Ethnicity and ethnicities. Part II
Ethnicity and ethnicities. Part II
Author(s): Olga Brusina, Shokhrat Kadyrov, Isaac ScarboroughSubject(s): Anthropology, Fine Arts / Performing Arts
Published by: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
Keywords: scientific paradigms; definitions of ethnicity; anthropology; primordialism; constructivism
Summary/Abstract: Scientific paradigm changes are frequently accompanied by the reconsideration of central terms and ideas. This article demonstrates how this process is currently underway in Russian anthropological studies [narodovedenie] as part of a broader move away from ethnography to theoretical ethnology. The article also shows lines of succession and divergence between various paradigms currently dominant in Russian anthropology, including primordialism and constructivism, and presents the author’s vision of a definition of “ethnicity”, instruments needed to study ethnicities, the nature of “ethnicity,” the underlying axioms on which ethnicities are conceptualized. An initial attempt has been made in the article to outline the central positions that would provide for a principally new ethnological paradigm by way of a new definition of the phenomenon of ethnicity.
Journal: Nowa Polityka Wschodnia
- Issue Year: 14/2017
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 101-121
- Page Count: 21
- Language: English