Bondarenko
Dmitri M.
Dr. of History, Associate member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, RAS Professor
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Scientific Interests
Historical and anthropological theory of socio-cultural transformations; socio-cultural and political anthropology; pre-industrial societies; modern problems of cultural development and interaction (national, ethno-racial, religious aspects); cultures and history of African peoples; African diasporas.
Education
2000: D.Sc. (General History and Anthropology) from the Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
1993: Ph.D. (General History and Anthropology) from the Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
1990: M.A. cum laude (General History, Anthropology, Education, and English) from the Chair of Ethnology, School of History, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, USSR.
Academic Experience
Date: December 2024 to present. Employer: Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. Positions: Vice-Director for Research, Chair of the Department of Anthropology of the East, Principal Research Fellow.
Date: February 2018 to present. Employer: International Center of Anthropology of the HSE University (National Research University “Higher School of Economics”), Moscow, Russia. Position: Director.
Date: June – December 2014. Employer: Center of Fundamental Studies of the National Research University “Higher School of Economics”, Moscow, Russia. Position: Principal Research Fellow.
Date: July – August 2006. Host: Max Planck Institute of History, Goettingen, Germany. Position: Visiting Scholar.
Date: November 2005 – December 2012. Employer: Institute for Innovative Education Strategies, Department of Political Anthropology and Ethnocultural Education, Moscow, Russia. Position: Leading Research Fellow.
Date: May – June 2005. Host: Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, France. Position: Visiting Scholar.
Date: July 2003. Host: Max Planck Institute of History, Goettingen, Germany. Position: Visiting Scholar.
Date: December 1993 to May 1994. Host: Program of African Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA. Position: Visiting Scholar.
Date: August 1990 – December 2024. Employer: Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. Positions: Principal Research Fellow (October 2024 – December 2024), Vice-Director for Research (April 2008 – September 2024), Chair of the Center of History and Cultural Anthropology (February – March 2008), Chair of the Department of Cultural Anthropology (January 1999 – January 2008), Senior Research Fellow (January 1996 – January 1999), Research Fellow (September 1992 - January 1996), Junior Research Fellow (August 1990 - September 1992).
Teaching
Date: January 2019 – June 2024. Employer: School of History and School of Philosophy and Culture Studies of the Faculty for the Humanities of the HSE University (National Research University “Higher School of Economics”), Moscow, Russia. Courses: Political Anthropology, History of Anthropological Thought
Date: February – June 2011, February 2012 – April 2012, November – December 2014. Employer: Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. Courses (for graduate students and junior researchers): “Tradition” and “Contemporaneity” in Sub-Saharan African Cultures, Political Anthropology, Introduction to African Studies.
Date: November – December 2004. Employer: Higher Institute of Educational Sciences of Angola of the University Agostinho Neto, Luanda – Sumbe. Course: Historical Anthropology of Africa South of the Sahara.
Date: from September 1998 to present. Employer: Institute of Anthropology and Ethnology of the Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia. Courses: Introduction to Social (Cultural) Anthropology, History of Social (Cultural) Anthropology, Theoretical Social (Cultural) Anthropology, Political Anthropology, History and Anthropology of Africa, Pre-colonial African Cultures, Colonial African Cultures, Post-colonial African Cultures.
Date: September 1996 - June 1998, September 2001 – January 2002; April 2014 – June 2015. Employer: School of History, Political Science and Law of Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia. Courses: Political Anthropology, Anthropology of Archaic Societies, Early Forms of Political Organization, Man/Woman - Society - Authority in History, Evolution of Social Institutions.
Date: February 1990 - December 1992. Employer: Institute of Asian and African Studies of Lomonosov Moscow University, Moscow, USSR/Russia. Courses: History of Africa, Ethnography of Africa, History of Civilizations Theories.
Main publications
(of about 600; those in English are bolded):
I. Monographs:
1. Post-colonial Nations in Historical and Cultural Context. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2023. 354 P. (The same in Russian: Post-colonial Nations in Historical and Cultural Context. Moscow: LRC Publishing House, 2022. 400 P.).
2. African Americans and American Africans: Migration, Histories, Race and Identities. Canon Pyon: Sean Kingston Publishing, 2019. 160 P. (Earlier version in Russian: The Shades of Black: Cultural-Anthropological Aspects of Mutual Perceptions and Relations between African Americans and African Migrants in the U.S.A. Moscow: LRC, 2016. 216 P.).
3. The Axial Ages of World History: Lessons for the 21st Century. Litchfield Park, AZ: Emergent Publications, 2014. XIII, 137 P. (with K. Baskin).
4. Homoarchy: A Principle of Culture’s Organization. The 13th – 19th Centuries Benin Kingdom as a Non-State Supercomplex Society. Moscow: KomKniga, 2006. 184 P. (P. 39–41, 44–47, 47–54, 54–55 are reprinted as Documents 23, 28, 29, 30 on the CD attached to: Harding L. Das Königreich Benin. Geschichte – Kultur – Wirtschaft. München: Oldenbourg Wissenschaft Verlag, 2010).
5. A Popular History of Benin. The Rise and Fall of a Mighty Forest Kingdom. Frankfurt am Main etc.: Peter Lang, 2003. 391 P. (with P.M. Roese).
6. Pre-imperial Benin: Formation and Evolution of the Socio-political Institutions System. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 2001. 350 P.
7. The Theory of Civilizations and the Dynamics of Historical Process in Pre-colonial Tropical Africa. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 1997. 71 P.
8. Benin on the Eve of the First Contacts with Europeans: Personality. Society. Authority. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 1995. 339 P.
II. Journal Articles and Book Chapters:
1. On Pathways to the Complex Society: The Case of the Bini (West Africa). Etnografia. 2024, № 4 (26). P. 6-39.
2. Cultural Complexity in the Post-colonial Era and Prospects of Nation-building in the Global South and the Global North. In R. Ruffino (ed.). Abitare le diversità: Culture e complessità nuove. Colle di Val d’Elsa: Fondazione Intercultura, 2024. P. 331-372.
3. Principles and Forms of Organization of Societies as Systems of Institutions (The “Conceptual Frame” of This Book). In D.M. Bondarenko, G.V. Aleksandrov (eds.). Principles of Sociocultural Organization: Historical Contexts of Interaction. Moscow: LRC Publishing House, 2024. P. 7-47.
4. Conclusion. In D.M. Bondarenko, G.V. Aleksandrov (eds.). Principles of Sociocultural Organization: Historical Contexts of Interaction. Moscow: LRC Publishing House, 2024. P. 343-357 (with G.V. Aleksandrov).
5. Introduction. In D.M. Bondarenko (ed.). Black Heritage: Africans and Their Descendants in Historical Memory of the USA. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 2024. P. 7-11.
6. Memory of the Civil War, Emancipation, and Struggle against Racism in the USA in the Late 2010s – Early 2020s. In D.M. Bondarenko (ed.). Black Heritage: Africans and Their Descendants in Historical Memory of the USA. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 2024. P. 72-119.
7. Trying to Rally Citizens around Authorities: Neotraditionalism and Nation-building in Postcolonial Sub-Saharan Africa. Psihologia Socială. 2023, № 52. P. 39-54.
8. Historical Memory, Nation-building, and Neo-traditionalism in Post-colonial Sub-Saharan Africa // In V.A. Tishkov (ed.). Proceedings of the Department of History and Philology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. 2022. Vol. 12. Moscow: Russian Academy of Sciences, 2023. P. 286-301.
9. Not Only Former Colonies but the Whole Contemporary World Is Postcolonial. Etnograficheskoe obozrenie. 2023, № 3. P. 165-186 (with E.I. Filippova).
10. Dynamics of State Origins in Comparative Perspective. Zhōngguó shèhuì kēxué. 2023, № 6 (330). P. 145-165 (with N.N. Kradin, D.D. Beliaev).
11. Civil War Memory, Anti-racism, and the American Nation: Late 2010s – Early 2020s. Vestnik Moskovskogo universiteta. Ser. 8. Istoriya. 2023, № 1. P. 138-164.
12. Struggle against Racism and Memory of the Civil War and Emancipation in the USA in the Late 2010s – Early 2020s. In V.A. Shnirelman (ed.). Contemporary Racism: Ideology and Practice. Moscow: Dashkov i K, 2022. P. 273-309.
13. By Way of Conclusion. In D.M. Bondarenko, R.J. Chacon, R.N. Ignatiev (eds.). Up Close and From Afar: New World Anthropology from Russian and American Perspectives (Proceedings from the 1st and 2nd Russian-American Research Nexus Forums). Moscow: Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology Press, 2022. P. 247-252.
14. Cultural Anthropology in the USA. Representations of the Civil War and the Abolition of Slavery in the North and the South. Anthropos. 2022. Vol. 117, № 2. P. 411–422.
15. Nation-Building in Tanzania, Zambia, and Uganda: A Comparative Analysis. In T.M. Gavristova (ed.). Russia – Africa: From Oral History to Post-Colonial Narrative. Yaroslavl: Filigran, 2022. P. 21-26.
16. Nation-building in Tanzania: Originality of Conditions, Features of the Process and Result. In D.M. Bondarenko, T.S. Denisova, S.V. Kostelyanets (eds.). “Every Citizen is an Integral Part of the Nation”. To the Centenary of the Birth of Julius Kambarage Nyerere, the Founding Father of Independent Tanzania. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 2022. P. 71–84.
17. Nation-building in Post-colonial Sub-Saharan African States: Tanzania, Zambia, and Uganda Compared. Azija i Afrika segodnja. 2022. № 1. P. 15-23.
18. Historical and Cultural Aspects of the Formation of Nations in Postcolonial States of Africa. Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences. 2002. Vol. 92, № 1. P. 96-105 (The same in Russian: Vestnik Rossijskoj akademii nauk. 2022. Vol. 92, № 1. P. 86-96).
19. Development of African Studies in Russia: History and the Present Day. Kontury global’nykh transformatsij: politika, ekonomika, pravo. 2021. Vol. 14, № 6. P. 298-329 (with Irina O. Abramova, Marina N. Amvrosova, Sergey N. Volkov, Valentina V. Gribanova, Tatiana L. Deych, Evgeniya V. Morozenskaya).
20. Intellectuals and the Rest: Class Division and Life Strategies among Moscow Africans. In M.D. Gheorghiu, S. Corlan-Ioan, A. Kouvouama (eds.). Itinéraires des élites africaines dans le monde: Réseaux et transferts entre diasporas et “petites sociétés”. Iaşi: Editura Universităţii “Al. I. Cuza”, 2021. P. 121–130.
21. Evolution of Human Behavior and Society: Some Reflections on the Book by Marina L. Butovskaya and Victoria V. Rostovtseva. Etnograficheskoe obozrenie. 2021, № 6. P. 199-204.
22. History, Modernity, and Postcolonial Nation-Building. In A.V. Golovnyov and E.-B.M. Guchinova (eds.). Anthropology and Ethnology: A Modern View. Moscow: Politicheskaya entsiklopediya, 2021. P. 99-112.
23. Who’s State? Whose Nation? Representations of the History of the Arab Slave Trade and Nation-Building in Tanzania. In Arne S. Steinforth and Sabine Klocke-Daffa (eds.). Challenging Authorities: Ethnographies of Legitimacy and Power in Eastern and Southern Africa. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. P. 29-62 (with Anastasia A. Banshchikova and Oxana V. Ivanchenko).
24. Nation-Building in Post-Colonial States: Historical Past and Present-Day Realities. Journal of Globalization Studies. 2021. Vol. 12, № 1. P. 18-37.
25. Cancel Culture and Struggle against Racism: The Civil War and Emancipation in Cultural Memory in the USA. In I.V. Nam (ed.). XIV Congress of Anthropologists and Ethnologists of Russia: Proceedings. Tomsk, July 6–9, 2021. Moscow; Tomsk: Tomsk State University Press, 2021. P. 7-19.
26. Representations of Slavery and the Civil War of 1861–1865 in the US North and South: Discrepancy of Historical Discourses. Dialog so vremenem. 2021, № 75. P. 143-157.
27. Social Institutions and Basic Principles of the Organization of Societies. Sibirskie istoricheskie issledovanija. 2021, № 1. P. 138-164.
28. Conflicting Historical Discourses of the US North and South, and Memorial Representation of Slavery and the Civil War of 1861–1865. In Dmitri M. Bondarenko and Denis N. Maslyuzhenko (eds.). Role of Material Sources in Information Support of Historical Science: A Collection of Articles. Moscow: s.p., 2020. P. 478-488.
29. Introduction. In Dmitri M. Bondarenko, Stephen A. Kowalewski, and David B. Small (eds.). The Evolution of Social Institutions: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. P. 1-25.
30. Social Institutions and Basic Principles of Societal Organization. In Dmitri M. Bondarenko, Stephen A. Kowalewski, and David B. Small (eds.). The Evolution of Social Institutions: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. P. 51-78.
31. The Benin Kingdom (13th–19th Centuries): Megacommunity as Socio-Political System. In Dmitri M. Bondarenko, Stephen A. Kowalewski, and David B. Small (eds.). The Evolution of Social Institutions: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. P. 337-357.
32. Orthodox of Uganda: Sociocultural Processes in African Christian Communities. Vestnik RFFI. Gumanitarnye i obshchestvennye nauki. 2020, № 1. P. 124-134 (with Andrey V. Tutorskiy).
33. Conversion to Orthodox Christianity in Uganda: A Hundred Years of Spiritual Encounter with Modernity, 1919–2019. Religions. 2020. Vol. 11, № 5, 223 (with Andrey V. Tutorskiy; the same in: Jason Bruner, David Dmitri Hurlbut (eds.). Religious Conversion in Africa. Basel: MDPI, 2020. P. 57-74).
34. Is Modernity a Third Axial Age? NETSOL: New Trends in Social and Liberal Sciences. 2019. Vol. 4. № 2. P. 1-23 (with K. Baskin).
35. Introduction. In Dmitri M. Bondarenko, Marina L. Butovskaya (eds.). The Omnipresent Past. Historical Anthropology of Africa and African Diaspora. Moscow: LRC Publishing House, 2019. P. 5-19 (with M.L. Butovskaya).
36. Entangled in the Web of History: Collective Historical Memory and the Relations between African Americans and First-Generation African Immigrants in the USA. In Dmitri M. Bondarenko, Marina L. Butovskaya (eds.). The Omnipresent Past. Historical Anthropology of Africa and African Diaspora. Moscow: LRC Publishing House, 2019. P. 303-338.
37. Plural Trajectories: Introduction to African Futures. Journal of the Institute for African Studies. 2019, № 2 (47). P. 5-14 (with D. O’Kane).
38. In Search of the True Faith: the Appearance of Orthodox Old Believers in Uganda and Spiritual Anti-globalism in Contemporary Africa. Exchange. Journal of Contemporary Christianities in Context. 2019. Vol. 48, № 2. P. 127-155.
39. The Image of the USSR in African Countries: A View from the 2000s (By the Evidence of the Research of 2006–2009). In A.B. Davidson (ed.). Africa in the Fortune of Russia. Russia in the Fortune of Africa. Moscow: Politicheskaja entsiklopedija, 2019. P. 557-572.
40. Migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa in Moscow: Social Differences and Life Strategies. Vostok / Oriens. 2018, № 6. P. 162-171.
41. To See the Ocean in a Drop: Ugandan Old Believers as a Reflection of Cultural Processes in Contemporary Africa. In O.I. Kavykin (ed.). The Anthropology of Africa: New Research Subjects. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 2018. P. 12-34.
42. Metamorphoses of the African American Identity in Post-segregation Era and the Theory of Afrocentrism. Kontury global’nykh transformatsij: politika, ekonomika, pravo. 2018. Vol. 11, № 2. P. 30-45 (with Nadezhda E. Khokholkova).
43. State Building, States, and State Transformation in Africa: Introduction. Social Evolution and History. 2018. Vol. 17, № 1 (Special Issue State Building, States, and State Transformation in Africa). P. 3-15 (with C.I. Njoku).
44. The Role of Complexity Studies in the Emerging “Processual” Worldview. Emergence: Complexity and Organization. 2018. Vol. 20, № 1. P. 1-12 (with K. Baskin).
45. From Russia with Faith: The Appearance of Orthodox Old Believers in Uganda as a Manifestation of Cultural Processes in Contemporary Africa. Sibirskie istoricheskie issledovanija. 2018, № 1. P. 167-199.
46. Nation in the Time of Intensive Globalization. Vestnik of the Moscow State Linguistic University. Obshchestvennye nauki. 2017, № 3. С. 115-124.
47. “We are not Slaves, Slaves are not We”? Historical Memory of the Slave Trade and Colonialism as a Factor of Interaction between African Americans and the Present-Day Migrants from Africa in the USA. In T.V. Evgenyeva (ed.). Ethnic Identity in Contemporary Africa. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 2017. P. 55-96.
48. Expedition to the Republic of Uganda. Traditsionnaja kul’tura. 2017. № 3. P. 179-191 (with Alina O. Lapushkina).
49. African Migrants in Post-Soviet Moscow: Adaptation and Integration in a Time of Radical Socio-Political Transformations. Ìrìnkèrindò: a Journal of African Migration. 2017. Iss. 9. P. 35-75. http://africamigration.com/issue/dec2017/Full_Issue_9.pdf.
50. Big History, Complexity Theory, and Life in a Non-Linear World. In Barry Rodrigue, Leonid Grinin, Andrey Korotayev (eds.). From Big Bang to Galactic Civilizations: A Big History Anthology. Vol. III. The Ways that Big History Works: Cosmos, Life, Society and our Future. Delhi: Primus Books, 2017. P. 183-196 (with K. Baskin).
51. Kinship and the State: Theoretical Considerations in the Transition to a Postmodern World. In Ananta Kumar Giri (ed.). Cultivating Pathways of Creative Research: New Horizons of Transformative Practice and Collaborative Imagination. Delhi: Primus Books, 2017. P. 161-181.
52. African Americans and African Migrants: Divergence of Mentalities. Konfliktologija. 2017. № 1. P. 57-70.
53. The Past Never Dies: Historical Memory of the Slave Trade and Relationship between African Americans and Contemporary Migrants from Africa to the US. In Tanya Lyons (ed.). Conference Proceedings. “Africa: Moving the Boundaries”. 39th Annual African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific (AFSAAP) Conference, 5-7 December 2016, The University of Western Australia. AFSAAP, 2017. P. 28-43. http://afsaap.org.au/assets/5-Dmitri-M.-Bondarenko.pdf.
54. Black Americans and Contemporary Migrants from Africa to the USA: Some Results of Field Research of the Relationship. In V.A. Tishkov (ed.). Proceedings of the Department of History and Philology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. 2016. Moscow: Nauka, 2017. P. 381-406.
55. Pre-slave Trade and Pre-colonial Africa in the Historical Consciousness of African-Americans and African Migrants in the USA. Africa Review. 2017. Vol. 9, № 1. P. 82-97.
56. Global Governance and Diasporas: the Case of African Migrants in the USA. In R.V. Dmitriev (ed). African Studies in Russia. Works of the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Yearbook 2014–2016. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 2017. P. 32-49 (the same in Russian: In Mirovaja ekonomika i mezhdunarodnye otnoshenija. 2015, № 4. P. 37-48; In E.N. Korendyasov (ed.). African Migration in the Context of Contemporary International Relations. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 2015. P. 28-47).
57. The Postcolonial World: Historical Singularity and Nation-Building in the Context of Globalization. In S.G. Kalashnikov (ed.). Actual Problems of History: A Collection of Articles of the Round Table, Kolomna, November 25–26, 2016. Kolomna: State University for Social Sciences and the Humanities Press, 2016. P. 60-68.
58. Historical Memory and Cultural Identity: Africa before the Slave Trade and Colonialism in the Minds of African Americans and Recent African Migrants to the USA. In E.V. Miskova, A.V. Tutorski (eds.). “Inventing Tradition” and Creating “Imagined Community”. Ad Memoriam Alexey A. Nikishenkov. Moscow: Novyj khronograf, 2016. P. 129-138.
59. The Postcolonial World: Nation-Building and the Historical Past. In V.A. Tishkov, E.I. Filippova (eds.). Cultural Complexity of Modern Nations. Moscow: Politicheskaja entsiklopedija, 2016. P. 224-240.
60. Pre-Slave Trade and Precolonial Africa in Historical Memory and Mass Consciousness of African Americans and Recent African Migrants to the USA. Istoricheskie issledovanija. Zhurnal istoricheskogo fakul’teta MGU imeni M.V. Lomonosova. 2016. № 4. P. 139-166 (http://www.historystudies.msu.ru/ojs2/index.php/ISIS/article/view/68/159).
61. “Ahead to the Past”: Memory of the Slave Trade and Relationship between African Americans and African Migrants in the United States. Novoe proshloe / The New Past. 2016. № 1. P. 38-61.
62. Toward a Philosophy of African History: Communality as a Foundation of Africa’s Socio-Cultural Tradition. In Adam Bedřich, Tomáš Retka (eds.). Knight from Komárov – To Petr Skalník for His 70th Birthday. Praha: AntropoWeb, 2015. P. 61-80.
63. State: The Nature of the Phenomenon. Kratkie soobshchenija Instiuta arkheologii. 2015. № 238. P. 13-25.
64. Has the Past Passed? On the Role of Historic Memory in Shaping the Relations between African Americans and Contemporary African Migrants in the USA. Suomen antropologi. 2015. Vol. 40, № 3. P. 5-30.
65. Slavery vs. Colonialism? On the Role of Historic Memory in Shaping the Relations between African Americans and Contemporary African Migrants in the USA. Studi emigrazione. 2015. Vol. 52, № 3 (199). P. 451-472.
66. The Benin Kingdom (13th –19th Centuries): A Non-state Supercomplex Society. In W. Xie (ed.). International Symposium on the Theories and Methods for the Studies of the Origin of States. November 14th-15th 2015, Shanghai, China. Conference Proceedings. Shanghai: Shanghai University, 2015. P. 134-163.
67. The Benin Kingdom (13th –19th Centuries) as a Megacommunity. Social Evolution and History. 2015. Vol. 14, № 2. P. 46-76.
68. “Ghosts of the Past”: Historic Memory as a Factor of Mutual Perception of African Americans and Contemporary African Migrants in the USA. Antropologicheskij forum. 2015. № 26. P. 87-126.
69. Struggle for Common Cause? Memory of the Recent Events and Mutual Perception of African Americans and Contemporary African migrants in the USA. Azija i Afrika segodnja. 2015. № 7. P. 34-41.
70. Decision-making in a Self-developing System (On the Example of Cultures of Sub-Saharan Africa). In Proceedings of the 16th Congress of the World Oranisation for Systems and Cybernetics “Our Self-organising World: From Disruption to Reparation”. Ibagué: University of Ibague, 2014. P. 862-872 (with Andrey G. Teslinov).
71. Ethnic Cultures, National Cultures, and Transnational Culture in the Time of Intensive Globalization. Vestnik antropologii. 2014, № 2. P. 15-19.
72. State as a Phenomenon of Social History: Nature and Distinctive Features. Istoricheskaja psikhologija i sotsiologija istorii. 2014, № 2. P. 164-188.
73. On the Nature and Features of the (Early) State: An Anthropological Reanalysis. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie. 2014. Vol. 139, № 2. P. 215-232.
74. Historical Memory and Intercultural Tolerance: Students’ Attitudes to the Colonialism-Born Minorities in Tanzania and Zambia. Social Evolution and History. 2014. Vol. 13, № 2 (Special Issue Anthropology, History, and Memory in Sub-Saharan Africa. In Memoriam Michel Izard). P. 97-118.
75. Anthropology, History, and Memory in Sub-Saharan Africa. In Memoriam Michel Izard. Introduction. Social Evolution and History. 2014. Vol. 13, № 2 (Special Issue Anthropology, History, and Memory in Sub-Saharan Africa. In Memoriam Michel Izard). P. 5-16 (with T. Grätz, P. Skalník).
76. The Culture of Self-Reliance and Foreign Aid to Least Developed Countries: The Case of Mosquito Bed Nets Distribution in Tanzania. Journal of Globalization Studies. 2014. Vol. 5, № 2. P. 91-104 (with J. Nkyabonaki and B.M. Mkunde).
77. African Entrepreneurs in Moscow: How They Did It Their Way. Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development. 2014. 43: 1–3. P. 205-254 (with E.B. Demintseva, V.V. Usacheva, D.A. Zelenova).
78. The Early Medieval Society in the Light of Social Anthropology. Srednie veka. 2014. Vol. 75, № 1/2. P. 481-491.
79. Communality: A Foundation of Sub-Saharan African Historical, Cultural, and Socio-political Tradition. Vostok / Oriens. 2014, № 2. P. 10-22.
80. “Universal” Concept of Human Rights and “African Specifics”. In A.M. Vasiliev (ed.). African Studies in Russia. Works of the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Yearbook 2010–2013. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 2014. P. 75-80 (the same in Russian, In A.L. Ryabinin (ed.). Cultural Aspects and Legal Practice in the Sphere of Human Rights in Africa. Moscow: Higher School of Economics Publishing House, 2012. P. 26-32).
81. J.K. Nyerere’s Principle of Self-reliance and Attitude to Foreign Aid in Tanzania of the Early 2010s. In D.M. Bondarenko and E.B. Demintseva (eds.). Africa: Processes of Socio-cultural Transformation. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 2014. P. 7-32 (with J. Nkyabonaki and B.M. Mkunde).
82. MBA in the Depth of Western African Cultures. Expedition of Managers and Scholars to Benin, Togo, and Ghana. Azija i Afrika segodnja. 2014, № 1. P. 53-59 (with A.G. Teslinov).
83. Foreign Aid and Self-Reliance in Post-Socialist Tanzania (The Case of the Distribution of Mosquito Bed Nets). Modern Africa: Politics, History and Society. 2013. Vol. 1, № 1. P. 67-103 (with J. Nkyabonaki and B.M. Mkunde).
84. The Formation of BRICS’ Image in Sub-Saharan African Countries (The Evidence from Tanzania). In T.L. Deych, E.N. Korendyasov (eds.). BRICS and Africa: Partnership and Interaction. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 2013. P. 288-302 (with J. Nkyabonaki).
85. Africa South of the Sahara in the Second Half of the 15th – 17th Century. In V.A. Vedyushkin, M.A. Yusim (eds.). World History. Vol. 3. World in the Early Modern Time. Moscow: Nauka, 2013. P. 415-437 (2nd ed. – 2019. P. 426-447).
86. What the (Early) State Is. In J. Yi (ed.). Academic Conference on Political Systems of Early States. Collection of Papers. Xi’an: Shaanxi Normal University, 2013. P. 39-72 (the same in Chinese: Ibid. P. 73-104; In L. Yuan, L.E. Grinin, A.V. Korotayev, J. Yi (eds.). Political Systems of Early States. Beijing: Science Press, 2014. P. 1-20).
87. A View from Campus. The Attitude of University Students to the European and South Asian Minorities in Tanzania and Zambia Compared. Anthropos. 2013. Vol. 108, № 1. P. 77-95 (with K. Krishna and R. Krishna).
88. The Kin and Territorial Principles of Societal Organization and the Phenomenon of State. In V.A. Popov (ed.). Early Forms of Political Systems. St. Petersburg: Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography Press, 2012. P. 99-134.
89. Demographic Growth and International Labor Migration. In A. Dynkin, N. Ivanova (eds.). Russia in a Polycentric World. Moscow: Ves mir, 2012. P. 525-532 (with I.O. Abramova, A.M. Vasiliev; the same in Russian, in: A.A. Dynkina, N.I. Ivanova (eds.). Russia in a Polycentric World. Moscow: Ves mir, 2011. P. 525-532).
90. Black Africa on the Eve of the Europeans’ Arrival. In P.Yu. Uvarov (ed.). World History. Vol. 2. Mediaeval Civilizations of the West and the East. Moscow: Nauka, 2012. P. 770-783 (2nd ed. – 2019. P. 837-850).
91. The State and Ideology of Kinship. In N.N. Kradin (ed.). Political Anthropology of Traditional and Contemporary Societies. Vladivostok: Far Eastern Federal University Publishing House, 2012. P. 30-41.
92. African “Demographic Bomb” as a Factor of Asymmetric Influence of the Continent on the World’s Polycentric System. In I.S. Ivanov (ed.). Russia in the Global World 2000 – 2011. Reader in 6 Volumes. Vol. 4. Moscow: Aspekt Press, 2012. P. 1338-1355 (with I.O. Abramova).
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197. The State Society Formation and Post-Soviet Ethnology: The First Challenge to Eternal Problem. Vostok / Oriens. 1993, No 5. P. 185-197.
198. Tropical Africa: Historical-and-Cultural Roots of Pre-industrialism. In Yu.M. Il’in et al. (eds.). African Cultures in Universal Civilizational Process. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 1993. P. 17-28.
199. Benin in the Europeans’ Perception. Vostok / Oriens. 1992, No 4. P. 53-62.
200. Formation of Classes and State and Some Specific Features of Their Functioning in Pre-capitalist Societies. In I.V. Sledzevski (ed.). Concepts of Social Progress. The Africanists’ Point of View. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 1991. P. 141-165.
201. Productive and Social Organization of Yoruba and Edo (Bini) Cities in the “Pre-European” Period (14th - 15th centuries). Sovetskaja Etnografija. 1991, No 4. P. 109-115.
202. The Problem of Volume of Power of the Benin Supreme Ruler by Sources and in Historiography (In Connection with the Socium’s Character). In Yu.M. Il’in et al. (eds.). The Tribe and the State in Africa. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 1991. P. 132-149.
203. Some Aspects of Benin Sociocultural Characteristics on the Eve of the European Penetration. In A.L. Smyshlyaev (ed.). History of World Culture: Traditions, Innovations, Contacts. Moscow: Lomonosov Moscow University Press, 1990. P. 35-48.
III. Edited Volumes:
1. Principles of Sociocultural Organization: Historical Contexts of Interaction. Moscow: LRC Publishing House, 2024. 372 P. (in co-operation).
2. Black Heritage: Africans and Their Descendants in Historical Memory of the USA. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 2024. 256 P.
3. International Russia-Tanzania Conference “The Place of Africa in the World: The Past and the Present”. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1 – 3 March 2024. Book of Abstracts. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 2024. 200 P.
4. Political Parties in Africa (Special Issue of Journal of the Institute for African Studies. 2023, № 2 [63]. 162 P.; in co-operation).
5. Up Close and From Afar: New World Anthropology from Russian and American Perspectives (Proceedings from the 1st and 2nd Russian-American Research Nexus Forums). Moscow: Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology Press, 2022. 252 P. (in co-operation).
6. “Every Citizen is an Integral Part of the Nation”. To the Centenary of the Birth of Julius Kambarage Nyerere, the Founding Father of Independent Tanzania. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 2022. 266 P. (in co-operation).
7. International Conference “Leadership and Power in Africa in the Past and the Present: Studies in Russia, Tanzania and Beyond”. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1 – 4 March 2022. Book of Abstracts. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 2022. 188 P.
8. Role of Material Sources in Information Support of Historical Science: A Collection of Articles. Moscow: s.p., 2020. 702 P. (in co-operation).
9. The Evolution of Social Institutions: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. XVII, 661 P. (in co-operation).
10. International Conference “Africa: History and Results of Decolonization (For the 60th Anniversary of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples)”. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 2 – 5 November 2020. Book of Abstracts. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 2020. 143 P.
11. The Omnipresent Past. Historical Anthropology of Africa and African Diaspora. Moscow: LRC Publishing House, 2019. 392 P. (in co-operation).
12. Plural Trajectories: Introduction to African Futures (Special Issue of Journal of the Institute for African Studies. 2019, № 2 [47]. 130 P.; in co-operation).
13. First International Social Scientists’ Conference “State-Building in Africa: Prospects and Challenges”. Book of Abstracts. Dar es Salaam: The Mwalimu Nyerere Memorial Academy; Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, 2019. 88 P. (in co-operation).
14. International Conference “Elections in Africa”. Book of Abstracts. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 2018. 108 P.
15. State Building, States, and State Transformation in Africa (Special Issue of Social Evolution and History. 2018. Vol. 17, № 1. 208 P.; in co-operation).
16. International Conference “Non-Western Europe and Africa: Connections in the Past and the Present”. Book of Abstracts. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 2016. 56 P. (in co-operation).
17. Anthropology, History, and Memory in Sub-Saharan Africa. In Memoriam Michel Izard (Special Issue of Social Evolution and History. 2014. Vol. 13, № 2. 175 P.; in co-operation).
18. Africa: Processes of Socio-cultural Transformation. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 2014. 177 P. (in co-operation).
19. Proceedings of the Institute for African Studies Young Scholars Council. Vol. 1. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 2014. 264 P.
20. Conflicts in Africa: Causes, Genesis and Problems of Settling (Ethnopolitical and Social Aspects). Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 2013. 459 P. (in co-operation).
21. “Hierarchy and Power in the History of Civilizations”. Fifth International Conference (Moscow, June 23–26, 2009). Abstracts. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 2009. 320 P. (in co-operation).
22. The Ruler and His Subjects: Socio-Cultural Norm and Restrictions on the Individual Power. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 2009. 307 P. (in co-operation).
23. Alternativity in Cultural History: Heterarchy and Homoarchy as Evolutionary Trajectories. Third International Conference “Hierarchy and Power in the History of Civilizations”. June 18-21 2004, Moscow. Selected Papers. Vol. I. Moscow: Center for Civilizational and Regional Studies Press, 2007. 196 P. (in co-operation).
24. Third International Conference “Hierarchy and Power in the History of Civilizations”. June 18-21 2004, Moscow. Selected Papers. Vol. II. Moscow: Center for Civilizational and Regional Studies Press, 2007. 108 P. (in co-operation).
25. Fourth International Conference “Hierarchy and Power in the History of Civilizations”. Abstracts. Moscow: Center for Civilizational and Regional Studies & Institute for African Studies Press, 2006. 185 P. (in co-operation).
26. The Early State and Its Alternatives and Analogues. Volgograd: Uchitel’, 2006. 560 P. (in co-operation).
27. Sacralization of Power in the History of Civilizations. Pt. I. Moscow: Russian Academy of Sciences Press, 2005. 241 P.
28. African Studies by the New Russian Africanists. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 2004. 188 P.
29. The Early State, Its Alternatives and Analogues. Volgograd: Uchitel’, 2004. VI+535 P. (in co-operation).
30. Third International Conference “Hierarchy and Power in the History of Civilizations”. Abstracts. Moscow: Center for Civilizational and Regional Studies & Institute for African Studies Press, 2004. 253 P. (in co-operation).
31. Nomadic Pathways in Social Evolution. Moscow: Center for Civilizational and Regional Studies Press, 2003. 181 P. (in co-operation).
32. Second International Conference “Hierarchy and Power in the History of Civilizations”. Abstracts. Supplementary Volume. St. Petersburg: Center for Civilizational and Regional Studies Press & Institute of Oriental Studies, 2002. 70 P. (in co-operation).
33. Second International Conference “Hierarchy and Power in the History of Civilizations”. Abstracts. Moscow: Center for Civilizational and Regional Studies, 2002. 262 P. (in co-operation).
34. The Nomadic Alternative of Social Evolution. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 2002. 260 P. (in co-operation).
35. Personality, Ethnos, and Culture at Social Turning-Points. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 2001. 74 P.
36. Alternative Pathways to Civilization. Moscow: Logos, 2000. 368 P. (in co-operation).
37. Alternatives of Social Evolution. Vladivostok: FEB RAS, 2000. VIII, 310 P. (in co-operation).
38. Civilizational Models of Politogenesis. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 2000. 318 P. (in co-operation; the same in Russian: Moscow: Russian Academy of Sciences Press, 2002. 313 P.).
39. Hierarchy and Power in the History of Civilizations. Abstracts of International Conference. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 2000. 140 P. (in co-operation).
40. Africa: Societies, Cultures, Languages (Traditional and Modern African City). Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 1999. 267 P. (in co-operation).
41. Africa: Societies, Cultures, Languages. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 1998. 271 P. (in co-operation).
42. Africa: Societies, Cultures, Languages (Interaction of Cultures in the Process of Socioeconomic and Political Transformation of Local Societies. History and Contemporainty). Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 1998. 229 P. (in co-operation).
43. Africa: Societies, Cultures, Languages (Problems of Theory and Methodology). Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 1996. 217 P. (in co-operation).
44. Space and Time in Archaic and Traditional Cultures. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 1996. 233 P. (in co-operation).
45. Africa: Culture and Society (The Historical Aspect). Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 1995. 276 P. (in co-operation).
46. Civilizations of Tropical Africa: Societies, Cultures, Languages. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 1993. 220 P. (in co-operation).
IV. Teaching documents:
1. The State: Nature and Characteristic Features. In V.A. Tishkov (ed.). Anthropology and Ethnology. Textbook for BA and MA Programs. Moscow: Izdatel’skiy dom KDU, 2018. P. 282-292.
2. Social Institutions. In V.A. Tishkov (ed.). Bases of Humanitarian Knowledge. Text-book. Pt. 1. Moscow: National Research Nuclear University “MIFI”, 2017. P. 28-53 (2nd revised ed.: Moscow: National Research Nuclear University “MIFI”, 2019. P. 103-128).
3. Program of the Course “History of Anthropological Thought”. Graduate Program in Ethnography, Ethnology and Anthropology. Copyrighted by the Learning Council of the Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences on October 09, 2012. http://www.inafran.ru/sites/default/files/page_file/istoriya_antroplogicheskoy_mysli.pdf
4. History of Social (Cultural) Anthropology. In O.Yu. Artemova, T.B. Uvarova (eds.). Social Anthropology. Programs of Courses. Moscow: Russian State University for the Humanities Press, 2006. P. 51-77 (with A.A. Belik, A.V. Korotayev, M.V. Tendryakova).
5. Social Anthropology (Theoretical Backgrounds). In O.Yu. Artemova, T.B. Uvarova (eds.). Social Anthropology. Programs of Courses. Moscow: Russian State University for the Humanities Press, 2006. P. 30-50 (with O.Yu. Artemova, A.A. Kazankov, A.V. Korotayev, N.N. Sadomskaya, T.B. Uvarova).
6. Social Anthropology of Culture Areas of the World. In O.Yu. Artemova, T.B. Uvarova (eds.). Social Anthropology. Programs of Courses. Moscow: Russian State University for the Humanities Press, 2006. P. 78-121 (with O.Yu. Artemova, A.A. Kazankov, A.V. Korotayev, N.N. Sadomskaya, T.B. Uvarova, O.B. Khristoforova).
7. Personality and Authority in History. In O.Yu. Artemova (ed.). Anthropological Science in High School. Teaching Materials for Original Author Special Courses. Moscow: Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology Press; Russian State University for the Humanities Press, 2006. P. 20-33.
8. Political Anthropology. Program of the Course for Undergraduate Students. Moscow: Russian State University for the Humanities Press, 1999. 12 P.
9. Anthropology of Archaic Societies (Program of the Course). In Yu.M. Reznik (ed.). Social Anthropology at the University. A Collection of Teaching Materials. Moscow: State Social University “Sojuz” Press, 1997. P. 240-253 (with A.V. Korotayev).