EtnoAntropologia, 2018 The monographic section of this issue of EthnoAnthropology is dedicated to the history of the Russian anthropological sciences, to the museography and methodology of ethnographic research and finally to the visual anthropology in Russia.
Alberto Baldi
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In search of the authentic nation: landscape and national identity in Canada and Switzerland [PDF]
, 1998 While the study of nationalism and national identity has flourished in the last decade, little attention has been devoted to the conditions under which natural environments acquire significance in definitions of nationhood.
Alter Peter +97 more
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Modern formation, ethnic reformation: the social sources of the American nation [PDF]
, 2002 The question, 'When is the nation?', ranks second in importance only to the related query, 'Why is the nation?' in the contemporary social science and humanities literature on nationalism.
Kaufmann, Eric P.
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Away with linguists! Normativity, inequality and metascientific reflexivity in sociolinguistic fieldwork [PDF]
, 2013 This paper addresses the fact that in spite of the descriptive and well-intentioned ambitions of much sociolinguistic-ethnographic research, members of studied groups often continue to interpret such research as a largely vertically organized socio ...
Jaspers, Jürgen, Meeuwis, Michael
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Historical and Ethnographical Publications in the Vernaculars of Colonial Zambia: Missionary Contribution to the 'Creation of Tribalism' [PDF]
, 2003 This essay examines the chronology and attributes of literate ethno-history in Northern Rhodesia. While the earliest published authors were invariably members of missionary societies whose evangelical policies were predisposed towards the ...
Macola, Giacomo
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Vernacular museum: communal bonding and ritual memory transfer among displaced communities [PDF]
, 2015 Eclectically curated and largely ignored by the mainstream museum sector, vernacular museums sit at the interstices between the nostalgic and the future-oriented, the private and the public, the personal and the communal.
Baudrillard Jean +29 more
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The Missing Link of Jewish European Ancestry: Contrasting the Rhineland and the Khazarian Hypotheses [PDF]
, 2012 The question of Jewish ancestry has been the subject of controversy for over two centuries and has yet to be resolved. The "Rhineland Hypothesis" proposes that Eastern European Jews emerged from a small group of German Jews who migrated eastward and ...
Alexander +48 more
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Does Age Structure Forecast Economic Growth? [PDF]
Increases in the proportion of the working age population can yield a "demographic dividend" that enhances the rate of economic growth. We estimate the parameters of an economic growth model with a cross section of countries over the period 1960 to 1980 ...
David Canning +3 more
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Exploring Ethnocracy and the Possibilities of Coexistence in Beirut [PDF]
, 2016 In response to James Anderson’s article “Ethnocracy: Exploring and extending the concept”, this article revisits some of the extensive discussions of Lebanon’s political sectarianism through the prism of ethnocracy to the extent that it contributes to an
Kastrissianakis, Konstantin
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Contraception and the Celtic Tiger [PDF]
New cross-country evidence for 1965 to 1995 is presented on the link that runs from population change to economic growth. The estimates indicate that demographic change is a powerful determinant of income growth, operating mainly via the effect of ...
David Canning, David E. Bloom
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