Victor Schnirelmann

Victor Alexandrovich Schnirelmann ( b. 18 May 1949, Moscow; frequently spelled Shnirelman in his English-language publications) is a Russian historian, ethnologist and a member of Academia Europaea (since 1998). Quotes [Nationalist concerns in the former U.S.S.R. are creating] an explicitly ethnocentric vision of the past, a glorification of the great ancestors of the given people, who are treated as if they had made the most valuable contribution to the culture of all humanity. Shnirelman , v. a . 1995. Alternative prehistory. Journal of European Archaeology 3(2):1–20. quoted in Lamberg-Karlovsky, C.C. (2002). Archaeology and Language. Current Anthropology, 43, 63 - 88. Shnirelman (1995:1), in Lamberg-Karlovsky, C.C. (2002). Archaeology and Language. Current Anthropology, 43, 63 - 88. External links Category:1949 births Category:Historians from Russia Category:Living people