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Paper short abstract:

A correlation of the political and ethnogenetic processes leads to unified and homogeneity of the potestal-political formation. All this creates the ethnopotestarity organisms. Such mechanism of the emergence of the ethnicity is the modus of potestarity.

Paper long abstract:

In ethnological theory an ethnogenetic process is treated as the unity of several moduses such as autohtonity, ethnolinguistic continuity, migration and dispersion. At the same time existing data about various ethnic groups let us expands this list of the moduses by the modus of potestarity. For example, a lot of great ethnoses of the contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa (the Ashanti, the Malinke, the Yoruba, the Bakuba, the Banyarwanda, the Baganda, the Zulus, the Bagirmi etc.) appeared as the result of potestarity-political processes of precolonial epoch. An ethnonymics gives testify this, because many African ethnonyms are obviously derivative from the politonyms, and even coincides with the names of the polities. The latter in most cases are the toponyms and usually are the names of the capital of the polity.

The potestal-political structure and first of all the unified system of power and government are conducive to strengthen a wholeness of the political organisms, because it ensures a domestic intensive contacts and exchange of information. Another words, it stabilizes of the political system and creates the pre-conditions for consolidation of inhabitants into the unified cultural and linguistic communality. A correlation of the ethnogenetic and political processes leaded the inhabitants to self-awareness of their ethnic specific features. The latter is denotes the unified and homogeneity of the potestal-political formation. Naturally all this creates the ethnopotestarity organisms. Such mechanism of the emergence of the ethnicity is the modus of potestarity.