title: The Russian Version of the Sociology of Antiquity
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metadata.value: Krikh, Sergey B.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-10-19T18:22:05Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-10-19T18:22:05Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-09
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Krikh S.B. The Russian Version of the Sociology of Antiquity. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2020, vol. 65, issue 3, рp. 1006–1015.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2020.319
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/19945
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article reviews the book “The Banks of the Oecumene. Historical Sociology about the
  Paradoxes of the Economic Life of the Ancient East” by the Russian scientist S.A.Davydov.
  The book is comprised of three chapters: the first chapter deals with the genesis of a state;
  the second — with the early history of ancient Egypt and its “mobilizing economy”, and the
  third — with the ancient Mesopotamian society, particularly, with freedom and slavery in its
  economic activity. The author of the article points out that references to scholarly works in
  other sources and factual lapses significantly impair the quality of this work. A considerable
  part of the book is a review of selected fragments from several famous books (for example,
  “The Stone Age Economics” by M. Sahlins), which impacts the independence of the work. The
  problem lies not only in the lack of original material for the book, but in the fact that Davydov
  is not sufficiently aware of the history of the development of scholarship about the ancient
  world, and therefore often deems relevant such theories that have been recognized as outdated
  for a long time. Davydov’s key ideas are not as fresh and bold as he thinks. For example, when
  the author questions the despotic nature of ancient Eastern societies (Egypt and Mesopotamia), he challenges a stereotypical perception of despotism, which is far from the knowledge
  about ancient societies and not connected with contemporary scholarly theories. The author’s
  reflections about “freedom — slavery” in the ancient world only come close to the ideas put
  forward by M.Finley and I.Gelb more than fifty years ago. Nevertheless, the attempt of a historical and sociological analysis of ancient history deserves attention and may be useful for the
  development of historical scholarship.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The reported study was funded by RFBR, project number 20-09-41014 (“From the Holy Land to the
  Slave Formation: The History of the Ancient Near East in Russian Historical Scholarship in 20th century”).
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 65; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: historical sociology
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: genesis of a state
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Ancient Egypt
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Ancient Mesopotamia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Russian Version of the Sociology of Antiquity
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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