Russian Cultural Anthropology after the Collapse of Communism (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Baiburin, Albert; Vakhtin, Nikolai; Kelly, Catriona

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents an overview of how anthropology in Russia has been transformed since Soviet times, and showcases examples of important, interesting Russian anthropological work. As such, the book will be of great interest not just to Russian specialists, but also to anthropologists more widely, and to all those interested in the way academic study is conducted and related to prevailing political and social conditions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136297281
• Artikelnr.: 38243621

Autorenporträt

Albert Baiburin is Malkhaz Abdushelishvili Professor of Anthropology at the European University, St Petersburg Catriona Kelly is Professor of Russian at the University of Oxford Nikolai Vakhtin is University Professor of Arctic Social Studies at the European University, St Petersburg

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Albert Baiburin, Catriona Kelly, Nikolai Vakhtin 1. Writing
the History of Russian Anthropology Sergei Sokolovsky 2. Female Taboos and
Concepts of the Unclean among the Nenets. Elena Liarskaya 3. 'The Wrong
Nationality': Ascribed Identity in the 1930s Soviet Union Albert Baiburin
4. The Queue as Narrative: A Soviet Case Study Konstantin Bogdanov 5. 'I
Didn't Understand, But It Was Funny': Late Soviet Festivals and their
Impact on Children Catriona Kelly, Svetlana Sirotinina 6. The Practices of
'Privacy' in a South Russian Village (a Case Study of Stepnoe, Krasnodar
Region) Alexander Manuylov 7. Believers' Letters as Advertising: St Xenia
of Petersburg's 'National Reception Centre' Jeanne Kormina, Sergei Shtyrkov
8. 'The Yellow Peril' as Seen in Contemporary Church Culture Mariya
Akhmetova 9. 'Don't Look at Them, They're Nasty': Photographs of Funerals
in Russian Culture Olga Boitsova 10. Historical Zaryadye as Remembered by
Locals: Cultural Meanings of City Spaces Pavel Kupriyanov. Lyudmila
Sadovnikova 11. Yerevan: Memory and Forgetting in the Organization of
Post-Soviet Urban Space Levon Abrahamian