{"product_id":"v-v-bunak-m-f-nesturkh-ya-ya-roginsky-anthropology-a-short-course-antropologiya-kratkii-kurs-1941-in-russian","title":"V. V. Bunak, M. F. Nesturkh, Ya. Ya. Roginsky. Anthropology: A Short Course (Antropologiya. Kratkii kurs). 1941. In Russian.","description":"\u003cp\u003eБунак В. В., Нестурх М. Ф., Рогинский Я. Я. Антропология : краткий курс \/ под редакцией проф. В. В. Бунака ; редактор М. М. Местергази. — Допущен Наркомпросом РСФСР в качестве учебного пособия для университетов.\u003cbr\u003eМосква : Государственное учебно-педагогическое издательство Наркомпроса РСФСР [Учпедгиз], 1941. — 376 с., 2 вкл. л. ил., с илл., картами, схемами.\u003cbr\u003eИздательский цельнотканевый переплёт. Энциклопедический формат. Тираж 6 000 экземпляров. \u003cbr\u003eСостояние хорошее: лёгкие потёртости тканевого переплёта по углам и краям, незначительное истирание по верхнему краю корешка, тиснение читаемо. Возрастное пожелтение бумаги (типичное для военных лет), отдельные пятнышки. Блок крепкий, страницы и иллюстрации полностью читаемы. \u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003eBunak V. V., Nesturkh M. F., Roginsky Ya. Ya. Anthropology : A Short Course \/ edited by Prof. V. V. Bunak ; in-house editor M. M. Mestergazi. — Approved by the People's Commissariat for Education of the RSFSR as a textbook for universities.\u003cbr\u003eMoscow : State Educational-Pedagogical Publishing House of the People's Commissariat for Education of the RSFSR [Uchpedgiz], 1941. — 376 pp., 2 inserted plates of illustrations, with in-text illustrations, maps and schematics.\u003cbr\u003ePublisher's full deep burgundy (wine-red) cloth binding. Encyclopaedic format. Print run of 6,000 copies. \u003cbr\u003eCondition good: light rubbing to the cloth at corners and edges, minor wear at the head of the spine, lettering legible. Age-yellowing of the paper (typical of wartime stock), with scattered minor spotting. Text-block firm, leaves and illustrations fully legible throughout. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first comprehensive Soviet university textbook in physical anthropology, prepared by the three towering figures of the discipline as it had been built up under Soviet conditions during the inter-war decades. Viktor Valerianovich Bunak (1891–1979), the volume's editor and principal architect, was the founder of academic physical anthropology in the USSR, the long-serving head of the Institute and Museum of Anthropology of Moscow University, and the author of the standard Soviet methodological texts on craniometry and somatology. Mikhail Fedorovich Nesturkh (1895–1979) was the leading Soviet specialist on primate evolution and human origins; Yakov Yakovlevich Roginsky (1895–1986), one of the principal twentieth-century theorists of race, was the originator (with Bunak) of the polycentric theory of human racial differentiation and a tenacious critic of Western racial typology and of the polygenist tradition. The volume is a document of profound historical interest beyond its disciplinary content. Signed for printing in October 1940 and released in the spring of 1941 — that is, in the months immediately preceding the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union — it represents the most fully developed Soviet response to National-Socialist racial science, opening with a preface that explicitly identifies \"the attempt to pervert anthropological data in the spirit of 'racial theory'\" as the central distorting tendency of contemporary international anthropology and proposing in its place a programme grounded in Engels's theory of the role of labour in the becoming-human of the primate, in Darwinian evolution, and in the conception of race as an historical rather than a metaphysical category. The four parts of the work — anthropogenesis (Nesturkh), merology, somatology and the analysis of human races (Roginsky) — are illustrated throughout with fine plates including the famous synoptic plate of human racial types reproduced in many later Soviet handbooks. As an uncensored 1941 first edition, the volume preserves the Bunak–Roginsky framework before the political reorganisations of Soviet anthropology in the late 1940s and early 1950s; as a textbook in the original cloth, it is uncommon today, and it is sought after by historians of science, by collectors of Soviet anti-Nazi publishing on the eve of the war, and by working physical and biological anthropologists.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanza Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44300690751530,"sku":null,"price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/6359\/5306\/files\/IMG_2135.jpg?v=1777502607","url":"https:\/\/stanzararebooks.com\/products\/v-v-bunak-m-f-nesturkh-ya-ya-roginsky-anthropology-a-short-course-antropologiya-kratkii-kurs-1941-in-russian","provider":"Stanza Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}