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- catalog abstract "The diversion of scholarship on ethnicity by political forces has been studied in Nazi Germany, where folklore became central to national self-perception and consequently suffered from uncritical enthusiasms. Who Gets the Past? is one of the first studies of this phenomenon in another arena. In the Middle Volga region of Russia, the intellectuals of two ethnic groups are engaged in a protracted competition for the right to claim descent from various ancestries, most dating to the first millennium A.D. Archaeologists from the Chuvash and the Tatar ethnic groups are attempting to present evidence connecting the groups with Turkic-speakers, Finnish-Ugric groups, Bulgars, or Sarmatians. At stake are territorial and political advantages, according to Victor Shnirelman. Who Gets the Past? tells how and why, from the Stalinist period to the present, these intellectuals have made different, sometimes self-contradictory, claims on the past. The Soviet legacy of reinforcing and politicizing ethnic identities is largely responsible for the original extent of the competition, according to Shnirelman. But the importance of ethnic claims since the Soviet breakup has only contributed to its persistence.".
- catalog contributor b8220451.
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "1. The Mythologization of Ethnic History -- 2. The Effect of Soviet Ideology on Anthropological Theory -- 3. The Tatars and the Chuvash under the Soviet Regime -- 4. The Rivalry for the Bulgar Legacy -- 5. Variants of Ethnohistory: The Tatars -- 6. The Neo-Bulgarists -- 7. Variants of Ethnohistory: The Chuvash -- 8. Ethnogenesis and Ethnopolitics.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 77-92) and index.".
- catalog description "The diversion of scholarship on ethnicity by political forces has been studied in Nazi Germany, where folklore became central to national self-perception and consequently suffered from uncritical enthusiasms. Who Gets the Past? is one of the first studies of this phenomenon in another arena. In the Middle Volga region of Russia, the intellectuals of two ethnic groups are engaged in a protracted competition for the right to claim descent from various ancestries, most dating to the first millennium A.D. Archaeologists from the Chuvash and the Tatar ethnic groups are attempting to present evidence connecting the groups with Turkic-speakers, Finnish-Ugric groups, Bulgars, or Sarmatians. At stake are territorial and political advantages, according to Victor Shnirelman.".
- catalog description "Who Gets the Past? tells how and why, from the Stalinist period to the present, these intellectuals have made different, sometimes self-contradictory, claims on the past. The Soviet legacy of reinforcing and politicizing ethnic identities is largely responsible for the original extent of the competition, according to Shnirelman. But the importance of ethnic claims since the Soviet breakup has only contributed to its persistence.".
- catalog extent "ix, 98 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Who gets the past?".
- catalog identifier "0801852218 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Who gets the past?".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Washington, DC : Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,".
- catalog relation "Who gets the past?".
- catalog spatial "Russia (Federation) Volga River Region.".
- catalog subject "947/.8004943 20".
- catalog subject "Bulgars (Turkic people) History.".
- catalog subject "Chuvash (Turkic people) Ethnic identity.".
- catalog subject "DK34.T37 S55 1996".
- catalog subject "Ethnology Russia (Federation) Volga River Region.".
- catalog subject "Tatars Ethnic identity.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. The Mythologization of Ethnic History -- 2. The Effect of Soviet Ideology on Anthropological Theory -- 3. The Tatars and the Chuvash under the Soviet Regime -- 4. The Rivalry for the Bulgar Legacy -- 5. Variants of Ethnohistory: The Tatars -- 6. The Neo-Bulgarists -- 7. Variants of Ethnohistory: The Chuvash -- 8. Ethnogenesis and Ethnopolitics.".
- catalog title "Who gets the past? : competition for ancestors among non-Russian intellectuals in Russia / Victor A. Shnirelman.".
- catalog type "text".