Ethnicity and ethnicities. Part I
Ethnicity and ethnicities. Part I

Summary/Abstract: Scientific paradigm changes are frequently accompanied by the reconsiderationof central terms and ideas. This article demonstrates how this process is currentlyunderway in Russian anthropological studies [narodovedenie] as part of a broadermove away from ethnography to theoretical ethnology. The article also showslines of succession and divergence between various paradigms currently dominantin Russian anthropology, including primordialism and constructivism, andpresents the author’s vision of a definition of “ethnicity”, instrumentsneeded to study ethnicities, the nature of “ethnicity,” the underlying axiomson which ethnicities are conceptualized. An initial attempt has beenmade in the article to outline the central positions that would provide for a principallynew ethnological paradigm by way of a new definition of the phenomenonof ethnicity.

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