| Titre | The ethnic situation in the Soviet Union as reflected in Soviet anthropology | |
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| Auteur | Anatoly Khazanov | |
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Revue |
Cahiers du monde russe Titre à cette date : Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique |
| Numéro | volume 31, no 2-3, avril-septembre 1990 Regards sur l'anthropologie soviétique | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | I |
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| Page | 213-221 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Anatoly Khazanov, The ethnic situation in the Soviet Union as reflected in Soviet anthropology.
The main aim of this paper is to demoastrate that despite the fact that in the Soviet Union anthropology is claimed to be the science of ethnicity, and that Soviet anthropologists have paid particular attention to ethnic studies, they have failed to describe and to adequately estimate modem ethnic developments in the USSR. Instead, they preferred, or simply had to provide "scientific" arguments in support of the Party line. Only on rare occasions and in a semi-Aesopian language few of them pointed out the facts that in specific cases might be considered as contradicting official claims.
Even now, in the period of glasnosť, the ethnic situation in the Soviet Union is much more boldly discussed by the public and by representatives of other disciplines than by a majority of Soviet anthropologists. A question may be asked, whether this fact is connected with the circumstances within Soviet anthropology itself which have led to a reluctance or resistance by some members of its establishment to admit old sins and new realities. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/cmr_0008-0160_1990_num_31_2_2219 |
