- Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Historical Anthropology, Central Asian Studies, Russia, and 30 moreInner Asia, Inner Asian Studies, Pastoral nomadism, Eurasian Nomads, Eurasian Nomadic Cultures, Eurasian Nomadism, Eurasia, Archaeology of the Eurasian steppe belt, Scythian and other Eurasian Nomadic Horse Warrior Cultures, Ancient and Medieval Warfare, Ethnicity and Nationalism, Post-communist transformations, Collective Memory, State Formation, Early State Formation, Religious Conversion, Ancient Near East, Medieval Near East, Achaemenid Persia, Parthian Empire, Silk Road Studies, Sarmatians, Hsiung-nu, Cross Cultural Interactions, Archaeology of the Eurasian Steppe, Ethnicity, Nationalism, Sassanian Persia, Totalitarianism, and Post-totalitarianismedit
- Anatoly M. Khazanov is Ernest Gellner Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison an... moreAnatoly M. Khazanov is Ernest Gellner Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Distinguished Visiting Professor of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is Fellow of the British Academy, Corresponding Member of the UNESCO International Institute for the Study of Nomadic Civilization, and Honorary Member of the Central Eurasian Society. He has published and edited 19 books and volumes and is the author of over 200 articles and other scholarly publications.edit
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Las caravanas con sus particularidades históricas se encuentran en tierras áridas y montañosas de diferentes partes del mundo. Comparten rasgos comunes tales como: animales domesticados con morfologías particulares y rasgos conductuales... more
Las caravanas con sus particularidades históricas se encuentran en tierras áridas y montañosas de diferentes partes del mundo. Comparten rasgos comunes tales como: animales domesticados con morfologías particulares y rasgos conductuales queimponen restricciones a la acción humana; patrones de movilidad de comunidades forrajeras y pastoriles especializadas; rutas de senderos eficientes dependientesde oasis y paraderos que sirvieron como estaciones de comercio, intercambio y aprovisionamiento; representaciones (?arte?); estructuras e hitos cercanos y/o relacionados con senderos caravaneros; y su continua destrucción a consecuenciadel desarrollo moderno.Fil: Clarkson, Persis B.. University of Winnipeg; CanadáFil: Santoro, Calogero M.. Universidad de Tarapacá; ChileFil: Levy, Thomas E.. University of California; Estados UnidosFil: Núñez, Lautaro. Universidad Católica del Norte; ChileFil: Nielsen, Axel Emil. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Rosen,...
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I would like to start with a few explanatory remarks. First, with regard to the nature of the Soviet state, I am on the side of those scholars, the ‘cold war warriors,’ as they are sometimes called by their revisionist opponents, who... more
I would like to start with a few explanatory remarks. First, with regard to the nature of the Soviet state, I am on the side of those scholars, the ‘cold war warriors,’ as they are sometimes called by their revisionist opponents, who consider it totalitarian (Friedrich and Brzezinski, 1965; Laqueur, 1994; Malia, 1994; Pipes,11995: 240ff.; Tormey, 1995; Linz and Stepan, 1996: 40ff.; Linz, 2000; on the history of debate, see Siegel, 1998). I have already argued my position in other works (Khazanov, 1995, 2004), and I do not see any reason to dwell on this question in this chapter. Suffice it to say that those who declared the totalitarian model to be politically incorrect and analytically wrong ignored the fact that the Soviet Union shared all three main characteristics of totalitarianism: ideology, organization (a single and mass party with a strict hierarchical structure), and terror (the arbitrary right to resort to any means of violence and compulsion), as pointed out already by Hannah Arendt (1966). Moreover, without denying (any) significant change that the country underwent after Stalin’s death, I hold that it remained essentially totalitarian, ideological, and repressive, until the perestroika period, when for a few years the late totalitarianism gave way to authoritarianism. One may agree with Michnik (1985: 7) that there is no such thing as non-totalitarian ruling communism; it either becomes totalitarian or it ceases to be communism.
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Anatoly KHAZANOV, La situation ethnique en Union Sovietique vue par l'anthropologie sovietique. ; Le present article s'attache a demontrer que, bien que l'anthropologie passe en Union Sovietique pour la science de l'ethnos... more
Anatoly KHAZANOV, La situation ethnique en Union Sovietique vue par l'anthropologie sovietique. ; Le present article s'attache a demontrer que, bien que l'anthropologie passe en Union Sovietique pour la science de l'ethnos et que les anthropologues sovietiques aient consacre une attention particuliere aux etudes ethniques, ils n'ont pas pu decrire ni evaluer correctement les evenements ethniques actuels en URSS. Ils ont prefere ou ils ont simplement ete contraints de fournir des arguments « scientifiques » pour soutenir la ligne du Parti. C'est seulement en de rares occasions, a moitie en langue d'Esope, que certains d'entre eux ont releve des faits qui, dans des cas concrets, pouvaient sembler contredire les declarations officielles. ; Meme maintenant, a l'epoque de la glasnosť, la situation ethnique en Union Sovietique est analysee par l'opinion publique et par les representants d'autres disciplines avec beaucoup plus de hardiesse que par la majorite des anthropologues sovietiques. On peut se demander si cela ne tient pas a la situation qui s'est creee au sein de l'anthropologie sovietique meme et qui a conduit certains membres de son establishment a admettre a contrecœur leurs anciennes erreurs et les realites nouvelles.
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... closely identified with its titular head. In Deleuze and Guattari's case, this is also character-ized by the dual nature of this head (magician-king and jurist-priest) and by state order being internalized. As we shall see,... more
... closely identified with its titular head. In Deleuze and Guattari's case, this is also character-ized by the dual nature of this head (magician-king and jurist-priest) and by state order being internalized. As we shall see, the trope ...
Research Interests: History, Geography, Asian Studies, Anthropology, Pastoralism (Social Anthropology), and 14 morePolitical Science, Eurasian Nomads, Eurasia, Central Eurasian Studies, Central Asia, Cultural Anthropology, Nomadic Peoples, Multidisciplinary, Nomadism, Kinship, Columbia University, Pastoralism, Nomadic Pastoralism, and Nomadic/Indigenous People
... One of the early Soviet ethnographic affirmations of the feudalist thesis is to be found in R. Kabo. Ocherki istorii i ekonomiki Tuvy (Sketches of the History and Economy of Tuva), Gosudarstvennoe Sotsialno-ekonomicheskoe Izdatelstvo,... more
... One of the early Soviet ethnographic affirmations of the feudalist thesis is to be found in R. Kabo. Ocherki istorii i ekonomiki Tuvy (Sketches of the History and Economy of Tuva), Gosudarstvennoe Sotsialno-ekonomicheskoe Izdatelstvo, Moscow/Leningrad, 1934. ...
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The nomads of the Eurasian steppes, semi-deserts, and deserts played an important and multifarious role in regional, interregional transit, and long-distance trade across Eurasia. In ancient and medieval times their role far exceeded... more
The nomads of the Eurasian steppes, semi-deserts, and deserts played an important and multifarious role in regional, interregional transit, and long-distance trade across Eurasia. In ancient and medieval times their role far exceeded their number and economic potential. The specialized and non-autarchic character of their economy, provoked that the nomads always experienced a need for external agricultural and handicraft products. Besides, successful nomadic states and polities created demand for the international trade in high value foreign goods, and even provided supplies, especially silk, for this trade. Because of undeveloped social division of labor, however, there were no professional traders in any nomadic society. Thus, specialized foreign traders enjoyed a high prestige amongst them. It is, finally, argued that the real importance of the overland Silk Road, that currently has become a quite popular historical adventure, has been greatly exaggerated. Los nómadas de las estepas, semidesiertos y desiertos euroasiáticos desempeñaron un papel importante y múltiple en el tránsito regional e interregional y en el comercio de larga distancia en Eurasia. En tiempos antiguos y medievales, su papel superó con creces su número de habitantes y su potencial económico. El carácter especializado y no autárquico de su economía provocó que los nómadas siempre experimentaran la necesidad de contar con productos externos agrícolas y artesanales. Además, exitosos Estados y comunidades nómadas crearon una demanda por el comercio internacional de bienes exóticos de alto valor, e incluso proporcionaron suministros, especialmente seda, para este comercio. Sin embargo, debido a una subdivisión social del trabajo no desarrollada, no hubo comerciantes profesionales en ninguna de estas sociedades nómadas. Así, los comerciantes extranjeros especializados gozaron de un alto prestigio entre ellos. Finalmente, se argumenta que la importancia real de la ruta de la seda por tierra, que actualmente se ha convertido en una aventura histórica bastante popular, se ha exagerado enormemente. Palabras claves: nómadas de la estepa, comercio euroasiático, ruta de la seda, caravanas.
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Heavyhearted Recollections of Nurbulat Masanov (in Russian)
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After Socialism: The Fates of Pastoralism in Central Asia,
Mongolia, and Russia (in Russian)
Mongolia, and Russia (in Russian)
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... 12. S. Akiner, Op. cit., p. 261; E. Kh. ... 36. E. Pain, O probleme turok-meskhetintsev, in: Vsesoiuznaia nauchnaia sessiia po itogam polevykh etnograficheskikh i antropologicheskikh issledovanii 1988-1989 gg. (Alma-Ata, 1990), p.... more
... 12. S. Akiner, Op. cit., p. 261; E. Kh. ... 36. E. Pain, O probleme turok-meskhetintsev, in: Vsesoiuznaia nauchnaia sessiia po itogam polevykh etnograficheskikh i antropologicheskikh issledovanii 1988-1989 gg. (Alma-Ata, 1990), p. 144; E. Kh. Panesh and LB Ermolov, Op. cit., p. 23. ...
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co- editors I. V. Erofeeva, A. M. Khazanov, and L. E. Masanova (eds)
The nomad's contribution to the development of the world civilization. Amaty, Daik-press.
The nomad's contribution to the development of the world civilization. Amaty, Daik-press.
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Research Interests: Africa, Eurasian Nomads, Mongols, Nomadism, Iran, and 5 moreMiddle East, India, Arab world, Nomads, and Pastoral nomadism
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