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Social movement of Ural Germans in 1989–2019 (ethnic projects and leaders)
The present article considers the history of the social movement of Russian Germans in the Urals, as well as the factors in its formation, on the basis of previously unknown sources (archival and field materials obtained by the author).
T.S. Kisser
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British Muslims and In-Between Identities from Urban Anthropology Viewpoint [PDF]
This article presents findings from the study of identities of contemporary British Muslims, UK citizens and residents of London, Manchester, Oldham, Bradford, and other cities.
Karavaeva, D., null null, Karavaeva D.
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This paper discusses female spaces and rituals in two sacred sites in the Albanian-Slavonic borderlands that are shared by Christian and Muslim communities.
Aleksandra Dugushina
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New visualization method for cranial carvings of Rapanui wooden figurines
Abstract Precontact culture of Easter Island (Rapa Nui) produced wooden figurines carved with attention to detail and featuring careful surface polishing. These figurines depict humans and akuaku spirits. Male figurines usually have bald heads adorned with elaborate designs carved in low relief, depicting human beings, fishes, birds, chimerical ...
Rafal Wieczorek, Paul Horley
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Some sculpture-anthropology relations:reading the agency of Franz Boas and Lev Sternberg
This article deliberates arguments for sculpture being considered ‘the most anthropological of the arts’. After introducing British contentions for the anthropological aspect of sculpture (Barlow, Gell, Ades and Bunn), it then applies, not without a hint
Howard, Jeremy Charles +2 more
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Gemstone Names from the Wörter und Sachen Perspective: On the Origin of Russian Orlets ‘Rhodonite’ [PDF]
The article considers the history of the word orlets, one of the names of rhodonite (located mainly in the Middle Urals). The author traces the changes in the semantics of this word from its first mention in Russian lexicography at the end of the 18th ...
Berezovich, E., Elena Berezovich
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Writing the History of the Northern “Field” : An Introductory Note [PDF]
This issue became possible thanks to two research projects “Etnos: A Life History of the Etnos Concept among the Peoples of the North” (ESRC, UK) and “Etnos and Minzu: Histories and Politics of Identity Governance in Eurasia” (The Leverhulme Trust, UK ...
Dmitry V. Arzyutov, Arzyutov, Dmitry
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Introduction. The purpose of the article is to find out the state of Jochi numismatics in the Russian Empire by the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries. The novelty of the research.
Alexander Pachkalov
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Kostenki 4 ground stone tools in the collection of Kunstkamera museum (MAE RAS)
Tools made of soft rock materials at the Upper Paleolithic sites are usually represented by pebbles that were used for various domestic purposes without intentional modification of their shape. In the Neolithic period, the anisotropic stone raw materials were processed for manufacturing tools (such as axes, adzes, chisels, etc.) by abrasion — grinding,
Maria Zheltova, Sergey Lisitsyn
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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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