National Research University Higher School of Economics, St Petersburg
Department of History
MA Usable Pasts: Applied and Interdisciplinary History
Historical Textual Criticism: 4 ECTS, 152 hours
Dr Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov
Course type: compulsory, key course
The prerequisites for this course include introductory-level familiarity with critical and social
theory. The course is designed to more thoroughly elaborate what is covered in the related
introductory course, “Primarily Sources and Information Resources for Historical Research”.
Russian Summary/Аннотация
Курс представляет собой введение в текстуальную критику как историческую
методологию. В нем рассматривается широкий спектр методологических стратегий,
многие из которых были выработаны в результате лингвистического поворота в
исторических науках и в качестве реакций на вызов, брошенный гуманитарному знанию
постмодернизмом. В задачи курса входит развитие у его слушателей концептуальных и
критических навыков работы с текстами, анализа явных и имплицитных допущений,
сделанных в данном тексте, умения полемизировать с их авторами, подвергать
сомнению устоявшиеся познавательные процедуры и вырабатывать альтернативные
подходы.
Abstract
This course is to ground students in forms of critical analysis of texts as historical sources. It uses a
wide range of examples of historical work that draws on both different textual material and
different methodological strategies. The course views texts as complex and often ambiguous
phenomena, as having lifelines and biographies that are socially embedded and situated. Materials
of the course reflect on a variety of methodologies of critical analysis that have emerged after
linguistic turn and in reaction to the postmodern challenge of the late twentieth century.
The focus of the course is equally theoretical and empirical. A large part of the course is designed
to incorporate the “learning-by-doing” principle, and therefore maintain a practical focus of
theoretical criticism. Students will learn about the interplay between the form and content of texts,
as well as about the constructions which build narratives. The workload involves mandatory
participation in and preparation for in-class discussions and writing assignments of original essays.
Learning Objectives of this course are to give students experience in hands-on exploration of
practices of textual analysis, critique and comparison, as well as writing methodology. The course’s
learning outcomes are abilities in reading and writing conceptually and critically, unpacking given
texts’ both explicit and implicit assumptions, understanding, and debating, their authors’ premises
as well as procedures of knowledge.
Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of the course students will be examined in:
• knowledge of how to analyze key features of text and narrative as historical sources, including
the issues surrounding texts’ authorship and edition, and its status as original or copy.
• ability to contextualize historical sources, characterize different texts and narratives, and apply
various approaches to the textual analysis
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• understanding theoretical and methodological issues in the analysis of texts and narrative theory,
such as fictionality, narrative instances, focalization, plot, discourse, and their implications to
historical research
• learned skills of historical analysis of texts in practice of research
The courses learning outcomes include the list of competences detailed below in the programme
Methods of Instruction
The course consists of both lectures and seminars. Seminars will focus on marked* key readings for each
of the themes (see curriculum below)
Grading System:
- seminar participation (15%)
- class assignments (35%)
- take home final essay exam (50%)
- late assignments will be marked down by 10% of the mark per day
- if you plagiarize, you fail.
Guidelines for Knowledge Assessment
Course Plan
№
Themes
Total Hours
Academic/Contact Hours
Lectures
Seminars
Independent
Work
1.
Epistemic anxieties in text
and archive
14
2
4
8
2.
The critique of political
economy
11
2
2
7
3.
Metahistory and
deconstruction
12
2
2
8
4.
Orientalism
11
2
2
7
5.
Empire and information
12
4
8
6.
The inquisitor
11
2
2
7
7.
Episteme
11
2
2
7
8.
Facts and scientific texts
12
4
8
2
9.
The cultural biography of
things
11
2
2
7
10.
Time and narrative
11
2
2
7
11.
Event and narrative
12
4
8
12.
Performativity
11
2
2
7
13.
Copies nd originals
14
2
2
8
152
20
36
96
In sum:
Curriculum (by theme)
1. Epistemic anxieties in text and archive
*Stoler, Ann Laura. Along the archival grain: epistemic anxieties and colonial common sense, Princeton,
NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009
*Verdery, Ketherine. Secrets and Truths: Ethnography in the Archive of Romania’s Secret Police,
Budapest: Central European University Press, 2012.
*Spivak, Gayatri Chakavorty. Can the Subaltern Speak? // Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory /
eds. Partik Williams, and Laura Chrisman. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. P. 66111.
*Burke, Peter. New perspectives on historical writing, University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University
Press, 2001.
Epstain, Michail N. Scriptorics: an introduction to the anthropology and personology of writing //
Epstain, Michail N. The Transformative Humanities: A Manifesto London: Bloomsbury, 2012. P.
117-132.
Deleuze, Gilles, & Felix Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, 1987.
Dirks, Nicholas B. Autobiography of an archive: a scholar’s passage to India, New York: Columbia
University Press, 2015.
Cohn, Bernard S. An Anthropologist among the Historians and Other Essays, Delhi and New York:
Oxford University Press, 1987.
Clifford, James. The Predicament of Culture, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988. (Ch.
“Identity in Mashpee”)
2. The critique of political economy
*Thompson, E. P. The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Eighteenth Century // Past &
Present. 1971. №. 50. P. 76-136.
*Davis, Natalie Zemon. The Rites of Violence: Religious Riot in Sixteenth-Century France // Past &
Present. 1973. Vol. 59, №. 1. P. 51-91.
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Thompson, Edward Palmer. The Making of the English Working Class, London: Victor Gollancz,
1963.
Hardt, Michael, & Antonio Negri. Multitude: war and democracy in the age of Empire, New York:
The Penguin Press, 2004.
Baudrillard, Jean. For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign, trans. Translated with an
Introduction by Charles Levin, St. Louis: Telos Press, 1981.
Marx, Karl. A contribution to the critique of political economy, New York: International
Publishers, 1970.
Taussig, Michael. The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America, Chapel Hill, N.C.:
University of North Carolina Press, 1980.
Guha, Ranajit. Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India, Delhi: Oxford, 1983.
3. Metahistory and deconstruction
*White, Hayden V. Metahistory: the historical imagination in nineteenth-century Europe, Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1973.
*Lyotard, Jean-Francois. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, Minneapolis: University of
Minnesota Press, 1984
*Clark, Elizabeth A. History, theory, text: historians and the linguistic turn, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard
University Press, 2004.
*Koselleck, Reinhart. Futures past: on the semantics of historical time, New York: Columbia University
Press, 2004.
Mauss, Marcel. The gift: forms and function of exchange in primitive societies, London: Routledge and
Keagan Poul, 1990.
Derrida, Jaques. Given Time: 1, Counterfeit Money, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1992.
Bracken, Christopher. The Potlatch Papers: A Colonial Case History, Chicago: The University of Chicago
Press, 1997
Gellner, Ernest. The Soviet and the Savage // Current Anthropology. 1975. Vol. 10, №. 4. P. 595-617.
Kukulin I. V. From history as language to the language of history: the notes on “The Target”
movie // Vladimir Sorokin’s Languages: Mediality, Interculturality, Translation (Slavica
Bergensia 11), eds. T. Roesen & D. Uffelmann, Bergen, 2013. P. 316-346
4. Orientalism
*Said, Edward W. Orientalism, London: Routledge and Kegan Poul, 1978.
*Khalid, Adeeb. Russian History and the Debate over Orientalism // Kritika. 2000. Vol. 4, №. 1. P. 691699; Knight, Nathaniel. On Russian Orientalism: a response to Adeeb Khalid // Kritika. 2000.
Vol. 4, №. 1. P. 701-715. Todorova, Maria. Does Russian Orientalism Have a Russian Soul? A
Contribution to the Debate between Nathaniel Knight and Adeeb Khalid // Kritika. 2000. Vol.
4, №. 1. P. 717-727.
*Mitchell, Timothy. Colonizing Egypt, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.
Tolz, Vera. Russia’s Own Orient: The Politics of Identity and Oriental Studies in the Late Imperial and
Early Soviet Periods, Oxford University Press, 2011.
Spivak, Gayatri Chakavorty. Can the Subaltern Speak? // Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory /
eds. Partik Williams, and Laura Chrisman. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. P. 66111.
Slezkine, Yuri. Arctic Mirrors: Russia and the Small Peoples of the North, Ithaca and London: Cornell
University Press, 1994.
Brower, Daniel R., and Edward J. Lazzerini, eds. Russia’s Orient: Imperial Borderlands and Peoples, 17001917, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997.
5. Empire and information
*Richards, Thomas. The Imperial Archive: Knowledge and the Fantasy of Empire, London and New
York: Verso, 1993.
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*Bayly, C. A. Empire and information: intelligence gathering and social communication in India, c 17801870, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
*Hirsch, Francine. The Soviet Union as a Work-in-Progress: Ethnographers and the Category Nationality
in 1926, 1937, and 1939 Censuses // Slavic Review. 1997. Vol. 56, №. 2. P. 251-278.
Rabinow, Paul. French Modern: Norms and Forms of the Social Environment, Chicago and London:
Chicago University Press, 1989.
Scott, James. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Conditions Have Failed,
New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1998.
Satia, Priya. Spies in Arabia: the Great War and the cultural foundations of Britain’s covert empire in the
Middle East, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Ssorin-Chaikov, Nikolai. The Black Box: Notes on the Anthropology of the Enemy // Inner Asia. 2008.
Vol. 10, P. 37-63.
6. The inquisitor
*Ginzburg, Carlo. Morelli, Freud and Sherlock Holmes: clues and scientific method // The Sign of three:
Dupin, Holmes, Peirce / eds. Umberto Eco, & Thomas A. Sebeok. Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 1983. P. 118-181.
*Oushakine, Serguei Alex. Crimes of Substitution: Detection in Late Soviet Society // Public Culture.
2002. Vol. 15, №. 3. P. 427-451.
*Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality. Volume I: An Introduction, New York: Vintage Books, 1980.
Rosaldo, Renato. From the door of his tent: the fieldworker and the inquisitor // Writing culture: the
poetics and politics of ethnography / eds. James Clifford, & George E. Marcus. Berkeley and
London: University of California Press, 1986. P. 77-97.
Ginsburg, Karlo. The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth Century Miller, Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980
Halfin, Igal. Terror in my soul: communist autobiographies on trial, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University
Press, 2003.
7. Episteme
*Foucault, Michel. The order of things: an archaeology of the human sciences, London and New York:
Routledge, 1970.
*Pietz, William. The Problem of the Fetish, I // Res. 1985. Vol. 9, №. Spring. P. 5-17.; The Problem of
the Fetish, II: The Origin of the Fetish // Res. 1987. Vol. 13, №. Spring. P. 23-46.; The Problem
of the Fetish, IIIa: Bosman’s Guinea and the Enlightenment History of Fetishism // Res. 1988.
Vol. 16, №. Autumn. P. 105-124.
*Koselleck, Reinhart. The practice of conceptual history: timing history, spacing concepts, Stanford:
Stanford University Press, 2002
Kuhn, Thomas S. The structure of scientific revolutions, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962.
8. Facts and scientific texts
*Shapin, Steven and Simon Schaffer. Liviathan and the Air-Pump, Princeton: Princeton University Press,
1985. (pp. 3-21 and 283-331, and a chapter of your choice )
*Latour, Bruno. We Have Never Been Modern, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993.
Latour, Bruno, & Steve Woolgar. Laboratory life: the construction of scientific facts, Princeton, N.J.:
Princeton University Press, 1986. (Ch. 2 “Anthropologist visits the laboratory”, pp. 43-90)
Haraway, Donna. Situated Knowledge: the Science Question in Feminism and the Privilige of
Partial Perspective // Feminist Studies. 1988. Vol. 14, P. 575-599.
Haraway, Donna. Primate Visions: Gender, Race and Nature in the World of Modern Science,
London and New York: Routledge, 1989.
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9. The cultural biography of things
*Appadurai, Arjun, ed. The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspectives, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1986. (chs.: 1. Introduction: commodities and the politics of value,
Arjun Appadurai; 2. The cultural biography of things: commoditization as process, Igor Kopytoff
6. Sacred commodities: the circulation of medieval relics, Patrick Geary, and 7. Weavers and
dealers: the authenticity of an oriental carpet, Brian Spooner)
*Hacking, Ian. Historical ontology, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002.
Thomas, Nicholas. Entangled Objects: Exchange, Material Culture and Colonialism in the Pacific,
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1991.
Henare, Amira J. M. Museums, anthropology and Imperial Exchange, Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2005.
Mintz, Sidney. Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History, New York: Viking, 1985.
Sahlins, Marshall. Cosmologies of Capitalism: The Trans-Pacific Sector of the ‘World System’ //
Culture/Power/History: A Reader in Contemporary Social Theory / eds. Nicholas B. Dirks,
Geoff Eley, and Sherry B. Ortner. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. P. 412-455.
Ssorin-Chaikov, Nikolai. Bear skins and macaroni: the social life of things at the margins of a Siberian state
collective // The vanishing rouble: barter networks and non-monetary transactions in postSoviet societies / ed. Paul Seabright. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. P. 345-361.
Henare, Amiria J. M., Martin. Holbraad, & Sari. Wastell. Thinking through things: theorising artefacts
ethnographically, London: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2007.
10. Time and narrative
*Ricoeur, Paul. Time and narrative, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984.
*Buc, Philippe. The dangers of ritual: between early medieval texts and social scientific theory, Princeton,
N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001 (see also Buc, Philippe. Ritual and interpretation: the early
medieval case // Early Medieval Europe. 2000. Vol. 9, №. 2. P. 183-210.)
Carley, K. Extracting Culture Through Textual Analysis // Poetics, vol. 22, 1994, pp. 291-312.
Geertz, Clifford. The Interpretation of Cultures, New York: Basic Books, 1973.
11 Event and narrative
*Badiou, Alain. Being and event, London and New York: Continuum, 2005.
*Humphrey, Caroline. Reassembling individual subjects: Events and decisions in troubled times //
Anthropological Theory. 2008. Vol. 8, №. 4. P. 357-380.
*Robbins, Joel. Anthropology, Pentecostalism, and the New Paul: Conversion, Event, and Social
Transformation // South Atlantic Quarterly. 2010. Vol. 109, №. 4. P. 633-652.
Humphrey, Caroline. Schism, Event, and Revolution: The Old Believers of Trans-Baikalia // Current
Anthropology. 2014. Vol. 55, №. S10. P. S216-S225.
Kaufman, Eleanor. The Saturday of Messianic Time (Agamben and Badiou on the Apostle Paul) // South
Atlantic Quarterly. 2008. Vol. 107, №. 1. P. 37-54.
12. Performativity
*Fitzpatrick, Sheila. Normal People, by Sheila Fitzpatrick. Review of Everything Was For Ever, Until It
Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation by Alexei Yurchak pages 18-20), and a reply by
Yurchak. London Review of Books (Vol. 28 No. 10 · 25 May 2006, pages 18-20)
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n10/sheila-fitzpatrick/normal-people
*Yurchak, Alexei. Everything was forever until it was no more: the last Soviet generation, Princeton, N. J.:
Princeton University Press, 2006.
*Fitzpatrick, Sheila. Tear off the masks!: identity and imposture in twentieth-century Russia, Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 2005.
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*Austin, J. L. How to do things with words, London: Clarendon Press, 1962.
*Butler, Judith. Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist
Theory // Theatre Journal. 1988. Vol. 40, №. 4. P. 519-531.
Carbera, M. On Language, Culture, and Social Action // History and Theory, 20, 2001, pp. 82-100.
13. Copies and originals
*Benjamin, Walter. The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction // Illuminations, by Walter
Benjamin / ed. Hannah Arendt. London: Pimlico, 1999. P. 211-244.
*Ranciére, Jacques. The politics of aesthetics, London and New York: Continuum, 2004 (ch. “Mechanical
Arts and the Promotion of the Anonymous” (pp. 31-35)
Maas, Paul. Textual criticism, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1958.
Dickerman, Leah. Lenin in the age of mechanical production // Disturbing remains: memory, history, and
crisis in the twentieth century / eds. Michael S. Roth, & Charles G. Salas. Los Angeles: Getty
Research Institute, 2001. P. 77-110.
Yurchak, Alexei. Bodies of Lenin: The Hidden Science of Communist Sovereignty // Representations.
2015. Vol. 129, №. 1. P. 116-157.
Burke, Peter. The fabrication of Louis XIV, Yale and London: Yale University Press, 1992.
Course Reading List
Required Readings:
Appadurai, Arjun, ed. The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspectives, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Austin, J. L. How to do things with words, London: Clarendon Press, 1962.
Badiou, Alain. Being and event, London and New York: Continuum, 2005.
Bayly, C. A. Empire and information: intelligence gathering and social communication in India, c 17801870, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Benjamin, Walter. The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction // Illuminations, by Walter
Benjamin / ed. Hannah Arendt. London: Pimlico, 1999. P. 211-244.
Buc, Philippe. The dangers of ritual: between early medieval texts and social scientific theory,
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001
Burke, Peter. New perspectives on historical writing, University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State
University Press, 2001.
Butler, Judith. Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist
Theory // Theatre Journal. 1988. Vol. 40, №. 4. P. 519-531.
Clark, Elizabeth A. History, theory, text: historians and the linguistic turn, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard
University Press, 2004.
Davis, Natalie Zemon. The Rites of Violence: Religious Riot in Sixteenth-Century France // Past &
Present. 1973. Vol. 59, №. 1. P. 51-91.
Fitzpatrick, Sheila. Normal People, by Sheila Fitzpatrick. Review of Everything Was For Ever, Until It
Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation by Alexei Yurchak pages 18-20), and a reply by
Yurchak. London Review of Books (Vol. 28 No. 10 · 25 May 2006, pages 18-20)
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n10/sheila-fitzpatrick/normal-people
Fitzpatrick, Sheila. Tear off the masks!: identity and imposture in twentieth-century Russia, Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 2005.
Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality. Volume I: An Introduction, New York: Vintage Books,
1980.
Foucault, Michel. The order of things: an archaeology of the human sciences, London and New York:
Routledge, 1970.
7
Ginzburg, Carlo. Morelli, Freud and Sherlock Holmes: clues and scientific method // The Sign of
three: Dupin, Holmes, Peirce / eds. Umberto Eco, & Thomas A. Sebeok. Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1983. P. 118-181.
Hacking, Ian. Historical ontology, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002.
Hirsch, Francine. The Soviet Union as a Work-in-Progress: Ethnographers and the Category
Nationality in 1926, 1937, and 1939 Censuses // Slavic Review. 1997. Vol. 56, №. 2. P. 251278.
Humphrey, Caroline. Reassembling individual subjects: Events and decisions in troubled times //
Anthropological Theory. 2008. Vol. 8, №. 4. P. 357-380.
Khalid, Adeeb. Russian History and the Debate over Orientalism // Kritika. 2000. Vol. 4, №. 1. P.
691-699; Knight, Nathaniel. On Russian Orientalism: a response to Adeeb Khalid // Kritika.
2000. Vol. 4, №. 1. P. 701-715. Todorova, Maria. Does Russian Orientalism Have a Russian
Soul? A Contribution to the Debate between Nathaniel Knight and Adeeb Khalid // Kritika.
2000. Vol. 4, №. 1. P. 717-727.
Koselleck, Reinhart. Futures past: on the semantics of historical time, New York: Columbia University
Press, 2004.
Latour, Bruno. We Have Never Been Modern, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993.
Lyotard, Jean-Francois. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, Minneapolis: University
of Minnesota Press, 1984
Mitchell, Timothy. Colonizing Egypt, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.
Oushakine, Serguei Alex. Crimes of Substitution: Detection in Late Soviet Society // Public Culture.
2002. Vol. 15, №. 3. P. 427-451.
Pietz, William. The Problem of the Fetish, I // Res. 1985. Vol. 9, №. Spring. P. 5-17.; The Problem of
the Fetish, II: The Origin of the Fetish // Res. 1987. Vol. 13, №. Spring. P. 23-46.; The
Problem of the Fetish, IIIa: Bosman’s Guinea and the Enlightenment History of Fetishism
// Res. 1988. Vol. 16, №. Autumn. P. 105-124.
Ranciére, Jacques. The politics of aesthetics, London and New York: Continuum, 2004 (ch.
“Mechanical Arts and the Promotion of the Anonymous” (pp. 31-35)
Richards, Thomas. The Imperial Archive: Knowledge and the Fantasy of Empire, London and New
York: Verso, 1993.
Ricoeur, Paul. Time and narrative, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984.
Robbins, Joel. Anthropology, Pentecostalism, and the New Paul: Conversion, Event, and Social
Transformation // South Atlantic Quarterly. 2010. Vol. 109, №. 4. P. 633-652.
Said, Edward W. Orientalism, London: Routledge and Kegan Poul, 1978.
Shapin, Steven and Simon Schaffer. Liviathan and the Air-Pump, Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 1985. (pp. 3-21 and 283-331, and a chapter of your choice )
Spivak, Gayatri Chakavorty. Can the Subaltern Speak? // Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial
Theory / eds. Partik Williams, and Laura Chrisman. New York: Columbia University Press,
1994. P. 66-111.
Stoler, Ann Laura. Along the archival grain: epistemic anxieties and colonial common sense, Princeton,
NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009
Thompson, E. P. The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Eighteenth Century // Past &
Present. 1971. №. 50. P. 76-136.
Verdery, Ketherine. Secrets and Truths: Ethnography in the Archive of Romania’s Secret Police,
Budapest: Central European University Press, 2012.
White, Hayden V. Metahistory: the historical imagination in nineteenth-century Europe, Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973.
Yurchak, Alexei. Everything was forever until it was no more: the last Soviet generation, Princeton, N.
J.: Princeton University Press, 2006.
Optional Readings:
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Baudrillard, Jean. For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign, trans. Translated with an
Introduction by Charles Levin, St. Louis: Telos Press, 1981.
Bracken, Christopher. The Potlatch Papers: A Colonial Case History, Chicago: The University of
Chicago Press, 1997
Brower, Daniel R., and Edward J. Lazzerini, eds. Russia’s Orient: Imperial Borderlands and Peoples,
1700-1917, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997.
Burke, Peter. The fabrication of Louis XIV, Yale and London: Yale University Press, 1992.
Carbera, M. On Language, Culture, and Social Action // History and Theory, 20, 2001, pp. 82-100.
Carley, K. Extracting Culture Through Textual Analysis // Poetics, vol. 22, 1994, pp. 291-312.
Clifford, James. The Predicament of Culture, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988. (Ch.
“Identity in Mashpee”)
Cohn, Bernard S. An Anthropologist among the Historians and Other Essays, Delhi and New York:
Oxford University Press, 1987.
Deleuze, Gilles, & Felix Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, 1987.
Derrida, Jaques. Given Time: 1, Counterfeit Money, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1992.
Dickerman, Leah. Lenin in the age of mechanical production // Disturbing remains: memory, history,
and crisis in the twentieth century / eds. Michael S. Roth, & Charles G. Salas. Los Angeles:
Getty Research Institute, 2001. P. 77-110.
Dirks, Nicholas B. Autobiography of an archive: a scholar’s passage to India, New York: Columbia
University Press, 2015.
Epstain, Michail N. Scriptorics: an introduction to the anthropology and personology of writing //
Epstain, Michail N. The Transformative Humanities: A Manifesto London: Bloomsbury,
2012. P. 117-132.
Geertz, Clifford. The Interpretation of Cultures, New York: Basic Books, 1973.
Gellner, Ernest. The Soviet and the Savage // Current Anthropology. 1975. Vol. 10, №. 4. P. 595-617.
Ginsburg, Karlo. The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth Century Miller, Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980
Guha, Ranajit. Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India, Delhi: Oxford, 1983.
Halfin, Igal. Terror in my soul: communist autobiographies on trial, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard
University Press, 2003.
Haraway, Donna. Primate Visions: Gender, Race and Nature in the World of Modern Science, London
and New York: Routledge, 1989.
Haraway, Donna. Situated Knowledge: the Science Question in Feminism and the Privilige of Partial
Perspective // Feminist Studies. 1988. Vol. 14, P. 575-599.
Hardt, Michael, & Antonio Negri. Multitude: war and democracy in the age of Empire, New York:
The Penguin Press, 2004.
Henare, Amira J. M. Museums, anthropology and Imperial Exchange, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2005.
Henare, Amiria J. M., Martin. Holbraad, & Sari. Wastell. Thinking through things: theorising artefacts
ethnographically, London: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2007.
Humphrey, Caroline. Schism, Event, and Revolution: The Old Believers of Trans-Baikalia // Current
Anthropology. 2014. Vol. 55, №. S10. P. S216-S225.
Kaufman, Eleanor. The Saturday of Messianic Time (Agamben and Badiou on the Apostle Paul) //
South Atlantic Quarterly. 2008. Vol. 107, №. 1. P. 37-54.
Koselleck, Reinhart. The practice of conceptual history: timing history, spacing concepts, Stanford:
Stanford University Press, 2002
Kuhn, Thomas S. The structure of scientific revolutions, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962.
Kukulin I. V. From history as language to the language of history: the notes on “The Target” movie //
Vladimir Sorokin’s Languages: Mediality, Interculturality, Translation (Slavica Bergensia 11),
eds. T. Roesen & D. Uffelmann, Bergen, 2013. P. 316-346
9
Latour, Bruno, & Steve Woolgar. Laboratory life: the construction of scientific facts, Princeton, N.J.:
Princeton University Press, 1986. (Ch. 2 “Anthropologist visits the laboratory”, pp. 43-90)
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List of competences. As a result of completing the course, students will develop the following
competences:
Systemic competencies
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Code
(RUS)
Code
(ENG)
Competence description
СК-2
SC-2
Способен формулировать научные концепции,
создавать модели, вырабатывать и
апробировать новые методы и инструменты
профессиональной деятельности
Ability to generate research concepts and
theoretical models, to test new methods and
tools for professional research activities
СК-6
SC-6
Способен анализировать, верифицировать,
оценивать полноту информации в ходе
профессиональной деятельности, при
необходимости восполнять и
синтезировать недостающую информацию
The ability to analyze, verify and assess the
sufficiency of available information in the
course professional research activity and, if
necessary, generate and synthesize
information that is lacking for analysis.
Professional competencies
criticism ПК-3 ПК-4 ПК-6 ПК-16 ПК-19
Code
(RUS)
Code
(ENG)
Competence description
ПК-3
PC-3
воспринимать научные тексты и сообщения,
реферировать научную литературу на русском и
иностранных языках
Ability to comprehend academic texts and
reports and review research literature in Russian
and foreign languages freely
ПК-4
PC-4
анализировать исторические источники на
русском и иностранных языках
Ability to analyze historical sources in Russian
and foreign languages
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ПК-6
PC-6
осуществлять поиск и обработку информации,
ее
презентацию, работать с базами данных в
гуманитарных науках
Ability to search for, process and present
information, to work with data bases in the
humanities
ПК-7
PC-7
формулировать актуальные научные проблемы,
изучение которых может обогатить
историческую науку, и решать перспективные
научно-исследовательские и прикладные задачи
Ability to formulate relevant and promising research
questions, study of which may enrich history, and to
adequately address and resolve prospective
fundamental and applied research issues
Personal and social competencies
criticism ПК-16 ПК-19
Code
(RUS)
Code
(ENG)
Competence description
ПК-16
PC-16
формировать у учащихся умения и навыки
восприятия исторического текста
Ability to comprehend a historical text
ПК-19
PC-19
создавать и редактировать научные и научнопопулярные тексты по гуманитарным и
социальным наукам
Ability to write and edit research and popular
science texts in humanities and social sciences
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