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    <journal-meta>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">AHUK</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Acta Historica Universitatis Klaipedensis</journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="epub">1392-4095</issn>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">1392-4095</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>KU</publisher-name>
      </publisher>
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    <article-meta>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">13_057-069_MAZEIKIS</article-id>
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          <subject>Article</subject>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title>Challenge of Imagined Societies for Political Anthropology in Lithuania</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="Author">
          <name>
            <surname>Mažeikis</surname>
            <given-names>Gintautas</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:mazeikisg@yahoo.com">mazeikisg@yahoo.com</email>
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          <xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1">∗</xref>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_AHUK_aff_000">Šiauliai University</aff>
      </contrib-group>
      <author-notes>
        <corresp id="cor1"><label>∗</label>Corresponding author.</corresp>
      </author-notes>
      <volume>13</volume>
      <fpage>57</fpage>
      <lpage>69</lpage>
      <pub-date pub-type="ppub">
        <day>20</day>
        <month>12</month>
        <year>2006</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>20</day>
        <month>12</month>
        <year>2006</year>
      </pub-date>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-year>2006</copyright-year>
        <copyright-holder>Klaipėda University</copyright-holder>
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      <abstract>
        <p>The aim of the article is to discuss the origins and issues of neo-tribalist and neo-pagan movements and their cultural, political, educational, international effect in Lithuania. The main object of our investigations is activities of modern neo-Semigallians (žiemgaliai) and Samogitians (žemaičiai). The main problem for analysis is the kind of impact Lithuanian ethnology has on supporting new imagined identities and modern consumer demands support for making new cultural, social, and historical identities.</p>
      </abstract>
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        <label>Keywords</label>
        <kwd>socio-cultural anthropology</kwd>
        <kwd>neo-tribalism</kwd>
        <kwd>neo-pagans</kwd>
        <kwd>historical visions</kwd>
        <kwd>ethnographical visions</kwd>
        <kwd>new mythologisation</kwd>
        <kwd>pop cultural identities</kwd>
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