Soviet Ethnology And Anthropology Today

by: Бромлей, Юлиан Владимирович, 1921-1990, ed.

Publication date: 1974

Topics: Soviet Ethnology, Soviet Anthropology, USSR, history of Soviet science, history of Russian science, anthropogenesis, sociogenesis, ethnic processes in modern society, V. Aleksejev, В. Алексеев, Юлиан Бромлей, Yulian Bromley, ethnos, V. Kozlov, В. Козлов, Ethnic Community, Ethnic Processes in the USSR, Yu. Arutjunjan, Юрий Арутюнян, Tatar ASSR, E. Vasiljeva, Е. Васильева, V. Pimenov, В. Пименов, L. Khristoljubova, Л. Христолюбова, Udmurtia, A. Pershits, А. Першиц, Soviet Ethnography, A. Khazanov, А. Хазанов, Military Democracy, Class Formation, Yu. Levin, Юрий Левин, Kinship, Culture Studies, E. Markarjan, Е. Маркарян, S. Tokarev, С. Токарев, Methods of Ethnographic Research, Material Culture, S. Arutjunov, С. Арутюнов, Modernization in Non-European Urbicultures, S. Bruk, С. Брук, World Population, Demographic-Ethnographic Cartography, M. Chlenov, М. Членов, D. Deopik, Toponymics Geographical Place-Name Areas Substratum, Ya. Roginskij, Я. Рогинский, V. Jakimov, В. Якимов, Race Studies, V. Aleksejev, В. Алексеев, Racial Differentiation, Race Formation, G. Debets, Г. Дебец, A. Zubov, А. Зубов, Dental Anthropology, V. Bunak, В. Бунак, Genetic-Geographical Zones, Eastern Europe, ABO Blood Groups

Collection: opensource

Language: English

The Hague; Paris: Mouton, 1974. — 404 p.

The scientific interests of Soviet ethnologists and anthropologists cover a broad field of topics ranging in time from anthropogenesis and sociogenesis to ethnic processes in modern society and in space embracing the whole ecumene. The publication in English of selected recent works by Soviet authors in these fields from the scientific press of the USSR is an urgent and important task. The articles contributed to this collection are either forwarding the theory of ethnology and anthropology or summarizing the results of extensive investigations in certain areas. For lack of space there are numerous works dedicated to more detailed case studies which unfortunately are outside the limits of this collection. The editors hope that the twenty articles which constitute this volume can provide our colleagues throughout the world with a sufficiently adequate though incomplete outline of main trends in the development of ethnology and anthropology in the USSR in the last decade. The recent works of Soviet ethnologists are especially focused on the main object of study in this discipline, the ethnos. They aim at illuminating the concept of the ethnos and regularities of ethnic processes both in the past and in modern times. These problems have unequivocally become the central topics in the development of theoretical ethnology for the recent decade.

Contents

Preface

Introduction

Yu. Bromley. Ethnographical Studies in the USSR, 1965-1969
V. Aleksejev. 50 Years of Studies in Anthropological Composition of Population in the USSR

Ethnology

The Notion of"Ethnos" and Typology of Ethnic Communities

Yu. Bromley. The Term Ethnos and its Definition
V. Kozlov. On the Concept of Ethnic Community

Contemporary Ethnic Processes in the USSR

Yu. Arutjunjan. Experience of a Socio-Ethnic Survey (Relating to the Tatar ASSR)
E. Vasiljeva, V. Pimenov, L. Khristoljubova. Contemporary Ethnocultural Processes in Udmurtia (Program and Method of Investigation)

Social Organization

A. Pershits. Early Forms of Family and Marriage in the Light of Soviet Ethnography
A. Khazanov. "Military Democracy" and the Epoch of Class Formation
Yu. Levin. A Description of Systems of Kinship Terminology

Problems of Culture Studies

E. Markarjan. Review of the Book Ocherki teorii kultury [Essays on the Theory of Culture]
5. Tokarev. Methods of Ethnographic Research into Material Culture
S. Arutjunov. Modernization in Non-European Urbicultures

Ethnology and Adjoining Sciences

S. Bruk. Atlas of the World Population (Basic Problems of Demographic-Ethnographic Cartography)
M. Chlenov, D. Deopik. Toponymy and Language (On the Problem of Differentiating the Substratum of Geographical Place-Name Areas)

Anthropology

Problems of Anthropogenesis and General Questions of Anthropology

Ya. Roginskij. Patterns in the Links between Characteristics in Anthropology
V. Jakimov. Basic Trends in the Adaptive Radiation of the Apes at the End of the Tertiary and the Beginning of the Quaternary Periods

Problems of Race Studies

V. Aleksejev. About Racial Differentiation of the Human Species. Primary Centers of Race Formation
G. Debets. Essay on the Graphical Presentation of the Genealogical Classification of Human Races
A. Zubov. Dental Anthropology and the Historical Sciences
V. Bunak. Genetic-Geographical Zones of Eastern Europe by ABO Blood Groups