Abstract
The article critically examines the history of formation of the nomenclature of indigenous peoples of the Russian/Soviet North, and the part that personal preferences and ideological attitudes of politicians and scholars had played in it. The author analyzes the connection between aspects of modernism and postmodernism and the theoretical construction of ethnogenesis. He discusses various clichés that had formed in the Soviet rhetoric and the opposition of “stability–changeability” as applied to the people of the North.
Keywords
Ethnicity, ethnic history, ethnogenesis, indigenous peoples of the North, ethnonyms, sustainable development concept, modern, postmodern
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