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I have to agree with Patty (because for me ethnohistory must have a foot in the door of the present), but as Dimitry's past work from Altai shows (and perhaps even more so his current work on ethnos), some contemporary Russian ethnography will (also) swim in traditionally western 'anthropological' waters. I am curious to see where other young Russian scholars will go with the 'ethnography vs. anthropology' debate, and to what extent anthropology will be fleshed out in Russia in the coming years. One provocative question I am being asked almost constantly by non-academic friends in Russia is "And what is the practical application/pay-off of this anthropological work?" None of my attempts to answer their questions seem to satisfy my friends. The response is always that in Russia there is no money for theoretical pursuits.
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