Levon Abrahamyan

Levon H. Abrahamian (; born January 2, 1947)

Recognition Abrahamian is a corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia (2006).

Research and publications Abrahamian's anthropological research focuses on ancient and modern Armenia and Armenians, including Armenian identity, comparative mythology, rituals, urban anthropology and the cultures of Australia and Oceania. and Armenian Identity in a Changing World (2006) received positive reviews.

Books Abrahamian, Levon. Primitive Festival and Mythology (1983). Yerevan: Academy of Sciences of Armenian SSR Press (in Russian) Abrahamian, Levon, and Nancy Sweezy, eds. Armenian Folk Arts, Culture, and Identity (2001). Indiana University Press Conversations Near a Tree. Moscow: Languages of Slavonic Cultures, 2005, in Russian Abrahamian, Levon. Armenian Identity in a Changing World (2006). Mazda Publishers Kharatyan, Hranush; Shagoyan, Gayane; Marutyan, Harutyun; Abrahamian, Levon. Stalinist Repressions in Armenia: History, Memory [Ստալինյան բռնաճնշումները Հայաստանում. պատմություն, հիշողություն, առօրյա] (2015). "Gitutyun" Publishing of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia (in Armenian)

Articles "On Schneider's Symbolic Culture Theory", Current Anthropology, Vol. 21, No. 2 (Apr., 1980), pp. 255–256 "The secret police as a secret society: fear and faith in the USSR" Russian Social Science Review 35, no. 3 (1994), pp. 81–95. "Typology of Aggressiveness and National Violence in the Former USSR", International Journal on Minority and Group Rights, Vol. 4, No. 3/4, (1996/97), pp. 263–278 "Lenin as a trickster" Anthropology & archeology of Eurasia 38, no. 2 (1999), pp. 8–26. "The Chained Hero: The Cave and the Labyrinth", Iran & the Caucasus, Vol. 11, No. 1 (2007), pp. 89–99 "From Carnival Civil Society Toward a Real Civil Society: Democracy Trends in Post-Soviet Armenia" Anthropology & archeology of Eurasia 50, no. 3 (2012): pp. 11–50. "Velvet Revolution, Armenian Style", Demokratizatsiya, vol. 26, n. 4, Fall 2018