The article is a brief introduction to the issue’s special theme focusing on the “Anthropology of Heritage: Critical Concepts in Russian Contexts”. It presents the contributions by P.S. Kupriyanov, M.A. Mochalova, D.G. Chubukova and V.A. Tanailova, and characterizes them in the framework of scholarly debates around the influential concept of authorized heritage discourse (AHD) proposed by Laurajane Smith.
Pavel Kupriyanov (Wed,) studied this question.