Sergey Alymov
Biographic Data
| ID | 814103 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sergey Alymov |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sergey |
| FAMILY NAME | Alymov |
| SIGNATURE | ALYMOV S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Russian Academy of Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9988-9556 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Theory of Civilizations and the Social-Biological Problem in Soviet Philosophy of History
The article discusses the development of the philosophy of history, i.e. the most general ideas about history and its patterns in the USSR in the 1920s — 1980s. It considers the debates on history that unfolded around O. Spengler's civilizational approach and the criticism of mechanism in the 1920s, the philosophy of history of V. F. Asmus, the criticism of the civilizational approach by historians and philosophers I. S. Kon and E. S. Markaryan i…
Forum 64
This "Forum" considers attitudes towards theories and theoretical knowledge among ethnologists and anthropologists. Answering questions from the forum organisers, its participants discuss the need for a common "grand theory" that would unite the entire anthropological community, the tense relationship between theory and description, the causes, manifestations and effects of theory fatigue - and also the need for it, its shortage - and overproduct…
How Moscow did not become a world center of marxist anthropology
The article analyzes theoretical and methodological discussions in Russian ethnography and historiography of the 1960s. The focus is on the fate of the historian L.V. Danilova and the collection, edited by her, “Problems of the History of Pre-Capitalist Societies” (1968), one of the brightest achievements of the non-dogmatic Marxism of the thaw era. On the basis of new archival materials, it reconstructs the project of the multi-volume publicatio…
A critical paradigm for the histories of anthropology
The article presents a discussion focused on Regna Darnell's concepts of critical paradigm and transportable knowledge in relation to contemporary studies in history of anthropology, put forward in her essay based on the text written for the keynote address at EASA's History of Anthropology Network and reproduced in BEROSE International Encyclopaedia of the Histories of Anthropology. Assessing the changing disciplinary scene of humanities and soc…
The “efforts of ours were not in vain
In an interview to S.S. Alymov, the ethnographer and historian M.A. Chlenov, honorary vice-president of the World Jewish Congress, talks about his biography, academic career and work at the Institute of Ethnography in the 1960s-90s. He reflects on his fieldwork in Indonesia and the Russian North, as well as his research among the Nenets and Inuit, and discusses his work in the areas of kinship studies, Inuit studies, and Jewish studies, further r…
We “did not live by work alone
In an interview to S.S. Alymov, the ethnographer and philologist N.S. Polishchuk talks about her biography, academic career and work at the Institute of Ethnography in the 1960s-90s. The conversation covers topics such as the development of studies in the area of ethnography of the city and workers, the activities of the journal “Soviet Ethnography”, and the international contacts of Soviet ethnographers. N.S. Polishchuk further shares interestin…
Cold War Anthropology From Both Sides of the Iron Curtain
This paper seeks to widen the understanding of Cold War anthropology by considering the history of contacts and dialogue between Soviet and American anthropologists from 1945 to 1964. Focusing mainly on the Soviet side, it argues that the isolation of Soviet ethnography was never complete, although it reached a highpoint during late Stalinism. The paper considers the resuming of contacts between US and USSR scholars in the second half of the 1950…
Forgetting ethnos and nation
Институт этнологии и антропологии им.Н
On Persons and Elementals
The article considers the ideas of personality, humanity, and society in the works of four prominent Russian philosophers and sociologists: G. Batishchev (1932–1990), A. Zinovyev (1922–2006), Yu. Levada (1930–2006), and M. Mamardashvili (1930–1990). The main argument of the article is that the social philosophy of these thinkers evolved along similar lines, which the author describes as an evolution from Marxist humanism to the idea of the societ…
Life Histories of Etnos Theory in Russia and Beyond
Life Histories of Etnos Theory in Russia and Beyond makes a powerful argument for reconsidering the importance of etnos in our understanding of ethnicity and national identity across Eurasia. The collection brings to life a rich archive of previously unpublished letters, fieldnotes, and photographic collections of the theory’s early proponents.
Etnos Thinking in the Long Twentieth Century
This chapter contextualizes the first appearance of ‘etnos’ as a principal object of research of ethnography as a discipline. It explores etnos from the end of the nineteenth century, right through to the present day. Here, etnos is examined in relation to its connections to both the development of Biosocial Science in Russia and to Soviet Marxism, and alongside wider concepts
Ukrainian Roots of the Theory of Etnos
The genealogy of etnos can be traced back, firstly, to the Saint-Petersburg anthropologists Eduard Petri and Dmitrii Koropchevskii and, secondly, to the ideology of Ukrainian national movement. The chapter examines the making of Fedor Volkov and Nikolai Mogilanskii’s ideas and in particular their solidarity with Southern Russian independence movements in what is now Ukraine. The chapter argues that the political engagement of these scholars, and …
Grounding Etnos Theory
This is a highly contextualized essay on the history of etnos theory from roughly the 18th century to the 21st century. The introduction demonstrates how various concepts of identity arose from the concrete experiences that specific ethnographers had with the people who hosted them, and that these sometimes-competing accounts of etnos, minzu, and ethnie were underwritten by concrete experiences. Historically, the introduction would touch on the f…
Mapping Etnos
This chapter traces the legacy of Feodor Volkov’s students in their investigations of culture and identity across Eurasia. Volkov trained several prominent ethnographers, such as Sergei Rudenko and Sergei Shirokogoroff, who travelled to very different fields in Bashkiria and Manchuria. This activity was institutionalized in the Commission for ethnographic mapping of the Russian Geographical society which engaged Volkov and his students. The chapt…
R ussia, Anthropology in
The entry provides a description of the main periods in the history of Russian anthropology from the early eighteenth century to the present time, with special attention to the Soviet and post‐Soviet periods, its institutional structure, current subdivisions into subdisciplines and research fields, thematic differentiation, area specializations, and current development trends
Activating the ‘Human Factor’
examines the ideas of Soviet philosophers and economists of the 1970s and 80s about personality / Soviet man. the author analyses the views of official philosophers of the conservative and liberal camps on the nature of developed socialism. the reformers (a. p. Butenko, a. S. tsipko) stressed the growth of the significance of the individual in a modern society and economy, connecting the 'humanisation' of society with a growth in consumption and …
Aktivizatsiya “chelovecheskogo faktora”
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R ussia, Anthropology in
The entry provides a description of the main periods in the history of Russian anthropology from the early eighteenth century to the present time, with special attention to the Soviet and post‐Soviet periods, its institutional structure, current subdivisions into subdisciplines and research fields, thematic differentiation, area specializations, and current development trends
Activating the ‘Human Factor’
examines the ideas of Soviet philosophers and economists of the 1970s and 80s about personality / Soviet man. the author analyses the views of official philosophers of the conservative and liberal camps on the nature of developed socialism. the reformers (a. p. Butenko, a. S. tsipko) stressed the growth of the significance of the individual in a modern society and economy, connecting the 'humanisation' of society with a growth in consumption and …
Aktivizatsiya “chelovecheskogo faktora”
А н т р
Life Histories of Etnos Theory in Russia and Beyond
Life Histories of Etnos Theory in Russia and Beyond makes a powerful argument for reconsidering the importance of etnos in our understanding of ethnicity and national identity across Eurasia. The collection brings to life a rich archive of previously unpublished letters, fieldnotes, and photographic collections of the theory’s early proponents.
Etnos Thinking in the Long Twentieth Century
This chapter contextualizes the first appearance of ‘etnos’ as a principal object of research of ethnography as a discipline. It explores etnos from the end of the nineteenth century, right through to the present day. Here, etnos is examined in relation to its connections to both the development of Biosocial Science in Russia and to Soviet Marxism, and alongside wider concepts
Ukrainian Roots of the Theory of Etnos
The genealogy of etnos can be traced back, firstly, to the Saint-Petersburg anthropologists Eduard Petri and Dmitrii Koropchevskii and, secondly, to the ideology of Ukrainian national movement. The chapter examines the making of Fedor Volkov and Nikolai Mogilanskii’s ideas and in particular their solidarity with Southern Russian independence movements in what is now Ukraine. The chapter argues that the political engagement of these scholars, and …
Grounding Etnos Theory
This is a highly contextualized essay on the history of etnos theory from roughly the 18th century to the 21st century. The introduction demonstrates how various concepts of identity arose from the concrete experiences that specific ethnographers had with the people who hosted them, and that these sometimes-competing accounts of etnos, minzu, and ethnie were underwritten by concrete experiences. Historically, the introduction would touch on the f…
Mapping Etnos
This chapter traces the legacy of Feodor Volkov’s students in their investigations of culture and identity across Eurasia. Volkov trained several prominent ethnographers, such as Sergei Rudenko and Sergei Shirokogoroff, who travelled to very different fields in Bashkiria and Manchuria. This activity was institutionalized in the Commission for ethnographic mapping of the Russian Geographical society which engaged Volkov and his students. The chapt…
On Persons and Elementals
The article considers the ideas of personality, humanity, and society in the works of four prominent Russian philosophers and sociologists: G. Batishchev (1932–1990), A. Zinovyev (1922–2006), Yu. Levada (1930–2006), and M. Mamardashvili (1930–1990). The main argument of the article is that the social philosophy of these thinkers evolved along similar lines, which the author describes as an evolution from Marxist humanism to the idea of the societ…
Forgetting ethnos and nation
Институт этнологии и антропологии им.Н
Cold War Anthropology From Both Sides of the Iron Curtain
This paper seeks to widen the understanding of Cold War anthropology by considering the history of contacts and dialogue between Soviet and American anthropologists from 1945 to 1964. Focusing mainly on the Soviet side, it argues that the isolation of Soviet ethnography was never complete, although it reached a highpoint during late Stalinism. The paper considers the resuming of contacts between US and USSR scholars in the second half of the 1950…
A critical paradigm for the histories of anthropology
The article presents a discussion focused on Regna Darnell's concepts of critical paradigm and transportable knowledge in relation to contemporary studies in history of anthropology, put forward in her essay based on the text written for the keynote address at EASA's History of Anthropology Network and reproduced in BEROSE International Encyclopaedia of the Histories of Anthropology. Assessing the changing disciplinary scene of humanities and soc…
The “efforts of ours were not in vain
In an interview to S.S. Alymov, the ethnographer and historian M.A. Chlenov, honorary vice-president of the World Jewish Congress, talks about his biography, academic career and work at the Institute of Ethnography in the 1960s-90s. He reflects on his fieldwork in Indonesia and the Russian North, as well as his research among the Nenets and Inuit, and discusses his work in the areas of kinship studies, Inuit studies, and Jewish studies, further r…
We “did not live by work alone
In an interview to S.S. Alymov, the ethnographer and philologist N.S. Polishchuk talks about her biography, academic career and work at the Institute of Ethnography in the 1960s-90s. The conversation covers topics such as the development of studies in the area of ethnography of the city and workers, the activities of the journal “Soviet Ethnography”, and the international contacts of Soviet ethnographers. N.S. Polishchuk further shares interestin…
How Moscow did not become a world center of marxist anthropology
The article analyzes theoretical and methodological discussions in Russian ethnography and historiography of the 1960s. The focus is on the fate of the historian L.V. Danilova and the collection, edited by her, “Problems of the History of Pre-Capitalist Societies” (1968), one of the brightest achievements of the non-dogmatic Marxism of the thaw era. On the basis of new archival materials, it reconstructs the project of the multi-volume publicatio…
Forum 64
This "Forum" considers attitudes towards theories and theoretical knowledge among ethnologists and anthropologists. Answering questions from the forum organisers, its participants discuss the need for a common "grand theory" that would unite the entire anthropological community, the tense relationship between theory and description, the causes, manifestations and effects of theory fatigue - and also the need for it, its shortage - and overproduct…
Theory of Civilizations and the Social-Biological Problem in Soviet Philosophy of History
The article discusses the development of the philosophy of history, i.e. the most general ideas about history and its patterns in the USSR in the 1920s — 1980s. It considers the debates on history that unfolded around O. Spengler's civilizational approach and the criticism of mechanism in the 1920s, the philosophy of history of V. F. Asmus, the criticism of the civilizational approach by historians and philosophers I. S. Kon and E. S. Markaryan i…
Sociology (9 works) · Soviet and Russian History (9 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture (3 works)