Social Evolution and History Nº 24/2 - 2025

Social Evolution & History 

Nº 24/2 - 2025

INDEX

Stories of Ancient Stones: A Living Tradition of 

Indigenous People (Mundas) in Jharkhand, India

Elizabeth Tuti; Meena Kumari; 

Kumari Vibhuti Nayak; Shamsher Alam

The Dynamics of Aggression and Anxiety during 

Disasters (a Case Study of Three Waves of the 

COVID-19 Pandemic in Russia)

Burkova, Valentina N.; Butovskaya, Marina L.; 

Alexey M. Ermakov; Nikolay Yu. Simakov; 

Julija N. Fedenok; Azat B. Galimkhanov; 

Alexey V. Emelyanov; Olga V. Kalinichenko; 

Natalia V. Rymarenko; Victoriya I. Spodina; 

Raushaniia I. Zinurova

Digital Transformation of Sub-Saharan African 

Countries in Historical Perspective: From the 

First Computers to the AI-driven Economy

Pierre-Emmanuel Thomann; 

Konstantin Pantserev

Islamist State Formation in Somalia

Mir-Ali Askerov; Korotayev, 

Andrey; Issaev, Leonid M.

The Genetic Basis of Altruism and Cooperative

 Behaviour in Human Societies

Muhammad Muzammal; Abida Bibi; 

Maria Shafiq; Hunza Malik; Sabeeha Asad; 

Nazia Farid Burki; Muhammad Ismail; 

Shafiqua Istiaq; Muhammad Harris; ´

Harmain Saba; Umar Raoon; 

Hamna Batool Hashmi; Hadia Gul; 

Muzammil Ahmad Khan

Special Section Evolution and Forms 
of Socio-political  Organization: 
Historical & Anthropological Approaches. 

Colloquium Proceedings. Guest Editors Dmitri M. 

Bondarenko and Ivan A. Ladynin

Evolution and Forms of Socio-Political Organization: 

Historical and Anthropological Approaches 

(Introductory Remarks)

Bondarenko, Dmitri M.

Why do We Need a Typology (Classification) and a 

Political Anthropological Meta-Language for 

Describing Post-Neolithic Pre-Modern Polities?

Aleksei S. Shchavelev

Historical Reality in Ancient and Modern 

Political Terminology: In Search of a Common

Andrey M. Smorchkov

Socio-Political Terminology for Pre-State Societies 

in Antiquity: Sarmatian Rulers between History, 

Anthropology, and Archaeology

Evgeny V. Vdovchenkov

On the Discussion of the Concepts of ‘Chiefdom’

 and ‘Tribe’ in Current Political Anthropology a

nd History of Primitive Society

Popov, Vladimir A.

Debates on the Origin of the State: 

Some Results and Perspectives

Kradin, Nikolay N.

On the Stages of the Evolution of Statehood

Grinin, Leonid

The Nome Polities in Egypt and 

Mesopotamia in the Fourth and Third 

Millennia BC: Reconstructions and Scholarly Models

Ivan A. Ladynin; 

Alexander A. Nemirovsky

Middle Euphrates Polities of the Bronze Age 

and Their Place in the Typology of Ancient States

Boris Alexandrov

Greek Polis on the Scale of Potestary Formations: 

State, ‘Proto-State’, ‘Post-State’?

Igor E. Surikov

Etatist and Non-etatist Approaches to 

the Study of Ancient Civil Community: 

Discussions on civitas Romana

Vera V. Dementyeva

Commonwealth, People, Civil Community 

 State? Revisiting Augustine's Polemic with Cicero

Alexander V. Marey

Modern Imperiology Theories and Problems 

of the Study of Ancient Empires

Alexander V. Makhlaiuk

Congratulations on the 80th Birthday

 of Professor Petr Skalník

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