"AZERBAIJANI ETHNOS", "AZERBAIJANI IDENTITY", DO THEY EXIST? T. VARDANYAN DISCUSSED IN HER BOOK
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"Russian Panorama" publishing house has published the book by Armenian
Candidate of Historian Sciences Tamara Vardanyan named "Azerbaijanis:
History of one uncompleted ethno-project: historian-ethnological
remark". The book is from the range "Caucasian researches". The book
is published by the decision of the scientific council of Institute
of Political and Social Researches of the Black Sea and Caspian Sea
region (director, professor Vladimir Zakharov). Armen Ayvazyan,
doctor of Political Sciences is the editor and the author of the
introduction of the book.
T. Vardanyan discussed some historical-ethnological thesis which are
used by Azerbaijani and some foreign authors without any alternative.
The thesis are about the creation of "Azerbaijani ethnos",
"ethnic Azerbaijani", "ethnic territory of Azerbaijan". The author
discusses in her book how it is legal to use them and especially in
the historical-scientific literature. T. Vardanyan touches upon to
the question whether it is right to consider Azerbaijani ethnos as
already completely formulated or this project is still going on.
The author studies forms of self-identification, inner and outer
processes of ethnos and the first signs of self-identifications
among the Muslims in Caucasus in order to find out the questions
presented above.
The book is intended for the historians, politicians, anthropologists,
orientalists, sociologists, experts on ethnos and nationalism and
also for the wide frame of the readers.
From: A. Papazian
http://times.am/?l=en&p=7864
"Russian Panorama" publishing house has published the book by Armenian
Candidate of Historian Sciences Tamara Vardanyan named "Azerbaijanis:
History of one uncompleted ethno-project: historian-ethnological
remark". The book is from the range "Caucasian researches". The book
is published by the decision of the scientific council of Institute
of Political and Social Researches of the Black Sea and Caspian Sea
region (director, professor Vladimir Zakharov). Armen Ayvazyan,
doctor of Political Sciences is the editor and the author of the
introduction of the book.
T. Vardanyan discussed some historical-ethnological thesis which are
used by Azerbaijani and some foreign authors without any alternative.
The thesis are about the creation of "Azerbaijani ethnos",
"ethnic Azerbaijani", "ethnic territory of Azerbaijan". The author
discusses in her book how it is legal to use them and especially in
the historical-scientific literature. T. Vardanyan touches upon to
the question whether it is right to consider Azerbaijani ethnos as
already completely formulated or this project is still going on.
The author studies forms of self-identification, inner and outer
processes of ethnos and the first signs of self-identifications
among the Muslims in Caucasus in order to find out the questions
presented above.
The book is intended for the historians, politicians, anthropologists,
orientalists, sociologists, experts on ethnos and nationalism and
also for the wide frame of the readers.
From: A. Papazian