“Big concepts”: How we use them in our research (Materials of a roundtable on December 13, 2019)

Abstract

We publish the transcript (with minor cuts) of materials from a roundtable held within the framework of the international conference “‘Big Theories' and ‘New Turns': Trajectories of Folklore Studies and Anthropology at the End of the 20th - Early 21st Century” (Moscow, December 2019). Anthropologists A. A. Panchenko (Institute of Russian Literature [Pushkinsky House] of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg / European University at St. Petersburg), Zh. V. Kormina (National Research University Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg), D. A. Oparin (Lomonosov Moscow State University), S. S. Alymov (Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow), and O. B. Khristoforova (Russian State University for the Humanities / The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Moscow) took part in a discussion concerning the use of basic concepts of anthropology and folklore studies in the 20th and 21st centuries.