Editor’s Introduction: Urgent Anthropology: Gender, Ethnic Conflict, Migration, and Anti-Americanism

Q3 Arts and Humanities

Anthropology and Archeology of Eurasia Pub Date : 2019-07-03 DOI:10.1080/10611959.2019.1705745

M. Balzer

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At the end of the Soviet period, anthropologists influenced by Western trends and events within Eurasia began in unprecedented numbers to research and expose to wider audiences’ contemporary concerns under the rubric “Urgent Anthropology.”What is today termed “action anthropology” in the United States became a subset of innovative applied work in Russia that grew in part out of an internal “tradition” of writing classified government reports on causes of ethnic conflict. The more public style of “urgent anthropology,” under the directorship of Valery Tishkov at the then-Institute of Ethnography, became an Academy of Sciences series published in thick orange (subliminally code orange for warning?) pamphlets. Early coverage ranged from the Tajik civil war in Central Asia and separatism in the North Caucasus to mass media in Tatarstan, religious divisions in Ukraine, and religious splits within Islam. In the 1990s, pamphlets included “ethnopolitical situations” in various regions of Russia, and concerns of the “nearabroad” Russians in post-Soviet newly independent states. This issue features more current versions of excellent “urgent” research done on the crucial themes of gender, ethnic conflict, migration, and antiAmericanism.When I selected these articles, I envisioned simply presenting a sample of “hot issues” of our times. On rereading, I realized that the Anthropology & Archeology of Eurasia, vol. 58, no. 3, 2019, pp. 117–122. © 2020 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC ISSN: 1061-1959 (print)/ISSN 1558-092X (online) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10611959.2019.1705745

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编辑简介：《紧迫人类学：性别、种族冲突、移民与反美主义》

在苏联时期结束时，受西方趋势和欧亚大陆事件影响的人类学家开始以前所未有的数量，在“紧迫人类学”的标题下，研究并向更广泛的观众展示当代关注的问题。今天在美国被称为“行动人类学”的东西在俄罗斯成为了创新应用工作的一个子集，部分源于撰写关于种族冲突原因的政府机密报告的内部“传统”。在当时的民族志研究所Valery Tishkov的领导下，更公开的“紧急人类学”风格成为了科学院的一个系列，以厚橙色（潜意识中橙色表示警告？）小册子出版。早期的报道从中亚的塔吉克内战和北高加索的分离主义到鞑靼斯坦的大众媒体、乌克兰的宗教分裂以及伊斯兰教内部的宗教分裂。20世纪90年代，小册子包括俄罗斯各地区的“民族政治局势”，以及后苏联新独立国家中“近邻”俄罗斯人的担忧。本期以性别、种族冲突、移民和反美主义等关键主题的优秀“紧急”研究为特色。当我选择这些文章时，我设想简单地展示我们时代的“热点问题”样本。重读时，我意识到《欧亚大陆人类学与考古学》，第58卷，2019年第3期，第117–122页。©2020 Taylor&Francis Group，LLC ISSN:1061-1959（印刷版）/ISN 1558-092X（在线版）DOI:https://doi.org/10.1080/10611959.2019.1705745

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期刊介绍： Anthropology and Archeology of Eurasia presents scholarship from Russia, Siberia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, the vast region that stretches from the Baltic to the Black Sea and from Lake Baikal to the Bering Strait. Each thematic issue, with a substantive introduction to the topic by the editor, features expertly translated and annotated manuscripts, articles, and book excerpts reporting fieldwork from every part of the region and theoretical studies on topics of special interest.