Ethnos Post-Mortem: Thoughts and Comments
[Etnos post-mortem: razmyshleniia i kommentarii]
Type of publication: Research Article
Submitted: 23.09.2021
Accepted: 26.09.2022
About author(s)
Sergei Alymov | http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9988-9556 | alymovs@mail.ru | Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences (32a Leninsky prospect, Moscow, 119991, Russia)
Lev Perepelkin | http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4400-2011 | leonethnography@yandex.ru | Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences (Rozhdestvenka St. 12,
Moscow, 107031, Russia)
Sergei Sokolovskiy | http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0112-0739 | sokolovskiserg@gmail.com | Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences (32a Leninsky prospect, Moscow, 119991, Russia)
Valery Tishkov | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5479-9039 | valerytishkov@mail.ru | Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences (32a Leninsky prospekt, Moscow, 119991, Russia)
Viktor Shnirelman | http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8469-6583 | shnirv@mail.ru | Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences (32a Leninsky prospekt, Moscow, 119991, Russia)
Dmitry Verkhovtsev | http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9232-2952 | dverhovtcev@gmail.com | Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences (32a Leninsky prospect, Moscow, 119991, Russia)
Keywords
theory of ethnos, ethnos, ethnicity, history of Russian anthropology, Yulian Bromley, Lev Gumilev
Abstract
This article presents critical comments and responses to the essay “Ethnos PostMortem: Soviet Theories of Ethnos in Present Day Russian-Language Discourses” [Etnos post-mortem: sovetskie teorii etnosa v sovremennom russkoiazychnom diskurse] by Dmitry Verkhovtsev, in which the author ponders over the use and misuse of the notion of ethnos in Russian academic and non-academic milieus during the last three decades, pointing to the striking fact that, despite the critique within the anthropological community, this notion has been simultaneously and steadily gaining weight and influence outside it. This discussion features contributions by Sergei Alymov, Lev Perepelkin, Sergei Sokolovskiy, Valery Tishkov, and Viktor Shnirelman.
Funding Information
This research was supported by the following institutions and grants: Russian Science Foundation, https://doi.org/10.13039/501100006769 [grant no. 22-18-00241] (recipients D. Verkhovtsev, S. Alymov, V. Shnirelman)
Citation
Alymov, S.S., L.S. Perepelkin, S.V. Sokolovskiy, V.A. Tishkov, V.A. Shnirelman, and D.V. Verkhovtsev. 2022. Etnos post-mortem: razmyshleniia i kommentarii [Ethnos Post-Mortem: Thoughts and Comments]. Etnograficheskoe obozrenie 6: 102–131. https://doi.org/10.31857/S0869541522060070 EDN: MRLFIG
Full text is distributed by eLIBRARY.ru