The Russian Molokan Colony at Guadalupe, Baja California: Continuity and change in a sectarian community

TitleThe Russian Molokan Colony at Guadalupe, Baja California: Continuity and change in a sectarian community
Publication TypeThesis
Year of Publication1992
AuthorsMuranaka, T
Academic DepartmentAnthropology
DegreePhD
UniversityUniversity of Arizona
KeywordsMexico
Abstract

Migration, ethnicity and cultural pattern are reviewed. The research questions how accurately the prehistoric archaeologist can interpret migration and ethnicity by means of a review of the modern migration of a group of Russian sectarians to Baja California, Mexico. Excavations undertaken in seven households at different levels of assimilation with their Mexican and Indian neighbors suggests that material culture does reflect ethnicity under these best of all archaeological circumstances. A methodology for the determination of prehistoric migrations is suggested. It concludes that "cultural pattern" is a more useful concept than "ethnicity" in the determination of archaeological migrations.

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