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Etnická identita a jazykové postoje mládeže v Kalmycké republice (Rusko)

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Šatava L.

Český lid: etnologický časopis (Český lid: Ethnological journal)

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2009

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vol. 96

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issue 3

263-277

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The basic sociolinguistic questionnaire survey on some aspects of the present-day ethnolinguistic situation among the youth of the Kalmyk Republic (Russian Federation) confirmed a number of expected facts and hypotheses. In the main it is the considerable domination of Russian over the Kalmyk language. Specific is also the level of ethnic consciousness, at which the declaration of Kalmyk nationality prevails among the respondents of Kalmyk background; this fact, nevertheless, frequently ranges between the confines of ethnic and civil concepts of “nationality” and the link to the Kalmyk language competence is not strict and binding either. At the same time, the statistical processing of the survey, however, showed crucial differences between respondents depending on the type of study, sex and place of origin; the calculation of the (non)homogeneity of responses yielded highly informative findings. It was the students of the lower secondary school in Šin Mer village (one of the few places where Kalmyk is still the language of communication of all generations) which emerged as “the most Kalmyk” out of the investigation. Students of Kalmyk Studies at the Kalmyk University came second. Thus, despite much progress and success in the field of ethnic-linguistic revitalization, the level of Kalmyk identity and language problems of Kalmykia remain a multivalent and open issue.

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The Historical Memory of Ethnic Poles in Belarus: A Cultural and Ideological Palimpsest

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LASTOUSKI A.

Historia i Polityka

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2014

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issue 12(19)

9-21

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This article examines the main characteristics of the historical memory of Poles in Belarus, allowing to speak about the special image of the past within this ethnic group. The canon of historical and cultural figures is analyzed, as well the relationship between historical grand narrative and family memory that creates a trend of “escape” from the rigid interpretations of the past.

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Zielone ludy Padanii. Plemienne fantazje i ekonomiczne interesy włoskich separatystów

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Golemo K.

Politeja : Pismo Wydziału Studiów Miedzynarodowych i Politycznych Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego

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2014

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issue 5(31/1)

433-458

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The article presents the genesis and the evolution of the Northern Italian separatist movement initially aiming at the foundation of the autonomist Padanian Republic. Among the main dimensions of the pro‑independence tendencies manifested by the members and followers of the Northern League party there are ethno‑linguistic diverseness and strong economic position which distinguishes the Northern regions of Italy from the rest of its territory. The article focuses on the analysis of both socio‑cultural and political‑economic backgrounds of the separatist tendencies. It underlines the special role of Celtic mythology and pagan symbols in the construction of the Padanian identity. The strategies of the political communication of the Northern League are described in relation to the Padanian rhetoric manifested through the electoral posters and slogans of the party.

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Conceptualization and symbolization of ethnic identity: Serbs in Hungary

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Prelić M.

Český lid: etnologický časopis (Český lid: Ethnological journal)

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2011

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vol. 98

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issue 3

239-260

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The paper is based on a long-lasting research carried out among the members of Serbian ethnic/national minority in Hungary. The research focused on the topic of ethnic identity. This paper is an attempt to derive the actual concept of ethnic identity out of its results, together with the manner in which it is symbolized in the case of the observed group. The approach assumes that (eth-nic) identity is a socio-cultural construction, whereas the results are based on statements and behavior of the group members themselves - those who declare themselves as Serbs.

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Między tożsamością etniczną a marką globalną. Antropologiczna analiza klubu FC Barcelona jako katalońskiej marki etnicznej

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Prabucki B.

Sprawy Narodowościowe

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2012

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issue 41

167-182

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The article describes a very interesting phenomenon: connections between identity, ethnicity, sport (especially football) and marketing – being used to create an ethnic brand in the contemporary global world. The author examines the example of the “nation without a state,” Catalans, and their famous football club, FC Barcelona, to indicate how they use their ethnic and cultural heritage to make an interesting market “product,” binding local features with global openness. Contemporary reality seems to put ethnic identity in danger. However, the case of Catalans and FC Barcelona shows that it is possible to link identity and culture with global market’s needs.

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Rola sieci społecznych w procesie migracji edukacyjnych przedstawicieli mniejszości litewskiej do litewskich i polskich miast

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Wójcikowska-Baniak K.

Studia BAS

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2019

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issue 4(60)

199-219

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The aim of this paper is to explore the social networks of the young generation of Lithuanian minority and the role of social networks in educational migration patterns, both domestic migration and migration to Lithuania. The analysis is based on the ongoing fieldwork conducted among representatives of the Lithuanian minority, inspired by the “multi-sited etnography” tradition. The author discusses the socio-economic and demographic background of the Lithuanian community in Poland, and explains how the migration changes the identification and practices of migrants, with particular attention given to the adaptation process.

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Reorganisation of Ethnic Space in the Context of the Challenges of Globalisation

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Nowak J.

Polish Sociological Review

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2010

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vol. 169

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issue 1

87-98

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In this essay I will analyse selected aspects of the process of arranging traditional space in the face of the challenges of modernity. Progressive globalisation, cultural changes, social transformations-all these processes have influenced the ways local communities manage their territory. I will mainly deal with the phenomenon of reterritorialisation, focus on how identification with territory is reinforced in local communities. I will show how cultural legacy, characteristic of a given region, shapes particular versions of locality and globalisation.The role of ethnicity in these processes is of special interest. Is ethnic identification still taken into account in social strategies embedded in the processes of globalisation? In the first part I argue that modernity introduces irreversible changes to the character of existing and ethnically defined space. The second part includes arguments supporting the thesis about the necessity of adjusting to modern strategies of region management, which must entail partially giving up territorial identity protection. In spite of this, in the process of ethnic construction of a region, space seems to constitute a social framework which determines points of reference for collective action and conceptualisation of new reality

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Being Macedonian: Different types of ethnic identifications in the contemporary Republic of Macedonia

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Kaytchev N.

Politeja : Pismo Wydziału Studiów Miedzynarodowych i Politycznych Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego

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2014

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issue 4(30)

123-131

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The article reviews different forms of ethnic Macedonian (Macedonist) identities in the contemporary Republic of Macedonia. The classic model elaborated in the post‑war Yugoslavia – postulating that Macedonians are a separate Slav nationality forged in the medieval period and marked in its genesis by the influence of Sts. Cyril and Methodius and their pupils – after 2006 was substituted by a different paradigm making the nationality a thousand years older and deriving it from ancient Makedones and the state of Alexander the Great. The focus of the contribution is on a third little known variety of ethnic Macedonian identity that claims that the distinct Macedonian nation is a comparatively recent phenomenon forged in the years around the Second World War. Such views are spread among two wider groups: firstly, those of the elder Macedonians, contemporaries of 1940s that personally experienced the national transformation at the time, and, secondly, that of the younger educated citizens that respect the imperatives of reason and search for the rational resolution of different societal problems including the nation‑related ones. Since the current environment in the Republic of Macedonia strongly discourages the articulation of such viewpoints they have a semi‑dissident statute. Nevertheless, some prominent members of the intellectual elite have the courage to disclose their views, most consistent among them being Prof. Denko Maleski, former foreign minister and permanent representative to the UN and the son of the creator of the text of the Macedonian national anthem, as well as the journalist Branko Trichkovski. Both stem from the old left‑wing Yugoslav‑Macedonian elite. On the other hand, figures from the right‑wing political spectre, including the former prime minister Lyubcho Georgievski, though departing from a different starting point, are coming to similar conclusions on the recent naissance of the Macedonian nation. These identifications are in harmony with the dominating concepts in the European historiography affirmed and developed in the later decades by authors such as Hugh Poulton, Jan Rychlík and Ulf Brunbauer. The contribution limits its scope to the three different types of identifications within the Macedonist framework and does not study the Macedonian Slav identities that remain beyond its range – those of Macedonian Bulgarians and of Macedonian Serbs.

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Ethnic and Regional Identity in Polish Part of Spiš Region (On the Example of Jurgów Village)

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Bagín V.

Ethnologia Actualis

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2014

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vol. 14

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issue 1

78-94

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In my study I am focusing on the issue of national and regional identity of Spiš region inhabitants. The researched Jurgów village belongs to territory situated on the frontier between two states and at the same time between two regions. In the study I analyze the question of stereotypes present in the locality concerning gorals from the neighbouring Podhale region and Slovak part of Spiš region. In addition to that I deal with analysis of importance and understanding of space and border for the identity of local population. On the basis of the empirical data analysis results I observe that the identity of the researched village population is shaped by the fact that it belongs to the frontier territory where crossborder cultural and social interaction occurs.

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Current Manifestations of the Ethnic Identity of Transylvanian Saxons

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Drs T.

Ethnologia Actualis

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2015

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vol. 15

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issue 2

46-65

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The study ‘Current Manifestations of the Ethnic Identity of Transylvanian Saxons’ presents this ethnic minority in Romania. Based on the theoretical concepts of T. H. Eriksen, it deals with the issues of the ethnic identity and its contemporary manifestations in the culture of Transylvanian Saxons. Information gathered during the qualitative field research make it possible to capture changes in the manifestations of the ethnic identity and the relationship between the minority and the majority culture. As a result of modernization processes and large-scale emigration, there has been a change of the group’s mentality, with traditional behaviour patterns and models of social coexistence disintegrating. The need has arisen to revise the ethnic identity of the community. The observed aspects of the ethnic identity include ethnicity and Saxon self-concept, Saxon dialect, Saxon Evangelical Church, festivities, minority education and interethnic relations. Attention is also paid to the opinions of Saxon politicians and intellectuals of the current situation of the society and its future direction.

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Tubylcze szkolnictwo wyższe w Arktyce. Wybrane problemy i egzemplifikacje

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Gmerek T.

Rocznik Pedagogiczny

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2014

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vol. 37

109-126

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The article include the consideration of social functions of higher education for indigenous minorities living in the Arctic. Particular emphasis was placed on reconstructing educational practices and the language policy that is implemented toward indigenous minorities in Alaska, Canadian Arctic, Greenland, northern regions of Scandinavia and Northern Russia. An attempt was made at examining the relationship between higher education, language policy, and the development of ethnic identity.

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Łemkowie — tylko „inni” czy aż „obcy”?

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Misiak M.

Kształcenie Językowe

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2018

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vol. 16 (26)

57 - 69

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The Lemkos are a group of Ruthenian population, whose history is closely linked with that of Poland. Historically, they emerged as a fully distinct ethnographic entity in the Polish Carpathians, that is within the Polish state. The article is an attempt to answer the question: how are the Lemkos perceived by the Poles, who for centuries have constituted their natural social and national milieu? There is no doubt that the Lemkos differ from the Poles in their customs, language and religion. But are they strangers? In the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth the Polish gentry regarded the Ruthenians living in the Commonwealth as part of the Polish community. In the Second Polish Republic they enjoyed all the rights of Polish citizens. Shortly after the war, in 1944–1947, they were forcibly moved by the communist authorities from their little homeland in the Beskid Mountains. Today, as surveys conducted among the Poles show, the Lemkos are a group practically unknown to ordinary Poles.

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The (Non)Memory of “Ethnic Childhood” as a Dimension of Cultural Heritage

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Kożyczkowska A.

Kultura i Edukacja

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2023

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issue 4(142)

9-22

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Today, ethnic minorities have entered the second wave of emancipation. They are fighting for the right to cultural autonomy, the right to have their own past, history and social memory. The aim of the article is to learn how ethnic minorities “recover” lost social memory in the area of childhood memory and how they work to create ethnic identity again. The text is composed of four parts. The first presents selected aspects of childhood culture. The second is presents Pierre Nora’s concept of memory. The third is presents the results of research on selected ethnic literary texts (Kashubian and Silesian). The author’s conducted semantic and structural analyzes (in the approach of Roland Barthes and Paul Ricoeur). The analyzes allowed us to recognize ethnic childhood as a space of existential suffering and a time of loss of ethnic identity. The answer – in childhood and adulthood – are specific identity strategies. they are aids in constructing a new ethnic identity. The fourth part is Summary and reflection closing the text.

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Buniewcy z Bački – język i tożsamość

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Vuković P.

Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne

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2015

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issue 8

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Bunjevci from the region of Bačka are a deeply divided community: some of them believe they are a separate ethnic group with a distinct language, while others claim they are a subgroup of Croats and speak a Croatian dialect. The paper explains historical roots of the group’s divided ethnic consciousness and explores its consequences on the construction of their contemporary identities. First, the formation of Bunjevci as a pre-modern ethnicity in Dalmatia is discussed. It is followed by an account of historical experiences of those of them who later migrated to the Danube region in Hungary. The paper is concluded by a comparison between the Bunjevci’s two models of language regulation and politics of memory.

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Roviny novodobé lužickosrbské etnické identity

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Šatava L.

Český lid: etnologický časopis (Český lid: Ethnological journal)

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2016

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vol. 103

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issue 3

419-436

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The text concentrates on issues concerning the beginnings, development and current situation of the Sorbian ethnicity and ethnic identity in the region of Lusatia (Germany) from 1800 to the present. The given phenomenon is observed throughout the course of the 19th century which: 1) accelerated the transformation of Sorbs into the modern era ethnic group, enabling them to undergo a relatively successful “national revival”; 2) the same period, however, saw the acceleration of the language and ethnic assimilation (Germanization). Furthermore, attention is paid to the development, specifi c features, quests, possibilities and limits in the field of Sorbian ethnic consciousness in the 20th and 21st centuries; emphasis is laid on the present-day situation. Closer analyses and ensuing interpretations focus on social and psychological factors of the given problem range, as well as on political connotations. A dichotomous situation between the primordial and (post) modernist approaches to understanding ethnicity in Lusatia is also commented on in detail. Finally, the role of Sorbian elements as the common denominator of Lusatian regionalism is dealt with as well.

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Jugoslávci a jugoslávství v letech 1966–1971. Mezi politickými doktrínami a národním cítěním

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Selinić S.

Slovanský přehled: historická revue pro dějiny střední, východní a jihovýchodní Evropy (Slavonic Review: Review for Central, Eastern and Southeastern European history)

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2016

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vol. 102

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issue 3

423-449

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Between the end of the 1960s and beginning of the 1970s the nationality question was opened up again in socialist Yugoslavia. One of the issues discussed among the political elite of that period was how to approach to ethnic Yugoslavism. For the most part, the Yugoslav communist elite approached ethnic Yugoslavism, an identity that some of the country’s social groups spontaneously professed, for the most part negatively. They evaluated it as an attempt at revivifying the interwar Yugoslav unitarism or as a ruse behind which was hidden Great Serbian chauvinism. The communist leadership was at most willing to tolerate Yugoslavism as an ideological construct that expressed citizens’ positive attitude towards the functioning of their shared Yugoslav state.

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Religious Diversity for the Sake of Ethnic Unity? Shamanism and Buddhism in Creating Buryat Ethnic Identity

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Nowicka E., Poleć W.

Polish Sociological Review

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2019

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vol. 206

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issue 2

237-248

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Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, religious revival has played an important role in the changes taking place in the lives of peoples who inhabit Siberia. Religion has been regarded as one of the most important factors shaping national consciousness and, at the same time, one of the primary means through which national identity can be expressed. Nonetheless, religious diversity can affect this process of forging national bonds. Buryats are a culturally diverse people, divided along religious lines, thus engendering problems when a religious system is implemented for the purposes of modern nation building. Some Buryats advocate for the universal adoption of Buddhism, while others advocate shamanistic beliefs. Tensions arise from the fact that shamanism is prevalent throughout the lands occupied by ethnic Buryats while Buddhism is in fact territorially limited; the latter, however, is still institutionally and territorially more significant.

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ЭТНИЧНОСТЬ: СУЩНОСТЬ И СТРУКТУРА

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Černâvskaâ Û.

Acta Neophilologica

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2009

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vol. XI

151-163

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The paper is devoted to essence of ethnicity and its structure. It is written from the point of view of the “soft constructivism”. Ethnicity is designed not by elites in the mobilization purposes, it is broad by masses in a daily life, from this research position. The structure of ethnicity includes such components as: ethnic borders, ethnonimes, myths, ethnic time and territory, stereotypes, expectations, roles, an ethnic image and three types of ethnic identity. Owing to such structure ethnicity is a dynamical phenomenon.

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Geographical and Mental Boundaries of Ukrainian Identity

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Vasiutynskyi V.

Journal of Geography, Politics and Society

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2023

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vol. 13

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issue 1

30-41

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The purpose of the research is to establish correspondence between the geographical and mental boundaries of the Ukrainian ethno-political identity. A theoretical and comparative analysis and generalization of historical, geographical, political and sociological theses and data have been applied. The research determines the external boundaries (between Ukraine and the surrounding countries) and internal ones (between the regions of Ukraine). It demonstrates the exceptional importance of the Ukrainian identity opposition to the Russian mental influences. Ukraine is divided into three main regions. Central Ukraine is a mental basis for the Ukrainian identity and political nation. Western Ukraine is notable for the highest level of national consciousness and Ukrainian patriotism. South-Eastern Ukraine is characterized by stronger competition of the Ukrainian and Russian values, but simultaneously by dominating Ukrainian identity.

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“Let’s Rise Up, Sons of this Country“: Social Transformations in Papua-New Guinea after Independence

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Soukup M.

Národopisná revue (Journal of Ethnology)

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2018

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vol. 28

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issue 3

198 - 208

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The study focuses on the analysis of social political and economical transformations in connection with the decolonization of the former Territory of Papua and New Guinea. The study core includes an analysis of colonial arrangements and its influence on the transformation of society at the time before the independence and after the formation of the independent state of PapuaNew Guinea. Special attention is paid to the analysis of the formation of elites and working classes within the former equalitarian communities, the blending of original, i.e. Big-Man systems with politics, and the influence of monetary economics on the former systems of socio-political ceremonial exchanges. The author documents how the colonial arrangement influenced the segmented ethnic identity of the inhabitants in the state of Papua-New Guinea, which the author understands as a vertical scale of ethnic consciousness. In the case of Papua- New Guinea the author shows that ethnic identity is divided into four levels: the country, the provincial, the territorial and the national one. Simultaneously, the author documents that in addition to the vertical division, also the horizontal division developed in the new state, which is result of the commencement of monetary economics.

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Etnická identita a jazykové postoje mládeže v Kalmycké republice (Rusko)

The Historical Memory of Ethnic Poles in Belarus: A Cultural and Ideological Palimpsest

Zielone ludy Padanii. Plemienne fantazje i ekonomiczne interesy włoskich separatystów

Conceptualization and symbolization of ethnic identity: Serbs in Hungary

Między tożsamością etniczną a marką globalną. Antropologiczna analiza klubu FC Barcelona jako katalońskiej marki etnicznej

Rola sieci społecznych w procesie migracji edukacyjnych przedstawicieli mniejszości litewskiej do litewskich i polskich miast

Reorganisation of Ethnic Space in the Context of the Challenges of Globalisation

Being Macedonian: Different types of ethnic identifications in the contemporary Republic of Macedonia

Ethnic and Regional Identity in Polish Part of Spiš Region (On the Example of Jurgów Village)

Current Manifestations of the Ethnic Identity of Transylvanian Saxons

Tubylcze szkolnictwo wyższe w Arktyce. Wybrane problemy i egzemplifikacje

Łemkowie — tylko „inni” czy aż „obcy”?

The (Non)Memory of “Ethnic Childhood” as a Dimension of Cultural Heritage

Buniewcy z Bački – język i tożsamość

Roviny novodobé lužickosrbské etnické identity

Jugoslávci a jugoslávství v letech 1966–1971. Mezi politickými doktrínami a národním cítěním

Religious Diversity for the Sake of Ethnic Unity? Shamanism and Buddhism in Creating Buryat Ethnic Identity

ЭТНИЧНОСТЬ: СУЩНОСТЬ И СТРУКТУРА

Geographical and Mental Boundaries of Ukrainian Identity

“Let’s Rise Up, Sons of this Country“: Social Transformations in Papua-New Guinea after Independence