An Anthropological Light: Ethnographic Studies of Russia and Ukraine in the Post-Soviet Era.

The article discusses ethnographic studies of Russia and Ukraine in the period from 1991 to 2011, after the fall of the Soviet Union, from an anthropological perspective. Topics include a discussion of the methodologies of the fields of ethnography and anthropology, and the role of the researcher in maintaining a conversation with the informant, or participant, while gathering research; the methodology and debates which came up as a result of the fall of the Soviet Union, and its particular methodologies of gaining ethnographic information; and the primary themes that have arisen in research since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.