Civilizational Models of Politogenesis

The volume represents an attempt of a complex study of the politogenetic processes in their regional and temporary variety. The authors hope that their survey can and should also promote a better understanding of the general tendencies and mechanisms of cultural and sociopolitical evolution, of the interrelation and interaction of cultural, social, and political formats in the human society. The authors believe that the use of principles and methods of the civilizational approach in politogenetic studies, on the one hand, and the inclusion of the politogenesis into the problem area of civilizations studies, on the other hand, creates the effect of novelty in terms of both anthropology and civilizations studies, enriches their scientific toolkit and expands heuristic limits.

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Professors Dmitri M. Bondarenko and Andrey V. Korotayev are Moscow-based social anthropologists and historians. Dmitri is Vice Director for Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute for African Studies while Andrey is the Chair of "The Anthropology of the East" Program at the Russian State University for the Humanities.