Ethnic processes within the Turkic population of the West Siberian plain (sixteenth-twentieth centuries)
Abstracts
From the sixteenth through to the twentieth century the Siberian Tatars developed into a single ethnic community, and already in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries they began to crystallize into a single historical and ethnic community. A peculiarity of the ethnic processes taking place among them was that as a result of the absence of conditions for transforming the Siberian Tatars into an ethno-social organism, chief of which was their scattered settlement, what happened instead was their consolidation into an ethnos qua ethnikos. This process did not come to fruition, but it did result in the Siberian Tatars conceiving of themselves from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries as a meta-ethnic (interethnic) community, close to an ethnos. As a result of their ethnic interactions with the Volga-Ural Tatars at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries, a general meta-ethnic community came into being comprising the Tatars of the Volga-Ural region and Siberia, but a unified Tatar nation was not formed at that time. The Siberian Tatars' ethnic contacts with their neighbors resulted in partial assimilation with Russians, the assimilation of part of the Tura Tatars with the Mansi, the merging of some Eushtas with the Chulym Turks, and the assimilation of part of the Tobol'sk Tatars with the Irtysh Khanty.
References
Bibliographical reference
Nikolaj A. Tomilov, “Ethnic processes within the Turkic population of the West Siberian plain (sixteenth-twentieth centuries)”, Cahiers du monde russe, 41/2-3 | 2000, 221-232.
Electronic reference
Nikolaj A. Tomilov, “Ethnic processes within the Turkic population of the West Siberian plain (sixteenth-twentieth centuries)”, Cahiers du monde russe [Online], 41/2-3 | 2000, Online since 15 January 2007, connection on 28 March 2024. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/monderusse/44; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/monderusse.44
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