Dmitri BONDARENKO

BondarenkoРИНЦ AuthorID: 107062
SPIN (РИНЦ ID): 9890-2414
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Researcher ID: P-3372-2015
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PERSONAL STATUS:
Born on June 9, 1968 in Moscow, Russia/USSR.

ACADEMIC DEGREES AND TITLES:
2016: Corresponding Member (History) from the Russian Academy of Sciences.
2015: Professor (Global Problems and International Relations) from the Russian Academy of Sciences.
2007: Full Professor (Ethnology) from the Russian State University for the Humanities and the Lomonosov Moscow State University.
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.

PUBLICATIONS (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 (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. Theses Official Synopses:

  1. Pre-imperial Benin: Formation and Evolution of the Socio-political Institutions System.Sc. thesis official summary. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 2000. 62 P.
  2. Benin on the Eve of the First Contacts with Europeans. Evolutionary and Civilizational Peculiarities.D. thesis official summary. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 1993. 24 P.

III. Journal Articles and Book Chapters:

  1. 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. Vol. 12. Moscow: Russian Academy of Sciences, 2023. P. 286-301.
  2. Not Only Former Colonies but the Whole Contemporary World Is Postcolonial. Etnograficheskoe obozrenie. 2023, № 3. P. 165-186 (with E.I. Filippova).
  3. Dynamics of State Origins in Comparative Perspective. Zhōngguó shèhuì kēxué. 2023, № 6 (330). P. 145–165 (with N.N. Kradin, D.D. Beliaev).
  4. Civil War Memory, Anti-racism, and the American Nation: Late 2010s – Early 2020s. Vestnik Moskovskogo universiteta. 8. Istoriya. 2023, № 1. P. 138-164.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. Nation-building in Post-colonial Sub-Saharan African States: Tanzania, Zambia, and Uganda Compared. Azija i Afrika segodnja. 2022. № 1. P. 15-23.
  11. 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).
  12. 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).
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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).
  17. Nation-Building in Post-Colonial States: Historical Past and Present-Day Realities. Journal of Globalization Studies. Vol. 12, № 1. P. 18-37.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. Social Institutions and Basic Principles of the Organization of Societies. Sibirskie istoricheskie issledovanija. 2021, № 1. P. 138-164.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. Orthodox of Uganda: Sociocultural Processes in African Christian Communities. Vestnik RFFI. Gumanitarnye i obshchestvennye nauki. 2020, № 1. P. 124-134 (with Andrey V. Tutorskiy).
  26. Conversion to Orthodox Christianity in Uganda: A Hundred Years of Spiritual Encounter with Modernity, 1919–2019. 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).
  27. Is Modernity a Third Axial Age? NETSOL: New Trends in Social and Liberal Sciences. Vol. 4. № 2. P. 1-23 (with K. Baskin).
  28. 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).
  29. 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.
  30. Plural Trajectories: Introduction to African Futures. Journal of the Institute for African Studies. 2019, № 2 (47). P. 5-14 (with D. O’Kane).
  31. In Search of the True Faith: the Appearance of Orthodox Old Believers in Uganda and Spiritual Anti-globalism in Contemporary Africa. Journal of Contemporary Christianities in Context. 2019. Vol. 48, № 2. P. 127-155.
  32. 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.
  33. Migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa in Moscow: Social Differences and Life Strategies. Vostok / Oriens. 2018, № 6. P. 162-171.
  34. 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.
  35. Metamorphoses of the African American Identity in Post-segregation Era and the Theory of Afrocentrism. Kontury global’nykh transformatsij: politika, ekonomika, pravo. Vol. 11, № 2. P. 30-45 (with Nadezhda E. Khokholkova).
  36. State Building, States, and State Transformation in Africa: Introduction. Social Evolution and History. Vol. 17, № 1 (Special Issue State Building, States, and State Transformation in Africa). P. 3-15 (with C.I. Njoku).
  37. The Role of Complexity Studies in the Emerging “Processual” Worldview. Emergence: Complexity and Organization. 2018. Vol. 20, № 1. P. 1-12 (with K. Baskin).
  38. 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.
  39. Nation in the Time of Intensive Globalization. Vestnik of the Moscow State Linguistic University. Obshchestvennye nauki. 2017, № 3. С. 115-124.
  40. “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.
  41. Expedition to the Republic of Uganda. Traditsionnaja kul’tura. № 3. P. 179-191 (with Alina O. Lapushkina).
  42. African Migrants in Post-Soviet Moscow: Adaptation and Integration in a Time of Radical Socio-Political Transformations. Ìrìnkèrindò: a Journal of African Migration. Iss. 9. P. 35-75. http://africamigration.com/issue/dec2017/Full_Issue_9.pdf.
  43. 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. III. The Ways that Big History Works: Cosmos, Life, Society and our Future. Delhi: Primus Books, 2017. P. 183-196 (with K. Baskin).
  44. 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.
  45. African Americans and African Migrants: Divergence of Mentalities. 2017. № 1. P. 57-70.
  46. 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.
  47. 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.
  48. 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.
  49. 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).
  50. 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.
  51. 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.
  52. 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.
  53. 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. № 4. P. 139-166 (http://www.historystudies.msu.ru/ojs2/index.php/ISIS/article/view/68/159).
  54. “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. № 1. P. 38-61.
  55. 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.
  56. State: The Nature of the Phenomenon. Kratkie soobshchenija Instiuta arkheologii. № 238. P. 13-25.
  57. 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. Vol. 40, № 3. P. 5-30.
  58. 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. Vol. 52, № 3 (199). P. 451-472.
  59. 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.
  60. The Benin Kingdom (13th –19th Centuries) as a Megacommunity. Social Evolution and History. Vol. 14, № 2. P. 46-76.
  61. “Ghosts of the Past”: Historic Memory as a Factor of Mutual Perception of African Americans and Contemporary African Migrants in the USA. Antropologicheskij forum. № 26. P. 87-126.
  62. 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.
  63. 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).
  64. Ethnic Cultures, National Cultures, and Transnational Culture in the Time of Intensive Globalization. Vestnik antropologii. 2014, № 2. P. 15-19.
  65. State as a Phenomenon of Social History: Nature and Distinctive Features. Istoricheskaja psikhologija i sotsiologija istorii. 2014, № 2. P. 164-1
  66. On the Nature and Features of the (Early) State: An Anthropological Reanalysis. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie. 2014. Vol. 139, № 2. P. 215-232.
  67. Historical Memory and Intercultural Tolerance: Students’ Attitudes to the Colonialism-Born Minorities in Tanzania and Zambia. Social Evolution and History. Vol. 13, № 2 (Special Issue Anthropology, History, and Memory in Sub-Saharan Africa. In Memoriam Michel Izard). P. 97-118.
  68. Anthropology, History, and Memory in Sub-Saharan Africa. In Memoriam Michel Izard. Introduction. Social Evolution and History. 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).
  69. 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).
  70. African Entrepreneurs in Moscow: How They Did It Their Way. Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development. 43: 1–3. P. 205-254 (with E.B. Demintseva, V.V. Usacheva, D.A. Zelenova).
  71. The Early Medieval Society in the Light of Social Anthropology. Srednie veka. 2014. Vol. 75, № 1/2. P. 481-491.
  72. Communality: A Foundation of Sub-Saharan African Historical, Cultural, and Socio-political Tradition. Vostok / Oriens. 2014, № 2. P. 10-22.
  73. “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).
  74. 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).
  75. MBA in the Depth of Western African Cultures. Expedition of Managers and Scholars to Benin, Togo, and Ghana. Azija i Afrika segodnja. 2014, № 1. 53-59 (with A.G. Teslinov).
  76. Foreign Aid and Self-Reliance in Post-Socialist Tanzania (The Case of the Distribution of Mosquito Bed Nets). Modern Africa: Politics, History and Society. Vol. 1, № 1. P. 67-103 (with J. Nkyabonaki and B.M. Mkunde).
  77. 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).
  78. Africa South of the Sahara in the Second Half of the 15th – 17th 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).
  79. 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. 1-20).
  80. 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).
  81. 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.
  82. 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).
  83. Black Africa on the Eve of the Europeans’ Arrival. In P.Yu. Uvarov (ed.). World History. 2. Mediaeval Civilizations of the West and the East. Moscow: Nauka, 2012. P. 770-783 (2nd ed. – 2019. P. 837-850).
  84. 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.
  85. 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. 4. Moscow: Aspekt Press, 2012. P. 1338-1355 (with I.O. Abramova).
  86. Africa: Nations Formation and Ethno-Racial Tolerance. Azija i Afrika segodnja. 2011. № 12. P. 33-39 – 2012. № 1. P. 40-46.
  87. The Second Axial Age and Metamorphoses of Religious Consciousness in the “Christian World”. Journal of Globalization Studies. 2011. Vol. 2, № 1. P. 113-136.
  88. Adaptation of Africans in Moscow: Distinctive Features and Problems. In A.M. Vasiliev (ed.). African Studies in Russia. Yearbook 2008–2009. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 2011. P. 120-133 (with E.A. Googueva, S.N. Serov, E.V. Shakhbazyan; the same in Russian, in: Azija i Afrika segodnja. 2009, № 10. P. 43-47, № 11. P. 38-41).
  89. Social Evolution: Alternatives and Variations (Introduction). In L.E. Grinin, R.L. Carneiro, A.V. Korotayev, and F. Spier (eds.). Evolution: Cosmic, Biological, and Social. Volgograd: Uchitel, 2011. P. 215-254 (with L.E. Grinin, A.V. Korotayev; the same in Russian, in L.E. Grinin, A.V. Markov, and A.V. Korotayev (eds.). Evolution: Problems and Discussions. Moscow: LKI Press, 2010. P. 120-159).
  90. Education and Tolerance in Tanzania (by the Evidence Collected by the Russian Anthropological Expedition in 2003 and 2005). In Yu.N. Vinokurov (ed.). Julius Kambarage Nyerere – the First President of Independent Tanzania. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 2010. P. 56-62.
  91. The Double-headed Eagle upon the Red Background: “The Soviet Legacy” in the Image of Russia in the Africans’ Consciousness. In T.L. Deich, E.N. Korendyasov (eds.). Russia – Africa: New Trends in Relationships. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 2010. P. 66-108.
  92. The Edo Pantheon and the Origin of the Institution of Supreme Ruler in Benin. In N.B. Kochakova, V.A. Popov (eds.). Symbol. Power. Festschrift for Professor Irina Sinitsyna. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 2010. P. 316-323 (with P.M. Roese).
  93. In the Red Banner’s Shade: The Image of Post-Soviet Russia in Africa. Africa Review. 2010. 2, № 1. P. 1-14.
  94. Some Key Issues in the Hunter-Gatherers Studies in the Context of Archaic Societies Evolution General Theory. Etnograficheskoe obozrenie. 2010, № 3. P. 146–155.
  95. Africans in Russia: A Forming Diaspora? Al’manakh Tsentra obshchestvennykh svjazej. 2009, № 4. P. 208-218 (with S.N. Serov, E.V. Shakhbazyan).
  96. In D.M. Bondarenko, A.A. Nemirovskiy (eds.). The Ruler and His Subjects: Socio-Cultural Norm and Restrictions on the Individual Power. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 2009. P. 271–306 (with A.A. Nemirovskiy).
  97. In D.M. Bondarenko, A.A. Nemirovskiy (eds.). The Ruler and His Subjects: Socio-Cultural Norm and Restrictions on the Individual Power. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 2009. P. 5–17 (with A.A. Nemirovskiy).
  98. ‘Postsocialism Meets Postcolonialism’: African Migrants in the Russian Capital. Anthropological Journal of European Cultures. 2009. Vol. 18, N 2. P. 87-105 (with E.A. Googueva, S.N. Serov, E.V. Shakhbazyan).
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  104. Kinship, Territoriality and the Early State Lower Limit. Social Evolution and History. 2008. Vol. 7, N 1. P. 19-53.
  105. Education and Tolerance in Contemporary Tanzania: The Ethno-racial and Religious Aspects. In A.V. Korotayev and E.B. Demintseva (eds.). Interracial and Interethnic Relations in Contemporary Tanzania. Publications of the Russian Complex Expedition to the United Republic of Tanzania (2005 Field Season). Moscow: LENAND, 2008. P. 94–121.
  106. The Second Field Season of the Russian Complex Expedition to the United Republic of Tanzania. In A.V. Korotayev and E.B. Demintseva (eds.). Interracial and Interethnic Relations in Contemporary Tanzania. Publications of the Russian Complex Expedition to the United Republic of Tanzania (2005 Field Season). Moscow: LENAND, 2008. P. 5–7 (with E.B. Demintseva and A.V. Korotayev).
  107. Interreligious Tolerance in Contemporary Tanzania: The Gender Aspect of Christian-Muslim Mutual Attitudes. In A.A. Kazankov and N.A. Ksenofontova (eds.). The Man and the Woman. Evolution of Relations. Moscow: Institute for African Studies, 2007. P. 249-269.
  108. Abstract Signs and Pictorial Marks as a Means of Historical and Cultural Information Preservation and Transmission in Precolonial Benin. Vostok / Oriens. 2007, № 4. P. 5-15 (with P.M Roese; the same: Historiography without Writing? Abstract Signs and Pictorial Marks as a Means of Historical Information Preservation and Transmission in Precolonial Benin. In D.D. Beliaev and T.V. Guimon (eds.). The Beginnings of Historical Writing in Ancient and Medieval Societies. Moscow: Dmitry Pozharsky Univesity, 2016. P. 281-302; Consolidation of Sacral Power: Abstract Signs and Pictorial Marks as a Means of Historical and Cultural Information Preservation and Transmission in Precolonial Benin. In A.L. Ryabinin (ed.). The Sacral in the Traditional East. Moscow: Institute of Oriental Studies Press, 2017. P. 458-479).
  109. Africa: The «Soviet Heritage» in the Image of Russia. Azija i Afrika segodnja. 2007, № 7. P. 37-43.
  110. Approaching “Complexity” in Anthropology and Complexity Studies: The Principles of Socio-political Organization and Prospects for Bridging the Interdisciplinary Gap. Emergence: Complexity and Organization. 2007. Vol. 9, № 3. P. 55-67 (Reprinted in: P.M. Allen, K.A. Richardson, J.A. Goldstein, and D. Snowden (eds.). Emergence, Complexity and Organization. E:CO Annual. 9. Goodyear, AZ: ISCE Publishing, 2008. P. 439-460).
  111. Benin Kingdom (13th– 19th Centuries): A Supercomplex Non-state Society. In D.M. Bondarenko and A.A. Nemirovskiy (eds.). 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. Moscow: Center for Civilizational and Regional Studies Press, 2007. P. 125–166.
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  116. The Soviet Union and Contemporary Russia: The Succession of Images in Consciousness of the Africans. Novye rossijskie gumanitarnye issledovanija. 2007. No 2. http://www.nrgumis.ru/articles/96/.
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  149. Ancient Benin: Where Did the First Monarchs Come From? Asian and African Studies. 2001. Vol. 10, № 2. P. 185-198 (with P.M. Roese).
  150. Benin City before 1897: A Town Map and a Map of the Palace Area with Description. Ethnographisch-Archaeologische Zeitschrift. 2001. Vol. 42, № 4. P. 555-571 (with P.M. Roese and A. Rees).
  151. Family Structures and Community Organization: Theoretical Introduction and Socio-Cultural Background of a Pre-Colonial African Kingdom. In I.V. Sledzevski, A.D. Savateev (eds.). Evolution of Traditional Institutions in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 2001. P. 49-58 (with A.V. Korotayev).
  152. Ludewig Ferdinand Römer's "Nachrichten von der Küste Guinea" (Mid-18th Century) as a Source on the Benin Kingdom History and Culture. Tribus. 2001. Vol. 50. P. 135-149 (with P.M. Roese and T.M.L. Roese).
  153. Origins and Evolution of Chiefdoms. Reviews in Anthropology. 2001. Vol. 30, № 4. P. 373-395 (with D.D. Beliaev and A.V. Korotayev).
  154. Polygyny and Democracy: A Cross-Cultural Research. In V.A. Popov (ed.), Algebra of Kinship. Issue 7. St. Petersburg: Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography Press, 2001. P. 173-186 (with A.V. Korotayev).
  155. Benin (1st  Millennium BC – 19th Century AD). In D.M. Bondarenko and A.V. Korotayev (eds.). Civilizational Models of Politogenesis. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 2000. P. 87-127 (the same in Russian: Moscow: Russian Academy of Sciences Press, 2002. P. 89-129; 2nd: Saarbrücken: Lambert Academic Publishing, 2011. P. 70–103).
  156. Community and Organization of Agricultural Production in Pre-colonial Benin. In V.A. Popov (ed.). Early Forms of Social Organization: Genesis, Functions, Historical Dynamics. Petersburg: Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, 2000. P. 93-108.
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  158. Family Size and Community Organization: A Cross-Cultural Comparison. Cross-Cultural Research. 2000. Vol. 34, № 2. P. 152-189 (with A.V. Korotayev).
  159. “Homologous Series” of Social Evolution and Alternatives to the State in World History (An Introduction). In N.N. Kradin, A.V. Korotayev, D.M. Bondarenko, V. de Munck, and P.K. Wason (eds.). Alternatives of Social Evolution. Vladivostok: FEB RAS, 2000. P. 213-219 (The same in: N. Kradin, D.M. Bondarenko, A.V. Korotayev (eds.). Alternatives of Social Evolution. 2nd ed. Saarbrücken: Lambert Academic Publishing, 2011. P. 335-345; the same in Russian in: N.N. Kradin, A.V. Korotayev, D.M. Bondarenko, V.A. Lynsha (eds.). Alternative Pathways to Civilization. Moscow: Logos, 2000. P. 198-206).
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  161. Polygyny and Democracy: A Cross-Cultural Comparison. Cross-Cultural Research. 2000. Vol. 34, № 2. P. 190-208 (with A.V. Korotayev).
  162. Power in Mass Consciousness and Political Struggle in Benin (13th - 16th Centuries). In L.S. Vasiliev (ed.). Political Intrigue in the East. Moscow: Vostochnaja literatura, 2000. P. 327-350.
  163. Benin Prehistory. The Origin and Settling Down of the Edo. Anthropos. 1999. Vol. 94, № 4/6. P. 542-552 (with P.M. Roese).
  164. Civilizational and Evolutionary in History: Dialectics of Correlation. In G.N. Sevost’janov (ed.). Problems of Historical Cognition. Moscow: Nauka, 1999. P. 92-102.
  165. Politogenesis, “Homologous Series” and Non-linear Models of Social Evolution (A Cross-Cultural Testing of Some Political Anthropological Hypotheses). Obshchestvennye nauki i sovremennost’. 1999, № 5. P. 129-140 (with A.V. Korotayev).
  166. The Genesis of Political Organization and “Homologous Series” of Social Evolution. In Yu.M. Reznik (ed.). Social Anthropology at the Threshold of the 21st Century. Moscow: State Social University Press, 1998. Р. 134-137 (with A.V. Korotayev).
  167. Pre-dynastic Edo: The independent local community government system and socio-political evolution. Ethnographisch-Archaeologische Zeitschrift. 1998. Vol. 39, № 3. P. 367-372 (with P.M. Roese).
  168. The “Early State” Concept: Basic Tenets and an Attempt of Their Assessment. In I.V. Sledzevski, D.M. Bondarenko (eds.). Africa: Societies, Cultures, Languages. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 1998. P. 16-26.
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  174. Civilization of Tropical Africa and Her Fortunes in Precolonial Epochs. In O. Chubaryan (ed.). Civilizations. Vol. 4. Moscow: MALP, 1997. P. 65-78.
  175. The Person and the Universe in Art of Transitional Epoch: Precolonial Benin. Modern and Contemporary History. Vol. 16. P. 204-213.
  176. Ancestors’ Cult as the Central Element of Traditional Religious-and-Mythological Systems of Tropical Africa. In I.V. Sledzevski, D.M. Bondarenko et al. (eds.). Africa: Societies, Cultures, Languages (Problems of Theory and Methodology). Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 1996. P. 81-95.
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  181. Spatial-and-Temporal “System of Co-ordinates” of Ancient Benin Inhabitants (West Africa). In I.V. Sledzevski, D.M. Bondarenko (eds.). Space and Time in Archaic and Traditional Cultures. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 1996. P. 65-88.
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IV. Conference Paper Abstracts:

  1. Neotraditionalism and Nation Building in Postcolonial States. In D.M. Bondarenko (ed.). 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. P. 164–166.
  2. Nation Building in Post-Colonial Africa: Tanzania, Zambia, and Uganda Compared. In P. Wekesa (ed.). The Toyin Falola @ 70 Conference “Post-Colonial Africa: Historical and Contemporary Realities”. 10th – 12th, May 2023. Nairobi: Kenyatta University, 2023. P. 43-44.
  3. Post-colonial Africa: Historical Memory – Nation-building – Neotraditionalism. In N.N. Dyakov, A.O. Pobedonostseva Kaya, P.I. Rysakova (eds.). XXXII International Congress on Source Studies and Historiography of Asia and Africa: Russia and the East. Сommemorating 300th anniversary of Saint-Petersburg State University. Proceedings. Petersburg: RHGA Press, 2023. P. 421–422.
  4. Nation-building in a Multicultural World: Three African Countries Compared. In D.M. Bondarenko (ed.). 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. P. 85 (the same in Russian: Ibid. P. 86-87).
  5. Cultural Memory of the Civil War and Emancipation in the Context of the Current Anti-racist Struggle 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. 779.
  6. The Past Matters: Memory of the Slave Trade and Relationship between African Americans and African Migrants in the USA. In N.A. Zherlitsyna (ed.). XV International Conference of Africanists “Destinies of Africa in the Modern World”. Moscow, Russia. May 24–28, 2021. Abstracts. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 2021. P. 172-173.
  7. Coping with the Difficult Past: Remembering and Forgetting the Slave Trade and Slavery in Africa, Europe, and the Americas. In N.A. Zherlitsyna (ed.). XV International Conference of Africanists “Destinies of Africa in the Modern World”. Moscow, Russia. May 24–28, 2021. Abstracts. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 2021. 164 (with H.D. Weaver).
  8. Spiritual Anti-globalism in Postcolonial Africa: The Case of Orthodox Old Believers in Uganda. In D.M. Bondarenko (ed.). 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. P. 117-118.
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  47. Local Civilizations in the Face of Globalization: Contemporary Theoretical Approaches and the Future of Non-Western Culture. In D.D. Beliaev, and D.M. Bondarenko (eds.). 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. P. 150-151.
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  50. Alternativity in Cultural History: Heterarchy and Homoarchy as Evolutionary Trajectories. In I.L. Alexeev, D.D. Beliaev, and D.M. Bondarenko (eds.). 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. P. 5 (with C.L. Crumley).
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  52. The Benin Kingdom: A Homoarchic Alternative to the Homoarchic State. In I.L. Alexeev, D.D. Beliaev, and D.M. Bondarenko (eds.). 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. P. 14.
  53. Natural Environment and Socio-Economic Organization of Pre-Colonial Benin. In N.A. Tomilov (ed.). 5th Congress of Ethnographers and Anthropologists of Russia. Book of Abstracts. Moscow: Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology Press, 2003. P. 271.
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  55. Sacralization of the Ruler and Sociopolitical Processes: The Case of Benin Kingdom (13th- 19th Centuries). Lo Straniero (Napoli). 2003. № 37. P. 37-38.
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  57. Sacralization of Power in Premodern, Modern and Postmodern Societies: Anthropological Perspective. In A.V. Mikkelsen (ed.). Engaging the World. Book of Abstracts. 7th Biennial European Association of Social Anthropologists Conference. Copenhagen. 14th- 17th August 2002. Copenhagen: University of Copenhagen, 2002. P. 331 (with A.V. Korotayev).
  58. Sacralization of Supreme Power in a Preindustrial Complex Society: The Benin Kingdom of the 13th- 19th In A.V. Mikkelsen (ed.). Engaging the World. Book of Abstracts. 7th Biennial European Association of Social Anthropologists Conference. Copenhagen. 14th- 17th August 2002. Copenhagen: University of Copenhagen, 2002. P. 332.
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V. Brief reviews, communications, discussions, reports, encyclopedia entries, translations, etc.:

1. Preface (to the issue Ad Memoriam Henri J.M. Claessen). Social Evolution and History. 2023. Vol.22, № 2. P. 3 (with L.E. Grinin, A.V. Korotayev).
2. True Africa is Present-day Africa. Mir muzeya. 2023, № 6. P. 18-19 (with D.S. Sabinia).
3. Editorial Note. Journal of the Institute for African Studies. 2023, № 2 (63). P. 8-9 (with M. Santos, M. Aty).
4. Dear Henri, … Social Evolution and History. 2022. Vol. 21, № 2. P. 161-163.
5. Kuper. Nauchno-obrazovatel’nyj entsiklopedicheskij portal “Znanija”. 2022. https://znaniya.org/c/kuper-khil-da-aaee9d (with I.V. Ponomaryov).
6. Mair. Nauchno-obrazovatel’nyj entsiklopedicheskij portal “Znanija”. 2022. https://znaniya.org/c/meir-liusi-215cdd (with I.V. Ponomaryov).
7. Modern Neiro/Cognitive Sciences and the Humanities: What Can They Give Each Other? Izvestiya Vostochnogo instituta. 2022. № 2. P. 140-167 (with V.V. Gavrilov, R.I. Dremlyuga, V.A. Klyucharyov, D.V. Kononchuk, А.M. Kuznetsov, А.L. Lukin, N.S. Rozov, S.V. Chugrov, and E.S. Yurchenko).
8. International Center of Anthropology at the HSE Faculty of Humanities: Historical Anthropology between Russian Academic Tradition and Modern Global Trends. History HSE. 2022, № 1. P. 161–165 (with A.A. Banshchikova).
9. The Splendors and Miseries of Identity: What Are the Pitfalls of Theoretical Negligence? Izvestiya Vostochnogo instituta. 2021. № 2. P. 85-107 (with А.M. Kuznetsov, V.V. Gavrilov, V.N. Konyshev, А.L. Lukin, V.V. Malyavin, R.R. Nazarov, S.N. Fedorchenko, and S.E. Yachin).
10. Comment: The Fiscal Economy of Good Government. Past and Present, by Richard E. Blanton, Lane F. Fargher, Gary M. Feinman, and Stephen A. Kowalewski. Current Anthropology. 2021. Vol. 62, № 1. P. 87-88.
11. Review of Peša, Iva. Roads Through Mwinilunga: A History of Social Change in Northwest Zambia. H-Africa, H-Net Reviews. November, 2020. URL: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=55890.
12. Review of Leonard, Douglas W. Anthropology, Colonial Policy and the Decline of French Empire in Africa. H-Africa, H-Net Reviews. September, 2020. URL: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55644.
13. Review: Thelen, Tatjana & Erdmute Alber (eds). Reconnecting state and kinship. vi, 250 pp., bibliogrs. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.). 2020. Vol. 26, № 1. P. 237-238.
14. Editorial. The Journal of US-Africa Studies. 2019. Vol. 1, № 1. P. 5-8.
15. About Sasha, about the Time, and about Myself. In A.A. Banshchikova, I.A. Ladynin, V.Yu. Shelestin (eds.). “He, who Keeps the Big Time”: Festschrift for Aleksandr Arkadievich Nemirovskiy on His Fiftieth Anniversary. Moscow: s.e., 2018. P. 6-10.
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24. Russia, USA, China, Europe, Muslim World: Images in Africa. In R.A. Kazakova (ed.). Scholarly Expeditions of the Russian Humanitarian Foundation. Moscow: Russian Humanitarian Foundation Press, 2014. P. 407-408.
25. Review: Ludomir R. Lozny, Prestate Societies of the North Central European Plains, 600 – 900 CE. New York: Springer 2013, 96 pp. ISBN 978-1-4614-6814-1 (Springer Briefs in Anthropology: Human Ecology). Human Ecology. 2014. Vol. 42, № 3. P. 507-508.
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168. Discussion of the book: L.B. Alaev. History of the East. Prehistoric Period. Antiquity. Middle Ages. Modern Time. Text-book. Moscow: ROSMEN, 2007. Vostok / Oriens. 2009. No 6. P. 173-174.
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173. Expedition of the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences to the Republic of Benin. Novye rossijskie gumanitarnye issledovanija. 2008. No 3. http://www.nrgumis.ru/articles/article_full.php?aid=84&binn_rubrik_pl_articles=209 (with A.A Banschikova, O.I. Kavykin).
174. Expedition of the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences to the United Republic of Tanzania. Vostok / Oriens. 2008. No 5. P. 154-155 (with A.A Banschikova, O.I. Kavykin).
175. Review: A.S. Balezin. Tropical and Southern Africa in Modern and Contemporary Times: People, Problems, Events. Moscow, 2008. Vostok / Oriens. 2008, № 3. P. 189-192.
176. Expedition of the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences to the United Republic of Tanzania. Novye rossijskie gumanitarnye issledovanija. 2008. No 3. http://www.nrgumis.ru/articles/article_full.php?aid=74&binn_rubrik_pl_articles=226 (with A.A Banschikova, O.I. Kavykin).
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180. Review: L.E. Grinin. The State and the Historical Process. Vol. 1-3. Moscow, 2007. Vostok / Oriens. 2007, № 5. P. 186-188 (with A.V. Korotayev).
181. The Russian Expedition to the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Vostok / Oriens. 2007. No 2. P. 137-138 (with A.A Banschikova, E.B. Demintseva, O.I. Kavykin).
182. Discussion: “African Cultures as a Civilizational Type”. In E.E. Lebedeva, V.G. Khoros (eds.), African Civilization in the Globalizing World. Vol. 1. Moscow: Institute of World Economy and International Relations Press, 2006. P. 56-62.
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VI. Edited Volumes:

  1. 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.
  2. Childhood Culture of the Avatime People (Ghana, West Africa): Transformation of Socialization Practices in 1870s – 1957, by A.O. Lapushkina. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 2023. 258 P.
  3. Political Parties in Africa (Special Issue of Journal of the Institute for African Studies. 2023, № 2 [63]. 162 P.; in co-operation).
  4. 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).
  5. “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).
  6. 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.
  7. Women and Culture. African Traditions. Modern Trends, by N.A. Ksenofontova, N.Yu. Ilyina, I.G. Tatarovskaya. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 2021. 496 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
  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. School and Politics. A History of Creation and Reformation of the School System in the Countries of Eastern and Southern Africa, by V.V. Gribanova, I.V. Ponomaryov. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 2018. 176 P.
  15. International Conference “Elections in Africa”. Book of Abstracts. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 2018. 108 P.
  16. State Building, States, and State Transformation in Africa (Special Issue of Social Evolution and History. Vol. 17, № 1. 208 P.; in co-operation).
  17. Ethiopia: Particularities of Federalism, by R.N. Ismagilova. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 2018. 544 P. (in co-operation).
  18. 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).
  19. Crucial Periods in Ancient Egyptian Tradition and Historical Consciousness (Late 2nd – 1st Millennia BC), by A.A. Banschikova. Moscow: LENAND, 2015. 208 P.
  20. Anthropology, History, and Memory in Sub-Saharan Africa. In Memoriam Michel Izard (Special Issue of Social Evolution and History. Vol. 13, № 2. 175 P.; in co-operation).
  21. Africa: Processes of Socio-cultural Transformation. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 2014. 177 P. (in co-operation).
  22. Proceedings of the Institute for African Studies Young Scholars Council. 1. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 2014. 264 P.
  23. 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).
  24. Tajikistan (20th Century). Decay and Rebirth of Traditionalism, by R.S. Bobokhonov. Moscow: Center for Civilizational and Regional Studies Press, 2010. 144 P.
  25. “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).
  26. 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).
  27. Female Images in Ancient Egyptian Fiction, by A.A. Banschikova. Moscow: LIBROKOM, 2009. 168 P.
  28. Social Macroevolution. The World System Genesis and Transformations, by L.E. Grinin, A.V. Korotayev. Moscow: LIBROKOM, 2008. 568 P.
  29. 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. I. Moscow: Center for Civilizational and Regional Studies Press, 2007. 196 P. (in co-operation).
  30. Third International Conference “Hierarchy and Power in the History of Civilizations”. June 18-21 2004, Moscow. Selected Papers. II. Moscow: Center for Civilizational and Regional Studies Press, 2007. 108 P. (in co-operation).
  31. The Origins of Islam: The Socio-Ecological and Political-Anthropological Context, by A.V. Korotayev, V.V. Klimenko, D.B. Proussakov. Moscow: OGI, 2007. 112 P.
  32. 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).
  33. The Early State and Its Alternatives and Analogues. Volgograd: Uchitel’, 2006. 560 P. (in co-operation).
  34. Sacralization of Power in the History of Civilizations. I. Moscow: Russian Academy of Sciences Press, 2005. 241 P.
  35. African Studies by the New Russian Africanists. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 2004. 188 P.
  36. The Early State, Its Alternatives and Analogues. Volgograd: Uchitel’, 2004. VI+535 P. (in co-operation).
  37. 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).
  38. Nomadic Pathways in Social Evolution. Moscow: Center for Civilizational and Regional Studies Press, 2003. 181 P. (in co-operation; 2nd: Nomadic Pathway in Social Evolution. Saarbrücken: Lambert Academic Publishing, 2011. 218 P.).
  39. Factors of Intercommunity Aggression in Archaic Societies (Hunter-Gatherers of the Semi-Arid Zones), by A.A. Kazankov. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 2002. 207 P.
  40. Second International Conference “Hierarchy and Power in the History of Civilizations”. Abstracts. Supplementary Volume. Petersburg: Center for Civilizational and Regional Studies Press & Institute of Oriental Studies, 2002. 70 P. (in co-operation).
  41. 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).
  42. The Nomadic Alternative of Social Evolution. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 2002. 260 P. (in co-operation).
  43. Personality, Ethnos, and Culture at Social Turning-Points. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 2001. 74 P.
  44. Alternative Pathways to Civilization. Moscow: Logos, 2000. 368 P. (in co-operation).
  45. Alternatives of Social Evolution. Vladivostok: FEB RAS, 2000. VIII, 310 P. (in co-operation; 2nd: Saarbrücken: Lambert Academic Publishing, 2011. 492 P.).
  46. 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.; 2nd: Saarbrücken: Lambert Academic Publishing, 2011. 257 P.).
  47. Hierarchy and Power in the History of Civilizations. Abstracts of International Conference. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 2000. 140 P. (in co-operation).
  48. Africa: Societies, Cultures, Languages (Traditional and Modern African City). Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 1999. 267 P. (in co-operation).
  49. Africa: Societies, Cultures, Languages. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 1998. 271 P. (in co-operation).
  50. 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).
  51. Africa: Societies, Cultures, Languages (Problems of Theory and Methodology). Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 1996. 217 P. (in co-operation).
  52. Historical-and-Sociological Questionnaire, by L.B. Alaev, A.V. Korotayev. Moscow: Institute of Oriental Studies Press, 1996. 31 P.
  53. Space and Time in Archaic and Traditional Cultures. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 1996. 233 P. (in co-operation).
  54. Africa: Culture and Society (The Historical Aspect). Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 1995. 276 P. (in co-operation).
  55. Civilizations of Tropical Africa: Societies, Cultures, Languages. Moscow: Institute for African Studies Press, 1993. 220 P. (in co-operation).

VII. 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. 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).

VIII. Papers at (those presented in English are bolded):

  1. The Eighth International Conference of Africanists “Africa at the Threshold of the New Millennium”. September 1999, Moscow, Russia.
  2. Special Meeting of Division of Fine Arts and Communication of the Saddleback College. February 2000, Mission Viejo, CA, USA.
  3. International Conference “Hierarchy and Power in the History of Civilizations”. Plenary Session. June 2000, Moscow, Russia.
  4. International Conference “Hierarchy and Power in the History of Civilizations”. Panel “Civilizational Models of the Complex Sociopolitical Organization”. June 2000, Moscow, Russia.
  5. International Conference “Hierarchy and Power in the History of Civilizations”. Panel “Local Models of Politogenesis in the Pre-Industrial World”. June 2000, Moscow, Russia.
  6. The 6th Biennial European Association of Social Anthropologists Conference. Crossing Categorical Boundaries: Religion as Politics / Politics as Religion. July 2000, Cracow, Poland.
  7. Meeting of the Specialized Historical Learning Council of the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. September 2000, Moscow, Russia.
  8. The Ninth International Conference of Africanists “Africa in the Context of North –South Relations”. May 2002, Moscow, Russia.
  9. Second International Conference “Hierarchy and Power in the History of Civilizations”. Panel IV. “The Community and above It: Communal and Supracommunal Institutions in Different Civilizational Contexts”. July 2002, St. Petersburg, Russia.
  10. Second International Conference “Hierarchy and Power in the History of Civilizations”. Panel XVI. “The Rise and Fall of State-Systems in Precolonial Tropical Africa: The Struggle for Power”. July 2002, St. Petersburg, Russia.
  11. The 8th Biennial European Association of Social Anthropologists Conference. Face to Face: Connecting Distance and Proximity. September 2004, Vienna, Austria.
  12. Third Knorozov Readings "Ancient Civilizations of the Old and New Worlds". October 2004, Moscow, Russia.
  13. Special Meeting of the School of Humanities of the University Agostinho Neto. November 2004, Luanda, Angola.
  14. The Tenth International Conference of Africanists “Security for Africa: Internal and External Aspects”. May 2005, Moscow, Russia.
  15. International Conference “The Role of Culture in Strengthening Peace in the World”. September 2005, Beiruth, Lebanon.
  16. Special Meeting of Laboratory of Political Anthropology and Ethnic Anthropology of the Research Institute of Innovative Strategies in the General Education Development. November 2005, Moscow, Russia.
  17. Seminar “Society and Culture”. November 2005, Moscow, Russia.
  18. Fourth Young Africanists Conference (Key-note speech). November 2005, Moscow, Russia.
  19. Seminar “Globalization: Views from Lagos and Moscow”. November 2005, Lagos, Nigeria.
  20. Fourth International Conference “Hierarchy and Power in the History of Civilizations”. June 2006, Moscow, Russia.
  21. XIV International Economic History Congress. August 2006, Helsinki, Finland.
  22. The 9th Biennial European Association of Social Anthropologists Conference. Europe and the World. September 2006, Bristol, UK.
  23. Round Table “The Image of Russia in Nigeria”. November 2006, Lagos, Nigeria.
  24. 3rd International Workshop on Complexity and Philosophy. February 2007, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
  25. 7th Dmitri Olderogge Memorial Readings. May 2007, St. Petersburg, Russia.
  26. Research Workshop on Evolutionary Economics. June 2007, Rorschacherberg, Switzerland.
  27. Round Table “The Image of Russia in Tanzania”. October 2007, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
  28. Seminar “Society and Culture”. December 2007, Moscow, Russia.
  29. Special Meeting of the Center of Social Anthropology of the Russian State University for the Humanities. February 2008, Moscow, Russia.
  30. Seminar “Society and Culture”. May 2008, Moscow, Russia.
  31. 11th Conference of Africanists “Africa’s Development: Possibilities and Constraints”. May 2008, Moscow, Russia.
  32. Meeting at the Embassy of Ethiopia in Russia. June 2008, Moscow, Russia.
  33. International Conference “The Image of Russia in Global Space: History and Contemporainty”. June 2008, Moscow, Russia.
  34. 10th Biennial European Association of Social Anthropologists Conference. “Experiencing Diversity and Mutuality”. August 2008, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
  35. Meeting of the Academic Council of the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. October 2008, Moscow, Russia.
  36.  “Round table” “Inclusion of New Humanitarian and Social Knowledge in School Programs”. October 2008, Moscow, Russia.
  37. Fifth Knorozov Readings "Ancient Civilizations of the Old and New Worlds". November 2008, Moscow, Russia.
  38. 51st African Studies Association Annual Meeting “Knowledge of Africa: The Next Fifty Years”. November 2008, Chicago, USA.
  39. Special Meeting of the Council on African Studies of Yale University. November 2008, New Haven, USA.
  40. Seventh All-Russia Young Africanists Conference (Key-note speech). November 2008, Moscow, Russia.
  41. “Round table” “Specifics of Contemporary Anthropological Fieldwork in Africa”. April 2009, Moscow, Russia.
  42. Conference “Positioning of Russia and Russian Business in Africa”. April 2009, Moscow, Russia.
  43. Fifth International Conference “Hierarchy and Power in the History of Civilizations”. June 2009, Moscow, Russia.
  44. Conference “The Image of Russia in the Context of the Culture of Tolerance Formation in the Country and Abroad”. November 2009, Moscow, Russia.
  45. The End/s of Anthropology. American Anthropological Association 108th Annual Meeting. December 2009. Philadelphia, USA.
  46. Seminar “Society and Culture”. January 2010, Moscow, Russia.
  47. Special Meeting of the Center of Social Anthropology of the Russian State University for the Humanities. April 2010, Moscow, Russia.
  48. 68th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association. April 2010. Chicago, USA.
  49. 11th Biennial European Association of Social Anthropologists Conference. “Crisis and Imagination”. August 2010. Maynooth, Ireland.
  50. 53rd African Studies Association Annual Meeting. “African Diaspora and Diasporas in Africa”. November 2010, San Francisco, USA.
  51. “Round table” “Inclusion of New Knowledge in Humanitarian and Social School Subjects Programs”. November 2010, Moscow, Russia.
  52. “African Seminar” of the Institute of Asian and African Countries of the Lomonosov Moscow State University. April 2011, Moscow, Russia.
  53. “Round table” “The Content and New Standards of Historical Education”. April 2011, Moscow, Russia.
  54. Guest lecture at Dar es Salaam School of Journalism. April 2011, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
  55. Guest lecture at the Mwalimu Nyerere Memorial Academy. April 2011, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
  56. Guest lecture at the College of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Dodoma. May 2011, Dodoma, Tanzania.
  57. Guest lecture at the Institute of Development Studies of the Mzumbe University. May 2011, Mzumbe, Tanzania.
  58. Guest lecture at the Mozambique-Tanzania Centre for Foreign Relations. May 2011, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
  59. Second International Scientific Congress “Globalistics-2011: Ways to Strategic Stability and the Problem of Global Governance”. May 2011, Moscow, Russia.
  60. 12th Conference of Africanists “Africa in the Changing World Development Paradigm”. May 2011, Moscow, Russia.
  61. Seminar “Society and Culture”. October 2011, Moscow, Russia.
  62. “Round table” “The Birth of Historiography in Ancient and Medieval Societies”. October 2011, Moscow, Russia.
  63. Lecture in the framework of the Archaeology Program Seminar Series in the Department of Anthropology of Harvard University. November 2011, Cambridge, USA.
  64. “Traces, Tidemarks and Legacies”. American Anthropological Association 110th Annual Meeting. November 2011. Montreal, Canada.
  65. International Conference “Studies of African History in Russia and Abroad: Stages, Trends, Prospects”. November 2011. Moscow, Russia.
  66. “Round table” “Cultural Aspects and Legal Practice in the Sphere of Human Rights in Africa”. December 2011, Moscow, Russia.
  67. “Round table” “Holistic View of History of the 20th Century and Problems of Its Teaching”. December 2011, Moscow, Russia.
  68. Conference “Teaching of History and Sociology, and the Contents of Historical Education at Secondary School”. March 2012, Moscow, Russia.
  69. Workshop “Fieldwork in Africa Today: New Options and Challenges”. March 2012, Halle/Saale, Germany.
  70. Academic Conference “Political Anthropology of Traditional and Contemporary Societies”. April 2012, Vladivostok, Russia.
  71. All-Russia Academic Conference “The Far Eastern Time of Russia and the World. Culture, History, Politics”. April 2012, Vladivostok, Russia.
  72. Public Lecture at the School of the Humanities of the Far Eastern Federal University. April 2012, Vladivostok, Russia.
  73. 8th Iberian Congress of African Studies. June 2012, Madrid, Spain.
  74. 12th Biennial European Association of Social Anthropologists Conference “Uncertainty and Disquiet”. July 2012, Paris, France.
  75. Seminar “Society and Culture”. September 2012, Moscow, Russia.
  76. 55th African Studies Association Annual Meeting. «Research Frontiers in the Study of Africa». November – December 2012, Philadelphia, USA.
  77. Seventh Knorozov Readings “Ancient Civilizations of the Old and New Worlds”. February 2013, Moscow, Russia.
  78. “Round Table” “The Results of the 5th BRICS Summit and Their Implications for Africa”. April 2013, Moscow, Russia.
  79.  “Round Table” “African Students in the USSR/Russia: Looking Back to the Past, Studying the Present”. April 2013, Moscow, Russia.
  80. “Round Table” “Russian-Nigerian Relations Yesterday and Today”. June 2013, Moscow, Russia.
  81. International Academic Conference on Political Systems of Early States. June 2013, Xi’an, China.
  82. Guest Lecture at Lehigh University, sponsored by Departments of Sociology and Anthropology, Africana Studies, and Global Studies. September 2013, Bethlehem, USA.
  83. Lecture within Colloquium Series of Department of Anthropology, Pittsburgh University. September 2013, Pittsburgh, USA.
  84. Lecture within African American Studies Fall 2013 Lecture Series, Boston University. October 2013, Boston, USA.
  85. Guest Lecture at Program of African Studies, Northwestern University. October 2013, Evanston, USA.
  86. Guest Lecture at Department of Anthropology, the American Museum of Natural History. October 2013, New York, USA.
  87. “Round Table” “Nigerian-Russian Relations: Past, Present and Future”. November 2013, Moscow, Russia.
  88. “Round Table” “Early Modern Time in World History”. December 2013, Moscow, Russia.
  89. “Round Table” “Easing Ethnic Tensions in Moscow through Cultural Initiatives”. January 2014, Moscow, Russia.
  90. “Round Table” “Cities in Anthropological Studies”. March 2014, Moscow, Russia.
  91. 13th Conference of Africanists “Society and Politics in Africa: Traditional, Transitional and New”. May 2014, Moscow, Russia.
  92. “Round Table” “Ethnic Groups and Ethnic Processes in the Context of Globalization”. June 2014, Moscow, Russia.
  93. Seminar “Society and Culture”. June 2014, Moscow, Russia.
  94. “Round Table” “Searches of Identity in World History and Culture”. June 2014, Yaroslavl, Russia.
  95. 13th Biennial European Association of Social Anthropologists Conference “Collaboration, Intimacy and Revolution – Innovation and Continuity in an Interconnected World”. July – August 2014, Tallinn, Estonia.
  96. World Congress on State Origins and Related Subjects. September 2014, Wigry, Poland.
  97. Meeting of the Institute “Russian Anthropological School” of the Russian State University for the Humanities. September 2014, Moscow, Russia.
  98. “Round Table” “World without Borders and Global Education: A View from Africa”. September 2014, Moscow, Russia.
  99. International Colloquium “Visual Studies of Africa: Memory, History, Identity”. September 2014, Moscow, Russia.
  100. 16th International Congress on Systems and Cybernetics. October, 2014, Ibagué, Colombia.
  101. Conference “At the Threshold of Civilization and Statehood (By Archaeological and Other Evidence)”. November 2014, Moscow, Russia.
  102. Methodological Seminar of Department of Ethnology, School of History of Lomonosov Moscow State University. November 2014, Moscow, Russia.
  103. Conference “Anthropological Fieldwork”. December 2014, Moscow, Russia.
  104. Conference “‘Inventing Tradition’ and Creating ‘Imagined Community’”. December 2014, Moscow, Russia.
  105. All-Russia Conference “Sources on History of Africa and African Diaspora”. March 2016, Yaroslavl, Russia.
  106. “Round table” “‘Splendor of Feudalism.’ Glance from the Outside”. January 2016, Moscow, Russia.
  107. 58th African Studies Association Annual Meeting. “The State and the Study of Africa”. November 2015, San Diego, USA.
  108. International Symposium on the Theories and Methods for the Studies of the Origin of States. November 2015, Shanghai, China.
  109. Guest Lecture at Program of International and Area Studies, Washington University in St. Louis. September 2015, St. Louis, USA.
  110.  “Round table” “African Migration: Influence on International Relations”. June 2015, Moscow, Russia.
  111. “Round table” “African Migration and Global Transformations in the Post-colonial World: Socio-cultural Aspects”. April 2015, Moscow, Russia.
  112. Annual Humanitarian Readings at the Russian State University for the Humanities. April 2015, Moscow, Russia.
  113. First Conference “Power and Violence in Non-Western Societies”. March 2015, Moscow, Russia.
  114. Seminar “Society and Culture”. February 2015, Moscow, Russia.
  115. The International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences Inter-Congress “World Anthropologies and Privatization of Knowledge: Engaging Anthropology in Public”. Panel 352. “Anthropologies and ethnologies in post-communist Europe: Paradigm change or hoax?”. May 2016, Dubrovnik, Croatia.
  116. The International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences Inter-Congress “World Anthropologies and Privatization of Knowledge: Engaging Anthropology in Public”. Panel 327. “Origin of the state and its symbolic perspective”. May 2016, Dubrovnik, Croatia.
  117. International Conference “Non-Western Europe and Africa: Connections in the Past and the Present”. June 2016, Moscow, Russia.
  118. The International Big History Association Third Conference. July 2016, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
  119. 14th Biennial Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists “Anthropological legacies and human futures”. July 2016, Milan, Italy.
  120. Seminar on Doing Anthropological Research Abroad of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. September 2016, Moscow, Russia.
  121. 18th International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences World Congress “World (of) Encounters. The Past, Present and Future of Anthropological Knowledge”. July 2018, Florianópolis, Brazil.
  122. 9th International Conference of School of Philosophy of the National Research University Higher School of Economics “Modes of Thinking, Ways of Speaking”. April 2018, Moscow, Russia.
  123. Conference “‘The Global South’ in the Polycentric World”. April 2018, Moscow, Russia.
  124. Seminar “Homo Sapiens Histroicus”. March 2018, Moscow, Russia.
  125. Seminar “Society and Culture”. February 2018, Moscow, Russia.
  126. International Young Researcher School “Political Anthropology of Archaic and Traditional Societies: Contemporary Approaches”. Lecture “Communality as a Foundation of Socio-Political Tradition in Sub-Saharan Africa”. November – December 2017, Moscow, Russia.
  127. International Young Researcher School “Political Anthropology of Archaic and Traditional Societies: Contemporary Approaches”. Lecture “Homoarchy as a Principle of Scoio-Political Organization”. November – December 2017, Moscow, Russia.
  128. 60th African Studies Association Annual Meeting. “Institutions: Creativity and Resilience in Africa”. November 2017, Chicago, USA.
  129. 14th Conference of Africanists “Africa and Africans in National, Regional and Global Dimensions.” October 2017, Moscow, Russia.
  130. 12th Congress of Anthropologists and Ethnologists of Russia. July 2017, Izhevsk, Russia.
  131. International Conference “Warfare, Exploitation, Social Inequality and Peace Studies-2017”. May 2017, Seville, Spain.
  132. Guest Lecture at Department of Anthropology, University of Alabama. April 2017, Tuscaloosa, USA.
  133. 17th Annual Africa Conference. March – April 2017, Austin, USA.
  134. “Humanities Readings” Seminar of the History and Philology Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences. December 2016, Moscow, Russia.
  135. Africa: Moving the Boundaries. 39th African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific Annual Conference. December 2016, Perth, Australia.
  136. “Round table” “Topical Problems of Historical Studies”. November 2016, Kolomna, Russia.
  137. “Evidence. Accident. Discovery”. American Anthropological Association 115th Annual Meeting. November 2016, Minneapolis, USA.
  138. 21st European Maya Conference “Hierarchy and Power in the Maya World”. October 2016, Moscow, Russia.
  139. The International Big History Association Forth Conference “Big History, Big Future: A Cosmic Perspective”. July 2018, Villanova, USA.
  140. “Transitions”. 2023 American Anthropological Association / Canadian Anthropology Society Annual Meeting. November 2023, Toronto, Canada.
  141. Theoretical Seminar “Prospects of the System Approach in the Humanities and Social Sciences”. October 2023, Vladivostok, Russia (online).
  142. 19th International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences – World Anthropological Union (IUAES – WAU) World Anthropology Congress 2023 “Marginalities, Uncertainties, and World Anthropologies: Enlivening Past and Envisioning Future”. October 2023, New Delhi, India.
  143. 15th Congress of the Association of Anthropologists and Ethnologists of Russia. June 2023, St. Petersburg, Russia.
  144. Post-Colonial Africa: Historical and Contemporary Realities. The Toyin Falola @ 70 Conference. May 2023, Nairobi, Kenya.
  145. 32nd International Congress on Source Studies and Historiography of Asia and Africa: Russia and the East. Сommemorating 300th anniversary of Saint-Petersburg State University. April 2023, St. Petersburg, Russia.
  146. School “Anthropology and History: A View of the Individual and Society”. April 2023, Moscow, Russia (online).
  147. Annual Conference “Expeditions and Field Trips”. March 2023, Moscow, Russia.
  148. Seminar “Society and Culture”. March 2023, Moscow, Russia.
  149.  “African Urbanities: Mobility, Creativity, and Challenges”. 65th African Studies Association Annual Meeting. November 2022, Philadelphia, USA.
  150. Guest Lecture at the Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia. November 2022, Athens, USA.
  151. The International Academic Forum in China 2022 “Civilizations Amid Profound Changes: China and the World”. August 2022, Beijing, China, & online.
  152. All-Russia Academic Conference “Russia – Africa: From Oral History to Post-colonial Narrative”. May 2022, Yaroslavl, Russia.
  153. “Round Table” “Structures of longue durée”. March 2022, Moscow, Russia (online).
  154. International Conference “Leadership and Power in Africa in the Past and the Present: Studies in Russia, Tanzania and Beyond”. March 2022, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
  155. 48th Annual Conference of the Archaeological Society of South Carolina (ASSC). February 2022, Columbia, USA.
  156. Meeting of the Bureau of the Russian Academy of Sciences Branch of History and Philology. February 2022, Moscow, Russia.
  157. Seminar “Society and Culture”. December 2021, Moscow, Russia (online).
  158. All-Russia Academic Conference with International Participants “International (Dis)order: Historical, Political, Economic, Humanitarian, and Sociocultural Aspects”. November 2021, Samara, Russia (online).
  159. “Truth and Responsibility”. American Anthropological Association 2021 Annual Meeting. November 2021, Baltimore, USA, & online.
  160. XIV Congress of Anthropologists and Ethnologists of Russia. July 2021, Tomsk, Russia (online).
  161. 10th Session “Anthropology and Socio-Humanitarian Knowledge” of the Inter-University Academic Club “21st Century” of the Faculty of Political Science of the Lomonosov Moscow State University. June 2021, Moscow, Russia (online).
  162. 15th International Conference of Africanists “Destinies of Africa in the Modern World”. May 2021, Moscow, Russia (online).
  163. Theoretical Workshop of the Department of International Relations of the Oriental Institute – School of Regional and International Studies, Far Eastern Federal University. May 2021, Vladivostok, Russia (online).
  164. VII Zverev International Biennial Conference on American Studies “Colonial and Postcolonial Discourses in American Literature, Culture, and Politics: Pro et Contra”. May 2021, Moscow, Russia.
  165. Center of Social Anthropology of the Russian State University for the Humanities Annual Meeting “Our Fieldwork Last Year”. April 2021, Moscow, Russia.
  166. Guest lecture at the Institute of International Relations and World History of the Lobachevsky Nizhny Novgorod State University “Representations of Slavery and the Civil War of 1861–65 in the US North and South: Dissimilarities of Historical Discourses in Contemporary Cultural and Political Context”. April 2021, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia (online).
  167. Guest lecture at the Institute of International Relations and World History of the Lobachevsky Nizhny Novgorod State University “Historical Memory as a Factor of Interaction between African Americans and Contemporary Migrants from Africa to the USA”. April 2021, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia (online).
  168. 2021 Humanitarian Readings of the Russian State University for the Humanities. April 2021, Moscow, Russia.
  169. Seminar of the National Research University Higher School of Economics “Visual Methods of Studying the Human in the Context of Culture”. March 2021, Moscow, Russia (online).
  170. American Seminar of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology, the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, and the St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences. January 2021, Moscow – St. Petersburg, Russia (online).
  171. Seminar “Society and Culture”. December 2020, Moscow, Russia (online).
  172.  “The Hour of Decision: Power, Persistence, Purpose, and Possibility in African Studies”. 63rd African Studies Association Annual Meeting. November, 2020, Washington, DC, USA (online).
  173. 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)”. November 2020, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (online).
  174. Seminar “Homo Sapiens Histroicus”. October 2020, Moscow, Russia (online).
  175. “Race, Racism, Antiracism, Humanity” International Conference. October 2020, Philadelphia, USA (online).
  176. 16th Biennial Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists “New Anthropological Horizons in and beyond Europe”. July 2020, Lisbon, Portugal (online).
  177. All-Russia Conference “Africa: Postcolonial Discourse”. June 2020, Yaroslavl, Russia (online).
  178. Round Table “Artefacts in the Museum: Collecting, Keeping, Studying, Representing”. May 2020, Moscow, Russia (online).
  179. Africa’s Past, Present and Future (Commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the “Year of Africa”). February 2020, Moscow, Russia.
  180. “The Global World and Africa: The World as We See It”. Academic Session on the Occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. December 2019, Moscow, Russia.
  181. Distinguished Lecture at the Department of Ethnology of the Lomonosov Moscow State University on the occasion of the Department’s 80th anniversary. December 2019, Moscow, Russia.
  182. American Anthropological Association and Canadian Anthropology Society Annual Meeting. November 2019, Vancouver, Canada.
  183. Conference “Rethinking the Middle Ages, or Audit of the Russia Medieval Studies”. September 2019, Moscow, Russia.
  184. The International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences Inter-Congress “World Solidarities”. August 2019, Poznan, Poland.
  185. “Round Table” “Contemporary African Religiosity”. June 2019, Moscow, Russia.
  186. Warfare, Environment, Social Inequality, and Pro-Sociability Biennial Conference. May 2019, Seville, Spain.
  187. VI Zverev International Biennial Conference on American Studies “Collective Memory: Power of the Past in Sociocultural Life of America”. May 2019, Moscow, Russia.
  188. “Expeditions and Innovations”. Center of Social Anthropology of the Russian State University for the Humanities Annual Conference. March 2019, Moscow, Russia.
  189. First International Social Scientists’ Conference “State-Building in Africa: Prospects and Challenges”. Keynote speech. March 2019, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
  190. First International Social Scientists’ Conference “State-Building in Africa: Prospects and Challenges”. Panel paper. March 2019, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
  191. Seminar of the African Club of the Institute of Asian and African Studies of the Lomonosov Moscow State University. February 2019, Moscow, Russia.
  192. Seminar “Society and Culture”. February 2019, Moscow, Russia.
  193. 61st African Studies Association Annual Meeting. “Energies: Power, Creativity and Afro-Futures”. November-December 2018, Atlanta, USA.
  194. Guest lecture at the Department of Sociology, Criminology, and Anthropology of Winthrop University. November 2018, Rock Hill, USA.
  195. “Change in the Anthropological Imagination”. American Anthropological Association 117th Annual Meeting. November 2018, San Jose, USA.
  196. Guest lecture at Busitema University. October 2018, Busitema, Uganda.
  197. Colloque internationale “Itineraires des élites africaines dans le monde. Réseaux et transferts entre diasporas et ‘petites sociétés’”. Septembre 2018, Bucarest, Romanie.
  198. International Conference “Historical Narrative: Past, Present, Future”. September 2018, Moscow, Russia.
  199. 15th Biennial Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists “Staying – Moving – Settling”. August 2018, Stockholm, Sweden.
  200. International Conference “Diversity of Cultures: The Experience of Russia and the Lebantine East”. June – July 2004, Bhamdoun, Lebanon.
  201. Third International Conference “Hierarchy and Power in the History of Civilizations”. June 2004, Moscow, Russia.
  202. Meeting of the Academic Council of the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. April 2004, Moscow, Russia.
  203. Seminar “Society and Culture”. February 2004, Moscow, Russia.
  204. Seminar “Archaic Societies in the Civilizations Theory Context”. November 2003, Moscow, Russia.
  205. Special session of the Faculty of Health Studies of the University of Ljubljana. November 2003, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
  206. Special session of the Sociology Department of the University of Ljubljana. November 2003, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
  207. Seminar “Logical-and-Mathematical Modeling of Social Evolutionary Processes”. June 2003, Moscow, Russia.
  208. Special Meeting of the Center of Social Anthropology of the Russian State University for the Humanities. June 2003, Moscow, Russia.
  209. Special session of the Institute for African Research and Studies, University of Cairo. May 2003, Cairo, Egypt.
  210. The 7th Biennial European Association of Social Anthropologists Conference. Engaging the World. August 2002, Copenhagen, Denmark.
  211. Special Meeting of the Center of Social Anthropology of the Russian State University for the Humanities. April 2002, Moscow, Russia.
  212. Special Meeting of the Department of History of the University of Dar es Salaam. March 2002, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
  213. Special Meeting of the School of Arts and Social Sciences of the University of Dar es Salaam. March 2002, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
  214. International Conference “Africa: Societies, Cultures, Languages (Africa in Russia, Russia in Africa)”. May 2001, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
  215. Nigeria-Russian Federation Dialogue on Advancing Nigeria-Russian Bilateral Relations in the 21st Century. March 2001, Lagos, Nigeria.
  216. International Conference “Africa: Societies, Cultures, Languages”. May 2000, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
  217. Special Meeting of the Anthropology Department of the California State University-Fullerton. February 2000, Fullerton, CA, USA.
  218. Conference “Africa: Societies, Cultures, Languages”. May 1999, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
  219. Annual Meeting of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research. February 1999, Santa Fe, NM, USA.
  220. Seminar “Traditions and Innovations in Social Anthropology”. November 1998, Moscow, Russia.
  221. The 5th Biennial European Association of Social Anthropologists Conference. The Politics of Anthropology: Conditions for Thought and Practice. September 1998, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
  222. International Conference “Teaching African History: Problems and Approaches”. June 1998, Moscow, Russia.
  223. The Seventh All-Russia Conference of Africanists “Africa in a Changing World”. Section 6. Ethnic and Socio-Cultural Problems. Subsection 6B. Socio-Cultural Problems. October 1997, Moscow, Russia.
  224. International Conference “Urbanization in the Formation of the Socio-Cultural Space of the Historical Development”. October 1997, Moscow, Russia.
  225. All-Russia Academic Conference “Social Anthropology at the Threshold of the 21st Century”. November 1997, Moscow, Russia.
  226. International Conference “Africa: Societies, Cultures, Languages”. May 1998, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
  227. Satellite Meeting “Sociobiology of Ritual and Group Identity: A Homology of Animal and Human Behaviour and Concepts of Humans” and “Behaviour Patterns in the Cultures of the East and the West: Interdisciplinary Approach”. Section 6. “Sociocultural Evolution”. Panel 1. “Models of Social Evolution: Unilineal, Multilineal, Nonlineal”. June 1998, Moscow, Russia.
  228. Satellite Meeting “Sociobiology of Ritual and Group Identity: A Homology of Animal and Human Behaviour and Concepts of Humans” and “Behaviour Patterns in the Cultures of the East and the West: Interdisciplinary Approach”. Section 6. “Sociocultural Evolution”. Panel 3. “Pre-colonial Tropical African Anthropology: Genesis of Complex Political Organization”. June 1998, Moscow, Russia.
  229. The Seventh All-Russia Conference of Africanists “Africa in a Changing World”. Section 5. History. October 1997, Moscow, Russia.
  230. International Academic Session “Africa: The Culture and the Society. Problems of Theory and Methodology.” May 1995, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
  231. Conference “Transitional Epochs in History: Russia and the West.” September 1995, Saratov, Russia.
  232. Seminar “Alternatives to the State in Universal History.” December 1995, Moscow, Russia.
  233. Meeting of the Center for Civilizational Studies of the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. February 1996, Moscow, Russia.
  234. International Conference “Gnoseological Problems of History.” March 1996, Moscow, Russia.
  235. Seminar “Alternatives to the State in Universal History.” April 1996, Moscow, Russia.
  236. Interregional Conference “Cultural Dialogue of the City in Time and Space of Historical Development.” April 1996, Moscow, Russia.
  237. International Conference “Africa: Societies, Cultures, Languages”. May 1996, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
  238. All-Russia Conference of the USIA alumni “The Role of Scholars in Building Civil Society.” May 1996, Moscow, Russia.
  239. International Conference “Africa: Societies, Cultures, Languages”. May 1997, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
  240. International Symposium “Africa and the Challenges of the Twenty First Century.” May 1997, Cairo, Egypt.
  241. Special Joint Session of Departments of Geography and Anthropology of the Institute for African Research and Studies, University of Cairo. June 1997, Cairo, Egypt.
  242. Conference “The City and Arts, the City in Arts.” February 1995, Moscow, Russia.
  243. World Archaeological Congress - 3. December 1994, New Delhi, India.
  244. 6th Conference of Africanists. November 1994, Moscow, Russia.
  245. Special Meeting of the Anthropology Department of the Northwestern University. May 1994, Evanston, IL, USA.
  246. Special Meeting of the Program of African Studies of the Northwestern University. May 1994, Evanston, IL, USA.
  247. Special Meeting of the Department of Political Science of the State University of New York, College at Geneseo. April 1994, Geneseo, NY, USA.
  248. 34th Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Anthropological Association. April 1994, Geneseo, NY, USA.
  249. Special Meeting of the Department of History of the Chicago State University. January 1994, Chicago, IL, USA.
  250. Meeting of the Northwestern University Club. January 1994, Evanston, IL, USA.
  251. Meeting of the Specialized Historical Learning Council of the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. November 1993, Moscow, Russia.
  252. Meeting of the Learning Council of the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. May 1993, Moscow, Russia.
  253. Conference “The City as a Social-and-Cultural Phenomenon of the Historical Process.” April 1993, Moscow, Russia.
  254. Inter-Institute Academic Seminar “Genesis and Evolution of the Historical Subject.” October 1992, Moscow, Russia.
  255. International Theoretical Seminar “The Nature and the Culture.” May 1992. Lutsk, Ukraine.
  256. Academic Session “African Cultures in the Universal Civilizational Process.” May 1992, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
  257. Meeting of the Center for Civilizational Studies of the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. March 1992, Moscow, Russia.
  258. Colloquium “Space and Time in Archaic Cultures.” October 1991, Zvenigorod, USSR.
  259. Academic Session “The Tribe and the State in Africa.” May 1991, Leningrad, USSR.
  260. 16th Academic Session on Historiography and Historical Sources’ Studies of Foreign Asia and Africa. April 1991, Leningrad, USSR.
  261. Inter-Institute Academic Seminar “Genesis and Evolution of the Historical Subject.” January 1991, Moscow, USSR.
  262. Colloquium “Problems of the Third World’s Development: Civilizational and Formational Aspects.” December 1990, Moscow, USSR.
  263. All-Union Conference “Trends and Peculiarities of the Historical Process in Asia, Africa, and Latin America: Stereotypes and New Approaches).” November 1990, Moscow, USSR.
  264. International Conference “Comparative History of Civilizations (Problems of Theory, Methodology, History).” October 1990, Moscow, USSR.
  265. 2nd Nigerian Readings. October 1990, Moscow, USSR.
  266. 5th All-Union Conference of Africanists. November 1989, Moscow, USSR.
  267. Meeting of the Group for Regional Studies of the Institute for African Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. October 1989, Moscow, USSR.
  268. Students’ Conference of the School of History of the Moscow State University “Problems of World History and Culture.” May 1989, Moscow, USSR.
  269. All-Union Students’ Conference “Actual Problems of Studying History in Higher and Secondary School.” March 1989, Moscow, USSR.

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