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Theoretical Issues of the Ethnos and of the Ethnic. From Blood-Kinship to Territorial Community
Theoretical Issues of the Ethnos and of the Ethnic. From Blood-Kinship to Territorial Community

Author(s): Tosho Spiridonov
Subject(s): History, Anthropology, Social Sciences, Cultural history, Ethnohistory, Ancient World, Middle Ages, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure
Published by: Институт за балканистика с Център по тракология - Българска академия на науките

Summary/Abstract: The text raises theoretical issues of the ethnos and of the ethnic with a view to the еthnogenesis and ethnic consolidation prior to the industrial age: from prehistorical times to the Middle Ages. The first range of issues is related to content analysis of the ethnic, whereby the ethnic components are examined as being composed of ethnic nucleus and ethnic syntagma, and are presented on the basis of the example of the wedding rite. The principal parameters of the ethnic self-awareness are outlined, which is to be acquired through accelerated mastering of the ethnic specificities of the new community. The second range of issues refers to the ethnic processes. Based on a purely academic segmenting of the object of research, i.e., of the “ethnos/ethnic” system, it can be divided into two parts, each of which comprises in turn separate subsystems, components and elements. Each system is alive when it functions, i.e., when certain processes develop in it.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 20
  • Page Range: 55-82
  • Page Count: 28
  • Language: English