Constructed Images of Ethnic Culture among the Diaspora from [Tajikistan's] Pamirs in St. Petersburg

Many factors influence the construction of ethnic cultural images in a diaspora. In the case of the Pamiris [pamirtsev] in St. Petersburg, one such factor is the need to incorporate themselves into the system of views about various cultures in the receiving country. The Pamiris understand their role as the role of a cultural “alien” [chuzhogo], standing lower in the cultural hierarchy relative to the receiving society. Such phenomena correlate with Martin Barker's writing on cultural racism. In light of this approach, I show the transformation of perceptions of tolerance in the diaspora, relative to understanding of tolerance in Isma'ilism, the religious teaching of the Pamir people. I examine why the space where the community gathers is positioned as a museum and why the museum exhibition is aimed at “exoticizing” the ethnic culture

Alien · Art history · Diaspora · Ethnic culture · Ethnic group · Exhibition · Hierarchy · Political science · Sociology · Anthropology · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations · Demography · Gender Studies · History · Law · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology · Soviet and Russian History

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