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The Tenacity of Ethnicity
Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Pädagogik
Beschreibung
Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer combines extensive field research with historical inquiry to produce a dramatic study of a minority people in Russia, the Khanty (Ostiak) of Northwest Siberia. Although First Nations, indigenous peoples, have often been victims of expansionist state-building, Balzer shows that processes of acquiring ethnic identity can involve transcending victimhood. She brings Khanty views of their history and current life into focus, revealing multiple levels of cultural activism. She argues that anthropological theory and practice can derive from indigenous insights, and should help indigenous peoples.
Balzer brings to life the saga of the Khanty over several centuries. She analyzes trends in Siberian ethnic interaction that strongly affected minority lives: colonization, Christianization, revitalization, Sovietization, and regionalization. These processes incorporate suprastate and state politics, including recent devastations stemming from the energy industry's land thefts. Balzer documents changes that might seem to foreshadow the demise of indigenous ethnicity. Yet the final chapters reveal ways some Khanty have preserved cultural values and dignity in crisis. Khanty identity has varied with the politics of individuals, groups, and generations. It has been shaped by recent grass-roots mobilization, ecological activism, and religious revival, as well as older historical memory, language-based solidarity, and loyalty to a homeland. The Tenacity of Ethnicity demonstrates how at each historical turn, Siberian experiences shed new light on old debates concerning colonialism, conversion, revitalization, ethnicity, and nationalism. This volume will be important for political scientists, historians, and regional specialists, as well as anthropologists and sociologists.
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Christianity, Christianization, Ethnic conflict, Psychology, Yukagir, Revitalization movement, Russians, Demography, Syncretism, Bride price, Intelligentsia, Missionary (LDS Church), Divination, Affirmative action, Nationality, Political party, Surgut, Sacred grove, Propaganda in the Soviet Union, Shamanism, Yasak, Acculturation, Tobolsk, Christian mission, Politics, Deity, Ethnic nationalism, Narrative, Cossacks, Theft, Perestroika, Awareness, Colonialism, Activism, Advocacy, Household, Reincarnation, Russification, Burial, Ethnography, Ideology, Animal sacrifice, Civilization, Soviet Union, Prejudice, Salekhard, Sovietization, Veneration of the dead, Indigenous peoples, Sakha Republic, Wealth, Missionary, Tax, Endogamy, Competition, Smallpox, Ethnic group, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Colonization, Protest, Communism, Phratry, Russian Orthodox Church, Tomsk, Chauvinism, Paganism, Religion, Tatars, Culture change, Anthropologist