Ideas of Alexei Nikishenkov about the Course of “Primitive Society”: Big Problems or Problems of Big Value?

• Main Author: Туторский, Андрей Владимирович
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Russian
• Published: МГУ имени М.В.Ломоносова (Lomonosov Moscow State University) 2016
• Subjects: prehistory; simple societies; contemporary tribes; teaching anthropology; tribal life; prehistory as epistemology; первобытность; теория первобытности; первобытность как эпистемология; преподавание антропологии; социальная антропология; Kung; inuit
• Online Access: http://www.historystudies.msu.ru/ojs2/index.php/ISIS/article/view/66

Alexei Nikishenkov started teaching the Prehistory course in 1986. It was quite clear to him that the prehistoric societies covered this course were diverse and not homogenous. Nikishenkov diverged from the approach presented in the three-volume book “The History of the Primitive Society” edited by...