Social Anthopology of Modern Russian Town: Research Project

In 2008-2010 a research group of teachers and students of the Center together with some specialists and graduate students of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology took part in the research project “Social Anthropology of Modern Russian Town” that targeted life of citizens of small towns. All the participants of the project did fieldwork in one of the selected towns.

The regions the study included were located in the central part of Russia, Krasnodar region in the South, Kaliningrad region in the West, and Altai in the East. The members of the project covered the towns that differ in natural environment, predominant occupation of citizens and age/sex composition of the population.

Project members worked in small groups (2-4 persons) and did their research with such methods as participant observation, interviews, archive studies, photo/video recording and mass-media analysis. Several conferences and workshops were held as the project progressed.

 As a result several research reports reflecting the main conclusion were made, the materials of the expeditions were summarized and published in several articles, monographs and the collective two-volume monograph “Social Anthropology of Russian Town”.