The book fills a notable gap in the history of European ethnology, ethnography, and anthropology by offering an in-depth, contextualized examination of Edgars Volters, an influential yet underexplored Latvian Lithuanian scholar who operated in the western borderlands of the Russian Empire.” • Tom Kencis, University of Latvia Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art