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190068 Saint Petersburg
123 Griboedov channel, Room 123

Phone:+7 (812)786-92-49

Postal address:
190068 Saint Petersburg
123 Griboedov channel

Administration

Department Head – Adrian A. Selin

Academic Supervisor – Evgeniy Anisimov

Public lectures by the faculty of the department of history

Public lectures

Research

About the Department

The Department of History was created in 2012. The overarching goal of the department is systematic development of the field of global, comparative, and transnational history as a potent tool of overcoming the limitations of national history canon, fostering interdisciplinary dialogue in the field of social sciences and humanities, and brining new public relevance to historical knowledge. The department mission includes the development of new type of historical undergraduate and graduate education in Russia and pioneering new research fields in Russian historiography in dialogue with the global historical profession.

Publications

Book

Shared Images: A History of American Art in the Soviet Union during the Cold War

Chunikhin K.

De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025.

Article

Передвижники (Peredvizhniki; The Wanderers) The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow October 30, 2024–April 6, 2025
In press

Chukcheeva M.

Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide. 2025.

Book chapter

The Women Who Count: Gendering Calculations in the Soviet Atomic Project

Orlova G., Kasatkina A.

In bk.: Women, Gender, and Technosciences, 1900–2020. A Beard to Govern. Routledge, 2025. Ch. 7. P. 123-140.

Working paper

The Image of the Past in Ciro Spontone’s ‘Historia Della Transilvania’

Khvalkov E., Levin F., Кузнецова А. Д.

Working Papers of Humanities. WP. Издательский дом НИУ ВШЭ, 2021

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Delivered by:: Department of History

Type:: Minor

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Instructors

Рахманова Лидия Яковлевна

Ryzhkov, Aleksei

Ssorin-Chaikov, Nikolai

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Abstract

Social anthropology explores social and cultural diversity of contemporary world drawing on a distinct research method of ethnography — an in-depth participant observation of human communities and institutions. This English language-taught minor offers a project-oriented introduction to contemporary theories and methods of social anthropology. It does so by looking at anthropology’s foundational problematic of kinship and gender — the topics formed the core of anthropology since its inception and constitute vibrant fields of study today. The aim of the course is thus both to convey one of the state-of-the-art areas of anthropological research while also serving as a window into the history of anthropology.

Learning Objectives

be able not only read key ethnographies, but also make an individual research, based on the unique ethnographic experience, applying the skills learnt through the course.

Expected Learning Outcomes

Able to learn and demonstrate skills in the field, other than the major field

Course Contents

What is anthropology?
Main schools of anthropology in early 20th century.
Gender and kinship: not nature
Kinship

Assessment Elements

Project essay
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Final essay exam

Interim Assessment

2025/2026 2nd module
0.5 * Final essay exam + 0.5 * Project essay

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

Croce, N. (2016). Anthropology. New York: Britannica Educational Publishing. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1151423
Ingold, T. (2018). Anthropology : Why It Matters. Medford: Polity. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1801558

Authors

Ssorin-Chaikov Nikolai Vladimirovich
Nevskii Andrei VLADIMIROVICH

Anthropology of Kinship and Gender