Ethnicity and Anthropology in the Soviet Union

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4743971
AutoresErnest Gellner (autor de correspondencia)
Año1977
Volumen18
Número2
Páginas201-220
Fecha de publicación1977-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEuropean Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0003-9756 • E-ISSN: 1474-0583
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0003975600003209
OpenAlexW2029479272
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas14
Referencias citadas4

InThePastDecade, a minor revolution has taken place within Soviet Anthropology. 'Ethnography' is one of the recognised disciplines in the Soviet academic world, and corresponds roughly to what in the West is called social anthropology. This revolution has as yet been barely noticed by outside observers (1). Its leader is Yulian Bromley, a very Russian scholar with a very English surname, Director of the Institute of Ethnography of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. The revolution consists of making ethnography into the studies of ethnos-es, or, in current Western academic jargon, into the study of ethnicity-in other words the study of the phenomena of national feeling, identity, and interaction. History is about chaps, geography is about maps, and ethnography is about ethnoses. What else ? The revolution is supported by arguments weightier than mere verbal suggestiveness; but by way of persuasive consideration, etymology is also invoked

Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Ethnic group · Ethnography · Etymology · Feeling · Identity (music) · Jargon · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Social anthropology · Social science · Sociology · Soviet union · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Soviet and Russian History