Field archaeography yesterday, today and tomorrow: thinking about recent publications of Moscow State University

Using the example of publications about the Old-Believers' book culture of the Upper Kam and South Vyatka areas based on the results of complex expeditions arranged by Moscow University, this article considers a current state and development prospects of one of the oldest Russian humanitarian branches of science - field archaeopraphy. Field archaeoprahy is a branch of science connected with search, expertise and introduction of historical and literary documents in the scientific sphere. Yet in the 1960s, it put a question of studying text / book in everyday life. Despite long and efficient research in studying folk Christian culture of writing and reading, its analytic practices are still poorly known and unclaimed by both domestic and foreign researchers of literacy studies phenomenon. It is caused by a number of ideological, scientific and social factors such as both a lack of the term "archaeography" in the European scientific discourse and a critical attitude to the scientific heritage of the Soviet period. In these conditions the research aimed at developing national intellectual tradition and, at the same time, at presenting its achievements to the international academic society is of great importance for field archaeography. One of it is a series of studies considered in this article performed by archae-orgraphs from Moscow State University - one of the leading Russian centers of studying the Cyrillic book and its keepers - the Old-Believers. The significance of these publications is not limited by providing the documents on regional "Old-Believers' History" and catalogues from community and private book collections. Arranging scientific materials in these collections indicates new techniques necessary for working with book collections being in "live use" and new ways of presenting both field and archive materials showing socio-communicative processes where interpenetration of oral and written elements of the Old-Believers' culture takes place as well as ideological values and behavioural strategies of the Old-Believers in the 21st century are shaped. Thus, the publications of Moscow archaeographs allow the author to state the tendency to plastic correction of the field archaeography targets, adding traditional tasks on forming a scientific regional database to it and discovering texts / books of great scientific and cultural values by other research programmes. Their constituents are readiness to discuss the targets of archaeographical research, ethic and scientific principles of introducing field materials in the scientific use and development of the digital presentations content of the Old-Believers' book collections as a historically formed information complex. The efficient performance of these research tasks will influence the ability of field archaeography to assimilate new academic niches these days and define its own development tomorrow.

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