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190068 Saint Petersburg
123 Griboedov channel, Room 123

Phone:+7 (812)786-92-49 

Postal address: 
190068 Saint Petersburg
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Administration
Adrian A. Selin
Department Head – Adrian A. Selin
Evgeniy Anisimov
Academic Supervisor – Evgeniy Anisimov
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
Social History of the True Orthodox Christians Wandering in Russia. Capitalism, Communism, and Apocalypse, 1900-1930

Kuziner I.

L.; NY: Routledge, 2025.

Article
Forum 21: Humans and Other Species

Blanchette A., Bogdanova E., Fedotova A. et al.

Forum for Anthropology and Culture. 2025. No. 21. P. 11-128.

Book chapter
Albert Hlebec: On the Slovenian National Question

Gužvica S.

In bk.: Political Transformations in the Interwar Period: The Case of Slovenian Political Thought. Ljubljana: Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino, 2026. P. 127-135.

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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Mentor Seminar “Social Anthropology"

2024/2025
Academic Year
ENG
Instruction in English
3
ECTS credits
Category 'Best Course for Career Development'
Category 'Best Course for Broadening Horizons and Diversity of Knowledge and Skills'
Category 'Best Course for New Knowledge and Skills'
Delivered by:
Department of History
Type:
Compulsory course
When:
2 year, 1-3 module

Instructor

Ssorin-Chaikov, Nikolai

Ssorin-Chaikov, Nikolai

Course Syllabus

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Abstract

This seminar provides academic guidance to those students who opt for major in social anthropology within the MA in Global and Regional History and those students who major in history but who would like to incorporate courses in social anthropology into their curriculum.
Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

  • to gain necessary background in anthropology
  • to understand history of the discipline, and its main contemporary theories
  • to learn how to develop anthropological MA research project
Expected Learning Outcomes

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • A student knows the history of the discipline and subfields
  • interpret the specificity of research methods of social anthropology
  • interprets goals and scope of the discipline
  • A student interprets the state of the art in contemporary anthropology
Course Contents

Course Contents

  • introduction to social anthropology
  • history of anthropology
  • anthropological methods
  • schools of thought in anthropology
Assessment Elements

Assessment Elements

  • non-blocking эссе
    эссе
  • non-blocking домашнее задание
    домашнее задание
Interim Assessment

Interim Assessment

  • 2023/2024 4th module
    0.5 * домашнее задание + 0.5 * эссе
  • 2024/2025 3rd module
    0.5 * домашнее задание + 0.5 * 2023/2024 4th module
Bibliography

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

  • Hannerz, U. (2010). Anthropology’s World : Life in a Twenty-First Century Discipline. Web server without geographic relation, Web server without geographic relation (org): Pluto Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.7AC7B27E
  • 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
  • Kuper, A. (2014). Anthropology and Anthropologists : The British School in the Twentieth Century (Vol. Fourth edition). Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=850102
  • Sherry B. Ortner. (2008). Anthropology and Social Theory : Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject. Duke University Press Books.

Recommended Additional Bibliography

  • Radcliffe-Brown, A. R., & Kuper, A. (2004). The Social Anthropology of Radcliffe-Brown. London: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=661115

Authors

  • Султанова Алия Илдаровна
  • Ssorin-Chaikov Nikolai Vladimirovich