1. Oriental History
Intro

2. Orient concept
Role of sociology and anthropology in oriental society image formation
People expansion and the Neolithic Revolution
Topics

3. Orient concept Differences in geographical meaning
Civilization meaning
Historical and Cultural meaning
Orient concept

4. Orient concept Greco-Persian Wars V B.C.
Herodotus  ἱστορία: East-West opposition
Aristotle IV B.C.  Politics: Tyranny characteristic for Orient (Despotic Monarchy)
Orient as a Holy Land (Middle Ages)
Orient as a space remote in time (XVIII AD)
Orient concept

5. West and East opposition on the power- property base: The West - private property, the East - communal property
The Orient as an image for identification
Orient concept

6. A Phenomenon of Developing country

7. Role of Anthropology in Shaping the Image of the Ancient society
Lewis-Henri Morgan (Marriage and family)
Bronisław Malinowski (coherence between the worldview and social organization)
Marcel Mauss (potlatch)

8. Development of Anthropology
Approach:
Cabinet anthropology (Morgan)
Field anthropology (Malinowski)
Aim:
Imperial (how to manage the new groups: the French Empire, the British Empire)
Colonial (curiosity)
Post-colonial (study)
Development of Anthropology

9. The role of sociology in the images of an ancient society formation
Karl Marx (Asiatic mode of production)
Emile Durkheim (social solidarity, social cell)
Karl August Wittfogel(«Oriental Despotism», «Hydraulic empire»)→ Leo.S. Vasiliev «power and property»
The role of sociology in the images of an ancient society formation

10. People expansion and the Neolithic Revolution

12. James Henry Breasted’s Fertile Crescent

13. Neolithic revolution The fertility increase
Increase of children survival rate
Migration intensification
New territories development
Succession of habits between groups of people (the existence of a stereotypical behavior)
Administration emergence
Neolithic revolution