NurtureIsNature

In this article, Mark Bassin explores Lev Gumilev's theory of ethnicity. Developing his ideas in the context of post-Stalinist debates about the relationship of society to the natural world, Gumilev maintained that theetnoswas a wholly natural, quasi-biological entity. Although this naturalism involved an important genetic dimension, Gumilev denied that ethnicity was determined by race and emphasized instead its ecological quality as an organic part of biogeocenoses or natural-landscape ecosystems. Although he remained marginalized in his day by the Soviet ethnographic establishment, his essentialist perspective is powerfully appealing for post-Soviet audiences, who find his "ecology of ethnicity" singularly useful for the purposes of ethnopolitical discourse

Archaeology · Biology · Context (archaeology · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Essentialism · Ethnic group · Ethnography · Geography · Natural (archaeology · Naturalism · Nature versus nurture · Perspective (graphical · Sociology · Anthropology · Ecology · Eurasian Exchange Networks · Philosophy · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology · Soviet and Russian History

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