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ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INSTITUTE
BASIC INFORMATION
Director – Valery Tishkov, Ph.D., member of the Russian Academy of Science (RAS), director of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of RAS
Specialty – Anthropology and Ethnology
Qualification – Anthropologist and Ethnologist
Majors – Social anthropology of world regions, human ethology
Full-time education
Core disciplines: Ethno-cultural composition of the world, human evolution, human ethology, history, psychology, culture and personality, anthropology of law, economic anthropology, anthropology of folklore, political anthropology, visual anthropology, anthropology of religion, applied anthropology, foreign languages
Anthropology and Ethnology studies man and society in diverse cultural environments. It explores both fundamental problems of social systems development and functioning as well as problem-solving methods for various applied subjects.
All the teachers of the Institute are qualified specialists, many of them Ph.D’s. Also, a great number of experts from the RAS institutes are routinely delivering lectures and teaching practical courses. Guest specialists from abroad also give lecture to Institute students.
During the course of their education students have four internships: in research institutes and museums of Moscow and St.-Petersburg as well as in the field.
Students of the Istitute take active part in scientific congresses. Workshops both in Russia and abroad are organized for them.
After graduation the students have an opportunity to pursue their studies as graduate students both in Russian and foreign institutes and universities.
Address:
Miusskaya Sq. 6, korpus 2, room 516
Moscow, 125047
email: uncsa@rggu.ru
Telephone: +7 (495) 250 6102; +7 (499) 973 4094
Fax:+7 (499) 973 4094
ABOUT ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY
Anthropologists and ethnologists explore the diversity of social and cultural life of men. The range of their interests is very wide. It can be, for example, beliefs and their relationship to science of Buddhist monks, traditional law among the Fiji islanders, female folklore in African villagers, ritual grieving in Western China, violence stereotypes in Northern Ireland, ritual transvestism in Nigeria, view of power and wealth among Russians, Islam and progressive economy in Brunei and so on.
Fieldwork, that is, the study of social life and culture of particular community under the participant observation method is the basis of social anthropology. Field materials are summarized, generalized and ethnographic profiles of particular cultures are worked out. These profiles then become subjects of comparative studies which, in their turn, give birth to anthropological theories and conceptions. Comparative study of general and particular aspects of human life help find universal laws of social life. Applications of anthropological theory assist in solving complicated problems of human behavior and interactions.
The work of an anthropologist is fascinating and intellectual. It helps develop broad approach strategies from cross-cultural and multi-cultural perspectives. Anthropology and ethnology involve political and philosophical thinking. It is social anthropology that in the last 20 years has challenged the well-established tradition of historical research and ushered in the era of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research in human science.
Specialization in anthropology and ethnology provides a variety of occupational opportunities addressing both personal priorities and the demands of the present day.
CORE SUBJECTS
Biological anthropology
Human evolution
Human ethology
Ethno-cultural composition of the world
Evolution of society
Archaeology (Introductory course)
World pre-history
Universal history
Anthropological theory
Social anthropology of world regions
History of social anthropology
Methodology and methods of anthropological fieldwork
Culture and language
Society and Self
Culture and personality (psychological anthropology)
Gifts and goods: economic anthropology
Anthropology of law
Political anthropology
Ethnic psychology
Anthropology of religion
Anthropological museums and exhibitions
Applied anthropology
ELECTIVES
Anthropology of folklore
Anthropology of gender
Childhood and culture
Visual anthropology
Myth, symbol, and ritual
Anthropology of humor
Money and its alienated existence
Sociocultural space and time
Culture and morals
Medical anthropology
SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF MODERN RUSSIAN TOWN: RESEARCH PROJECT
In 2008-2010 a research group of teachers and students of the Center together with some specialists and graduate students of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology took part in the research project “Social Anthropology of Modern Russian Town” that targeted life of citizens of small towns. All the participants of the project did fieldwork in one of the sel ected towns.
The regions the study included were located in the central part of Russia, Krasnodar region in the South, Kaliningrad region in the West, and Altai in the East. The members of the project covered the towns that differ in natural environment, predominant occupation of citizens and age/sex composition of the population.
Project members worked in small groups (2-4 persons) and did their research with such methods as participant observation, interviews, archive studies, photo/video recording and mass-media analysis. Several conferences and workshops were held as the project progressed.
As a result several research reports reflecting the main conclusion were made, the materials of the expeditions were summarized and published in several articles, monographs and the collective two-volume monograph “Social Anthropology of Russian Town”.
TEACHERS
The teachers of our Institute are qualified specialists, lecturers, Assistant and Associate Professors. Invited experts from Russia and other countries are also involved.
Valery Tishkov, Director. Full Professor, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, supervisor of the RAS Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology. Prof. Tishkov studies social anthropology of USA and Canada, ethnic processes in modern society, ethnic conflictology, anthropology of power and violence, problems of intercultural contacts in post-Soviet Russia and the CIS countries.
e-mail: tishkov@iea.ras.ru
Olga Artemova, Deputy Director. Full Professor, senior researcher at the RAS Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology.
Dr. Artemova studies social anthropology of Australia and Oceania, social organization, religion and art of stateless societies.
e-mail: artemova.olga@list.ru
Sergey Alymov, Assistant professor, senior research associate at the RAS Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology.
Dr. Alymov studies history of anthropology, intellect history, Russian peoples anthropology, anthropological theory, soviet scholar history, Marxism. Field research regions include several areas of Russian Federation. Chief editor of the Anthropologies journal, editorial board member in the Ethnographic Review journal.
Julia Artemova, Assistant Professor.
Dr. Artemova studies anthropology of humor, humor aspects of folklore, methodology of special translation, culture and personality, anthropology of religion, medical psychology.
e-mail: redfox712002@yandex.ru
Dmitry Bondarenko, Full Professor, Correspondent Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Deputy Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies (RAS).
Dr. Bondarenko studies theory of socio-cultural evolution, political anthropology, stateless societies; ethnic, racial and religious aspects of intercultural contacts, Sub-Saharan Africa peoples.
e-mail: dbondar@hotmail.com
Marina Butovskaya, Full Professor, Chief Scientific Officer associate at the RAS Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology. Chief of Cross-Cultural Psychology and Human Ethology Center.
Marina Butovskaya studies evolutionary anthropology, cross-cultural psychology, African studies, prehistory, human and primate social behavior, altruism and cooperation evolution, aggression and conflict solving interactions. Biology and culture manifestations in human behavior, sexual partner choosing strategies.
Maria Vasekha, Assistant professor, by-worker in Gender studies center of the RAS Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, senior research associate.
Maria Vasekha’s professional interests are: gender studies, urban studies, health studies, medical anthropology, identity issues, migrations, anthropology of the Siberia. Regional interests include Russia, West Siberia.
Yelisaveta Veselovskaya, Full Professor, Chief Scientific Officer associate at the RAS Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology Biological Anthropology Center, chief of the Anthropological Reconstruction Lab.
Dr. Veselovskaya studies biological and evolutionary anthropology, anthropological reconstruction
e-mail: e.veselovskaya@rambler.ru
Elena Gorokhovskaya, Associate professor, doctor of biology.
Elena Gorokhovskaya studies history of biology, human and animal ethology.
Dmitry Dolgikh, Senior lecturer.
Dmitry Dolgikh studies: rural anthropology, Russian peoples anthropology, native Americans anthropology, anthropological theory.
Mikhail Drambyan, Senior lecturer.
Mr. Drambyan studies anthropology of war and peace, carries out comparative research of Caucasian and Balkan peoples
e-mail: drambyan@yandex.ru
Andrey Zagorulko, Assistant Professor.
Dr. Zagorulko studies social anthropology and economy of Korea, archaeological anthropology, anthropological geography.
e-mail: azagor@mail.ru
Alexey Zakurdayev, Assistant professor.
Alexey Zakurdayev studies social anthropology of Chinese peoples, cultural manifestations of ethnic identity, ethnocultural problems solving, ethnocultural transformations in China today and in the past, Chinese peoples cultures.
Mikhail Kabitsky, Assistant professor.
Dr. Kabitsky studies ethnology of Southern Europe (Portugal, Spain, Italy), ethnolinguistic minorities, early ethnic history and ethnogenesis of European peoples.
e-mail: kabitski@yahoo.es
Vladimir Klyaus, Full Professor.
Dr. Klyaus studies traditional culture of Russian Old Believers, ritual folklore of Slavic and Siberian peoples, visual anthropology, computerization of ethnological and philological research, carries out anthropological source study.
e-mail: v.klyaus@mail.ru
Marina Klyaus, Assistan professor, senior research associate at the RAS Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology.
Marina Klyaus studies historical and ethnical demography, cliometrics, microhistory, oral history, The Bulgarians anthropology and ethnic history.
Andrey Matusovsky, Associate professor, doctor of philosophy.
Andrey Matusovsky studies sociocultural processes, ethnography and anthropology of Amazonian and Orinokian native peoples including their mythology, mundane and ritual culture.
Andrey Maurer, Assistant Professor.
Dr. Maurer studies biological anthropology, human ecology
e-mail: foto-rer@yandex.ru
Maxim Mikhalyov, Full professor, doctor of history.
Maxim Mikhalyov studies political anthropology: border, frontier and buffer areas; Inner Asian peoples (South Siberia, Tibet, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Central Asia etc.); Russian-Chinese trans-boundary; economical anthropology: humanitarian aspects of Eurasian integrational processes, anthropology of infrastructures; traditional knowledge preservers in modernization setting.
Alexander Prigarin, Associate professor, doctor of history, leading researcher.
Alexander Prigarin studies history, cultural and household expressiveness of the old believers, glokalization in actual practices of cross-cultural interactions; ethno-cultural communities of North Black Sea and Priazovye regions in comparative perspective.
Maria Tendryakova, Assistant Professor.
Dr. Tendryakova studies culture and personality, transmission of tradition through generations in illiteral cultures, anthropology of childhood and puberty.
e-mail: mashatendryak@gmail.com
Daria Trynkina, senior researcher at the RAS Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology. English versions editor in the Folklore and Urban Anthropology journal.
Daria Trynkina studies Japan and Britain islands ethnography, anthropology of religions, history of anthropology.
Andrey Tutorsky, Associate professor at Anthropology and Ethnology Intitute and at Moscow State University, History Department, Ethnology Faculty.
Andrey Tutorsky’s professional interests include: peasant studies, cultural adaptation to environmental setting, normative social practices (customary law, ethno-etiquette).
Elena Fyodorova, Associate professor, doctor of psychology.
Elena Fyodorova studies historical-psychological anthropology: research methodology; cultural and historical psychology reflected in its creators and followers works; cross-cultural aspects of human life subjective representation (systematic approach); issues of human creativity and innovative activity development in diverse cultural and educational milieus.
Olga Khristoforova, Full Professor.
Dr. Khristoforova studies folklore, social and cultural anthropology, visual anthropology, medical anthropology.
E-mail: okhrist@yandex.ru
OUR STAFF
Elizaveta Zverkova - specialist of educational and methodical work
Dmitriy Dolgikh - specialist of educational and methodical work
SITES
RAS Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology
"Social Anthropology"
Russian Museum of Ethnography
