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Explore Ethnicity

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The playing cards make note of the presence of 57 different ethnic groups.

In some cases the cards use ethnonyms (names of ethnic groups) that are unfamiliar to our ears. In other cases they use ethnonyms that are no longer used. No matter what, we reproduce the vocabulary used in the cards. Where relevant, we include alternate terms. 

Even before you begin digging into the data, you might notice a glaring absence: Russians. Russians are listed as inhabitants of 62 of the 77 provinces described on the cards. They were, in other words, almost everywhere. Including them in the tag cloud would have had the same effect as that of a bright full moon on what would otherwise have been a starry sky. By leaving them off the list here, we are able to see the other constellations. Although the Russian tag does not appear in the cloud above, it is at work in our system. If you are interested in finding out which provinces had, for example, both German and Russian inhabitants, you will be able to do so. (You can head over to the data viz section to explore the locations of a subset of ethnic groups.)

One final note: Don't lose sight of the fact that "Deal" tells you only whether or not an ethnic group is mentioned on a playing card. Nothing more, nothing less.

Ready to explore? 

Click/drag any colored dot to reveal the associated provinces. Click a second time to collapse the connections. Or click a province name to open up all of its own connections. Drag the dots around the screen as needed.

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  1. Card Sortings Kelly O'Neill

Contents of this tag:

  1. Tatars
  2. Germans
  3. Poles
  4. Nogays
  5. Jews
  6. Persians
  7. Finns
  8. Wallachians
  9. Ukrainians
  10. Aleuts
  11. Belorussians
  12. Gypsies
  13. Lithuanians
  14. Mordvinians
  15. Mongols
  16. Moldovans
  17. Meshchers
  18. Swedes
  19. Lezgins
  20. Latvians
  21. Ossetians
  22. Ostiaks
  23. Samoeds
  24. Serbs
  25. Kenaitsy
  26. Teptiars
  27. Tungus
  28. Turkmen
  29. Yukagirs
  30. Yakuts
  31. Kuriltsy
  32. Armenians
  33. Cheremis
  34. Greeks
  35. Bashkirs
  36. Bulgarians
  37. Buriats
  38. Chagach
  39. Chukuts
  40. Chuvash
  41. English
  42. Eskimos
  43. Estonians
  44. Georgians
  45. Kalmyks
  46. Karelians
  47. Lamuts
  48. Indians
  49. Bukharans
  50. Cherkess
  51. Khivans
  52. Votiaks

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