Alaina Lemon

Between Two Fires

Gypsy Performance and Romani Memory from Pushkin to Post-Socialism

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Produktbeschreibung

""Between Two Fires" addresses an important series of topics for anthropology in general and for the study of the Soviet Union and for postsocialist Russia in particular. Lemon weds current theoretical concerns to an understudied but significant community."--Martha Lampland, author of "The Object of Labor: Commodification in Socialist Hungary"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 699g
• ISBN-13: 9780822324560
• ISBN-10: 0822324563
• Artikelnr.: 21163600

Autorenporträt

Alaina Lemon is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Notes on Orthography and Transcripts
> Introduction
1. Pushkin, The Gypsies, and Russian Imperialist Nostalgia
> 2. Roma, Race, and Post-Soviet Markets
> 3. “What is Your Nation?” Performing Romani Distinctions
4. The Gypsy Stage, Socialism, and Authenticity
> 5. The Hidden Nail: Memory, Loyalty, and Models of Revelation
> 6. “Roma” and “Gazhje”: Shifting Terms
> 7. Conclusion: At Home in Russia
Appendix A. Roma and Other Tsygane in the Commonwealth of Independent
States
> Appendix B. Dialect Differences
> Appendix C. Vlax-Lovari Romani Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index