Process Of Ethnogenesis Research Articles

Creating Ethnicity: The Process of Ethnogenesis

Creating Ethnicity: The Process of Ethnogenesis

Creating ethnicity: the process of ethnogenesis

The Making of Natural Feelings Problems, Concepts and Theoretical Starting Point Indian Status The Hurons of Quebec Indian Political Ideology and Harder Facts `French' Expertise and `French' Autochthony Closer to Reality Coversations with Huron Citizens The Aymara of Turco, Hurons in Reverse The Luba of Kasai (Zaire) New `White' Ethnics Ethnic Minorities in Belgium Among Potential Equals Final Reflections Ethnic Subtleties

Ethnos—State or Process? (Landscape and Ethnos, X1)

AbstractThe author takes issue with the view expressed by M. I. Artamonov, an archeologist, that an ethnos, or ethnic group, represents a social state rather than a process. In the author's view, ethnos IS a vast system in constant development, which tends to be stabilized by endogamy and undermined by exogamy. An ethnic hierarchy is proposed to illustrate the process of ethnogenesis. It ranges from the lowest order of ethnic grouping, a consortium, through subethnos, ethnos and superethnos to mankind as a whole. Each order in the hierarchy is distinguished by particular forms of associations, trends of development and culminating phases. The concept of ethnos as an ongoing process is illustrated with reference to ethnic change in ancient China and in the Ottoman empire.

The Man-Nature Relationship According to the Data of Historical Geography and Ethnology (Landscape and Ethnos, X)

AbstractThe establishment of a new ethnos, or ethnic community, is attributed to a burst of energy or an innate drive that enables members of the community to break with past traditions and behavioral patterns and to begin building a new set of values distinguishing the new ethnic group from others. The ethnos is viewed as both a social and a biological phenomenon, with the social aspect represented by the group's relations with other groups and institutions and the biological by the behavior of the ethnos as a biological population. The innate drive exhibited by ethnic groups in the early stage of ethnogenesis is viewed as a biological feature. In general this drive is fostered by the practice of endogamy, but there are situations in which an ethnically mixed community, resulting from exogamy, also generates the energy required to initiate the process of ethnogenesis. Although the existence of the ethnic drive can be demonstrated by reference to history and historical geography, an explanation of this fo...

On the Anthropogenic Factor in Landscape Formation (Landscape and Ethnos VII)

AbstractIn attempting to classify anthropogenic factors of landscape formation, Gumilev rejects Arnold Toynbee's concept of challenge and response as the factors underlying the genesis of civilizations on the ground that it ignores the factor of ethnic differentiation. Gumilev finds that the principal changes introduced by man into the landscape are associated with certain short-term periods of superhuman effort that coincide with intensive processes of ethnogenesis. This intensive activity is followed by a damping inertia that leads ultimately to a new equilibrium between the ethnos and the environment until the next upsurge of activity.