149 6 he Saga of the L. H. Morgan Archive, or How an American Marxist Helped Make a Bourgeois Anthropologist the Cornerstone of Soviet Ethnography here is no archive without a place of consignation, without a tech- nique of repetition, and without a certain exteriority. No archive without outside. Jacques Derrida , Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression, 1998 The Archive and the “Outside ” here are two reasons why a volume dedicated to the memory of George W. Stocking Jr. is, in our opinion, the most appropriate venue for this chapter. First, its American author studied with George at the University of Chicago and developed a strong interest in the history of anthropol- ogy under his inluence.1 It was Stocking who encouraged him to take advantage of his knowledge of Russian and explore the history of the relationship between Boas and his Russian colleagues, such as Vladi- mir Bogoraz and Lev Shternberg. A paper about Shternberg writen in Stocking’s seminar eventually grew into a monograph on Shternberg’s life and scholarly contributions (Kan 2009). One important lesson many of Stocking’s students learned from him is that an anthropolo- gist’s scholarly ideas develop within larger sociocultural, intellectual, political, and institutional contexts, within which he or she matures and lives, and for that reason a historian of anthropology should explore them rather than focus exclusively on anthropological theories. Likewise, Stocking’s writings became inspirational for the Rus- sian coauthor of this chapter. hanks to the impact of Stocking’s work, Arzyutov was able to ind a new common language with his Sergei A . Kan and Dmitry V. Arzyutov Kan, Sergei A. & Arzyutov, Dmitry V. (2016). The Saga of the L.H. Morgan Archive or How an American Marxist Helped Make a Bourgeois Anthropologist the Cornerstone of Soviet Ethnography. in Regna Darnell & Fredrick W Gleach (eds), Local Knowledge, Global Stage. vol. 10, Histories of Anthropology Annual, University of Nebraska Press, Nebraska, pp. 149–220. https://muse.jhu.edu/chapter/1846266