On Antinomies and Contemporary Conflicts within Ethnology
This article analyzes conflicting methodological approaches in contemporary ethnology (primordialism vs. instrumentalism / constructivism, and «theory of ethnos» vs. «theories of ethnicity»). The author holds that these confrontations reflect a deeper opposition, between objectivist and subjectivist paradigms. Employing history and scientific methodology, the conflict between these opposing paradigms in ethnology is defined as an antinomy. The article proposes a solution to unify these opposites.