THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF CLOSED SOCIETIES

[Elena Gapova]

Dear colleagues,

on a friend's request, I would like to bring to your attention the special
issue of The New Literary Observer (NLO) titled "The Anthropology of Closed
Societies"
e.g.

>   *Subject:* Summary: The New Literary Observer (NLO) No. 100. Special issue
> on "The Anthropology of Closed Societies"
>
>  *SUMMARY *
>
> *The New Literary Observer (NLO) No. 100 *
>
> THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF CLOSED SOCIETIES
>
> This special issue marks a new starting point in NLO's innovative
> strategies as well as the beginning of a long-term international academic
> project initiated by the journal.
>
> The *Anthropology of Closed Societies *is an attempt at an alternative
> view on Russian and European history of the last 300 years through
> re-evaluating the notion and genesis of *Modernity*, its main
> characteristics and various consequences to the fates of different countries
> and nations.
>
> The main goal of this project is to study the phenomenon of <<closed
> societies>> like Imperial and Soviet Russia, Salazar Portugal, Franco\'s
> Spain, Nazi Germany, Japan etc. from the perspective of a new strand of
> thought known as the school of <<multiple modernities>>, i.e. not as strange
> and unfortunate deviations from the modern <<progressive>> world but as an
> integral -- albeit dramatic -- part of Modernity.
>
> The NLO's special issue is focused on the *anthropological *approach to a
> complex notion of closed societies, i.e. a radical shift from the political
> and macro-economical levels of theoretical and historical interpretations
> towards the level of society and individuals. Our aim is to find the common
> strategies of individual and corporate survival and resistance, alternative
> ways of evolution and development in such rigid and self-isolated cultures
> which ultimately led to their opening up to the world.
>
  http://www.nlobooks.ru/rus/magazines/nlo/196/1641/1689/
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