Sociocultural anthropology of law as a historical and legal methodology

Ilya Chestnov; Irina Lomakina

doi:10.35750/2071-8284-2025-2-44-49

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SOCIOCULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF LAW AS A HISTORICAL AND LEGAL METHODOLOGY Sociocultural anthropology of law as a historical and legal methodology

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Published in Vestnik of the St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia · Volume 2025, Issue 2 · Pages 44–49 · Rubric: Theoretical and historical legal sciences

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35750/2071-8284-2025-2-44-49

Received: 02.03.2025 Accepted: 20.06.2025 Published: 26.06.2025 Language of publication: RUS

Authors

Ilya Chestnov

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Irina Lomakina

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Ilya Chestnov

Academic degree: doctor of jurisprudence sciences

Science rang: professor

St. Petersburg Law Institute (branch) of University of the Office of the Prosecutor of the Russian Federation Professor · Russian Federation · Санкт-Петербург

Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia professor · kafedra teorii prava i grazhdansko-pravovogo obrazovaniya · Saint Petersburg

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Irina Lomakina

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ABSTRACT

Introduction. The The authors of the article reveal the perspectives of sociocultural anthropology of law as a historical and legal methodology. Modern history and the history of law are becoming the most important disciplines in educational policy. At the same time, the content of the history (and the history of law) and its methodology are changing according to the processes and phenomena taking place in post-modern society. Methods. In the history (and the history of law) in the second half of the twentieth century, new methodological approaches emerged and actively developed, shaping the ontology of perception and evaluation of the past: history of mentalities and historical anthropology; history of concepts and discourse; new intellectual history; narrative history; microhistory; oral history etc. Results. The authors conclude that the appropriate understanding of the history of law today is based on new approaches emphasising legal consciousness, construction of legal reality and social aspects of the rule of law. The authors identify the following as the principles of the new, post-classical sociocultural historical anthropology of law. First, the recognition of the human being as the backbone of the legal system. Second, the emphasis on the practices used by people at all times to construct and reproduce legal reality. Third, the need to analyse the legal consciousness of the governing elite, the main reference groups, law enforcers and ordinary people (ordinary legal consciousness), the relevant era and the given society. Forth, contextuality, determining all legal innovations. Fifth, the study of the effectiveness of the legal institutions under consideration. Conclusion. Such a programme makes it possible to give the fullest possible overview of the historical past.

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history of law, anthropology of law, sociocultural anthropology of law, historical sociocultural anthropology of law, historical and legal methodology

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Chestnov I. L., Lomakina I. B. Sociocultural anthropology of law as a historical and legal methodology // Vestnik of the St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. 2025. no. 2. pp. 44-49. DOI: https://doi.org/10.35750/2071-8284-2025-2-44-49. (Date of access 09.10.2026).

MLA

Ilya Chestnov, Lomakina I. B.. "Sociocultural anthropology of law as a historical and legal methodology." Vestnik of the St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia 2025.2 (2025): 44-49. DOI: https://doi.org/10.35750/2071-8284-2025-2-44-49.

APA

Chestnov I. L., Lomakina I. B. (2025). Sociocultural anthropology of law as a historical and legal methodology. Vestnik of the St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, 2025(2), 44-49. https://doi.org/10.35750/2071-8284-2025-2-44-49

Chicago

Ilya Chestnov, Lomakina I. B.. "Sociocultural anthropology of law as a historical and legal methodology." Vestnik of the St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia 2025, no. 2 (2025): 44-49. https://doi.org/10.35750/2071-8284-2025-2-44-49.

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