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The Cultural Identity of the Iraqi Kurds: Methodological Approaches to the Study
- Authors: Malygina I.V.1, Nekrasova T.P.1
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- Moscow State Linguistic University
- Issue: No 4(872) (2023)
- Pages: 154-162
- Section: Cultural studies
- URL: https://journal-vniispk.ru/2542-2197/article/view/351982
- ID: 351982
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The article is devoted to identifying the cultural foundations of Iraqi Kurdish identity and justifying the methodology for studying this phenomenon. The authors emphasize the dominant role of ethnic elites in the consolidation of Iraqi Kurds over the past hundred years, justifying the heuristic potential and methodological limitations of constructivism and instrumentalism in the study of people's identity. The justification of the complex structure of Iraqi Kurdish identity, due to the layering of tribal / clan, ethnic and national identities, also requires an appeal to primordialist methodology.
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Irina Viktorovna Malygina
Moscow State Linguistic University
Author for correspondence.
Email: irinamalygina@yandex.ru
Doctor of Philosophy (Dr.habil.), Professor, Head of the Department of World Culture, Institute of Humanitarian and Applied Sciences
Russian FederationTatiana Petrovna Nekrasova
Moscow State Linguistic University
Email: nekir08@mail.ru
PhD Student of the Department of World Culture, Institute of Humanitarian and Applied Sciences
Russian FederationReferences
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