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Making ethnicity in southern Bessarabia : tracing the histories of an ambiguous concept in a contested land /
"In Making Ethnicity, Simon Schlegel offers a history of ethnicity and its political uses in southern Bessarabia, a region that has long been at the crossroads of powerful forces: in the 19th century between the Russian and Ottoman Empires, since World War I between the Soviet Union and Romania...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Eurasian studies library ;
v. 14. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Maps and Figures; Notes; Chapter 1; Introduction; 1 Central Questions; 2 History and Anthropology, Some Methodological Implications; 3 Locating the Field Site and Choosing a Name for It; 4 A Brief Historical Outline; 5 Ethnicity, Natsional'nost', and Nationality: Definitions and Translations; 6 Chapter Structure; Chapter 2; Administering the Periphery from Horseback; 1 The State's Hunger for Tax and Men; 2 Colonists out of the State's Sight; 3 Keep It Separate, Keep It Simple; 4 Bureaucracy Evolving: the Church Gives Way to the State
- 5 The Categories of the Census Taker and the Ethnographer6 Ethnicity in Revolutionary Minds; Chapter 3; Persuasion and Paranoia-Romania's Rule in Bessarabia 1918-44; 1 Newcomer Elites in a Hostile Land; 2 Spying on Minorities; 3 Counting and Categorizing Minorities; 4 Ethnicity as a Proxy for Trustworthiness; 5 Bringing the Past into Line; 6 Eugenics and Ethnic Cleansing; Chapter 4; Politically Desirable Theory and Its Way into Folk Theory; 1 The Imperial Roots of Diverging Ethnicity Concepts; 2 Self-Identification vs. Ascription-Who Gets to Draw Ethnic Boundaries?
- 3 State-Approved Concepts of Ethnicity in Post-War Soviet Academia4 Gut Feeling and Folk Theories of Ethnicity; 5 Grand Scheme Planning and the "Primordial Trap"; Chapter 5; Ethnic Minorities and Soviet Newcomers; 1 Ethnicity and the Hierarchy of Trust in Post-War Southern Bessarabia; 2 The Stewards of a New Model State; 3 Ethnicity Performed in Public; 4 Soviet Education and the Friendship of Peoples; 5 Stagnation and Revived Ethnic Consciousness; Chapter 6; Post-Soviet Instability, Clientelism and the Persistence of Ethnic Boundaries; 1 The Power of Benefaction
- 2 The Roots of Clientelism in Ethnic and Non-Ethnic Networks3 Ethnicity in Local Politics: Three Strategies; 4 Political Representation and the Pressure to Choose a Clear-Cut Ethnic Identity; 5 When Clear-Cut Boundaries Encounter Fuzzy Identities; Chapter 7; The Narratives and Techniques that Maintain Ethnic Boundaries; 1 Pure and Impure Language; 2 Religion's Ambiguous Role in Marking Ethnicity; 3 Common Historical Experience and Collective Memory; 4 Processed Folklore; 5 Genetic Narratives of Ethnic Belonging; 6 Generalizing the Inside, Omitting the Outside; Chapter 8
- Conclusion-Delimiting Ethnic Groups as a Tool of Statecraft1 The Significance of Ethnicity: Continuities and Ruptures; 2 When Ethnic Boundaries Become Obstacles; 3 Ethnic Boundaries, Whom Do They Serve?; 4 Narratives and Techniques; 5 The Trouble with Fuzzy Boundaries; 6 Ethnicity as a Beacon of Stability; References; Bibliography; Index of Authors; Index of Subjects and Names