How diverse are the approaches among ethnologists, anthropologists, ethnographers – whatever they call themselves – who are engaged with Belarus both as researchers as well as its citizens? What issues do they address, what methods do they use, and what theoretical fields do they refer to?
We have abandoned disciplinary distinctions such as ethnology, anthropology, folklore studies, and others, although they do exists in contemporary Belarus. We have sought to preserve and convey what can be called the Belarusian intellectual context, in which researchers move and of which they are a part. We also wanted to show the spectrum of this intellectual context as it is reflected in the differences between the modes of writings of the articles in this volume, their themes, the logic, methodology and theoretical approaches. Our goal is to show the spectrum in which the academics who base their work on research in Belarus move.
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