From internationalism to nationalism: forgotten pages of Soviet archaeology in the 1930s and 1940s

Shnirelman, Victor; Kohl, Philip L.; Fawcett, Clare

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511558214.008

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“…These striking similarities call out for more research in the future. Postwar European archaeology further shows that interest in ethnicity is not merely of itself enough to develop a critical approach to prehistoric diversity (Shnirelman, 1995). A view of ethnicity and diversity that does not simply reproduce the nation and nationalism is essential to a mature and critical archaeology.…”

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confidence: 99%

Pots not People

Hudson

2006

Critique of Anthropology

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■ This article considers the relationship between identity politics and archaeological interpretations of ethnicity in postwar Japan. Although race and ethnicity were important concepts in early Japanese archaeology, from the 1930s a new interpretive paradigm based on archaeological cultures began to dominate the discipline. After the end of the Second World War, Japanese archaeologists became increasingly concerned with sociopolitical issues relating to democracy and peace, but the continued absence of explicit discussion of prehistoric ethnicity has tended to reinforce the primordialist view of ethnic identity that became common in postwar Japanese society. This article discusses the use of ethnicity in Japanese archaeology, citing examples from Hokkaido, Okinawa, and the Jômon-Yayoi transition. It is argued that the lack of emphasis afforded to ethnicity in postwar archaeology in Japan reflects interest in other sociopolitical issues rather than theoretical naivety with respect to identity politics.

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Hudson

2006

Critique of Anthropology

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“…Although the foremost Scythian scholar in the late 1920s, Boris Grakov, continued to draw on migration theories in his writings (Mordvintseva 2013, 207).  Shnirelman 1996, 231.  Yilmaz 2015 ans and particularly archaeologists to talk about ethnogenesis, which earlier had been suspect.…”

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“… See Formozov 2006, 76-79.  Among these was a new iteration of the long-running Normanist/anti-Normanist controversies on the role of the Vikings in early Russian history, see Melnikova 2013.  Shnirelman 1995, 234.…”

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13. Russian Perspectives on Eurasian Pasts

Fabian

2019

Handbook of Ancient Afro-Eurasian Economies

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For the last three centuries, the ancient pathways running across the Eurasian steppe belt have fallen along the southern fringes of the Russian Empire and its proximate successors, the Soviet Union, and now the Russian Federation, as well as a constellation of post-Soviet states. There has been a long and robust research tradition about Eurasia within the Russian academic sphere-the intellectual space anchored in St. Petersburg and Moscow, but extending far beyond. The Russian school of research on ancient Eurasia, as a result of direct and regular contact with the diverse territories of the Black Sea, the western and eastern reaches of the Eurasian steppe, and Central Asia, offers a wide-angle view on historical, social, and economic developments across the sweeping territory (map 1). It is a perspective

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“…For his part, the dissident ethnologist Shirokogoroff strived to give the ethnic group a definition in terms both of an unstable organism and of a conscious identity (Shirokogoroff 1936;Gaussiot 1997). Unfortunately all these efforts which had a certain influence in the West on Gordon Childe, Andr6 Leroi-Gourhan and Pedro Bosch-Gimpera, declined rapidly under the Stalinist dictatorship, with the return of a vision both nationalist and overwhelmingly evolutionist, promoted by the linguist Mar and his followers (Shnirelman 1995).…”

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Ethnicity, culture and identity: French archaeologists and historians

Demoule

1999

Antiquity

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The state of French archaeological theory has been recently covered by two French-authored papers in English (Audouze & Leroi-Gourhan 1981; Cleuziou et al. 1991). These articles emphasize the weight of national tradition and demonstrate the unique position of France between two great currents of European, indeed world, archaeology: Germanic (concerned with cultural and chronological classification) and English-speaking (more interested in general interpretative models). These two articles also ponder another phenomenon: the relative absence of French archaeology in theoretical — notably post-processual — debate.

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From internationalism to nationalism: forgotten pages of Soviet archaeology in the 1930s and 1940s

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