Dmitri Bondarenko

Dmitri Bondarenko
Dmitri Bondarenko

Born June 9, 1968
Russia Moscow, Russia
Residence Russia Moscow, Russia
Nationality Russia Russian
Fields Theory of cultural evolution, political anthropology, African Studies
Institutions Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences; Russian State University for the Humanities
Alma mater Moscow State University
Known for contributions to theory of cultural evolution, African Studies
Notable awards Grant of the Foundation for National Science Support for outstanding young D.Sc. holders (2008, 2009); European Academy prize for young CIS scholars (for the monograph Benin on the Eve of the First Contacts with Europeans: Personality. Society. Authority) (1997)

Dmitri Bondarenko (Dmitri M. Bondarenko, Dmitri Mikhailovich Bondarenko; Russian: Дми́трий Миха́йлович Бондаре́нко), born 1968 in Moscow, is a Russian anthropologist, historian, and africanist. He has conducted field research in a number of African countries (particularly, Tanzania, Nigeria, Benin, Rwanda, Zambia) and in Russia. He is Vice-Director for Research of the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Full Professor with the Center of Social Anthropology of the Russian State University for the Humanities. Dmitri Bondarenko is also a co-founder and co-editor of "Social Evolution & History[1]".

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Education

Bondarenko graduated with the M.A. degree in 1990 from the Moscow State University, Department of Ethnography, School of History. He completed his Ph.D. in 1993 at Russian Academy of Sciences. He also holds Doctor of Sciences degree (2000) from the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Research interests and major contributions

Theory of cultural evolution, political anthropology, pre-industrial societies, intercultural interaction in contemporary world (including ethnic, racial, and religious aspects), culture and history of Africa south of the Sahara.

Bondarenko has introduced (together with Andrey Korotayev) and started elaborating the notion of homoarchy to be coupled with the one of heterarchy, noting that the heterarchy (defined as "the relation of elements to one another when they are unranked or when they possess the potential for being ranked in a number of different ways") is not the opposite of any hierarchy all together, but is rather the opposite of "homoarchy", defined as "the relation of elements to one another when they are rigidly ranked one way only, and thus possess no (or not more than very limited) potential for being unranked or ranked in another or a number of different ways at least without cardinal reshaping of the whole socio-political order".

Basing primarily on the precolonial Benin Kingdom evidence, Bondarenko has elaborated the conception of "megacommunity" as a specific type of the non-state supercomplex society, integration of a supercomplex (exceeding the complex chiefdom level) society on community (and hence non-state) basis being its main distinctive feature. He has contributed to the studies of the state origins and nature by dealing with such aspects of the problematics as the dynamics of kinship and territoriality as principles of socio-political organization, transformations in ideology, and others.

In publications on contemporary issues Bondarenko argues that globalization should be viewed as a primarily cultural, not economic and political, phenomenon which is by no means a recently appeared one but which embraces essentially the whole human history, and which can turn out a "successful historical project" in the shape of a "federation of local civilizations" only.

Publications

Bondarenko has authored 5 monographs (including 2 in English) and over 300 other publications:

Among his more important articles in English are:

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