Sofia Gavrilova

Russia's Regional Museums (eBook, ePUB)

Representing and Misrepresenting Knowledge about Nature, History and Society

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents the results of extensive research into the very interesting phenomenon of local museums - kraevedschskyi museums - in Russia's regions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000642124
• Artikelnr.: 64558782

Autorenporträt

Sofia Gavrilova completed her doctorate at the University of Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Note on transliteration
List of figures
Introduction
1 Cultural myths and common silences in (post-)Soviet museums
2 'Ask anyone; it's just around the corner': kraevedenie museums in the
Russian cityscape
3 A brief overview of the history of Russian regional museums
4 'Arctic tundra. Forest. Desert': constructing nature in kraevedenie
museums
5 Nature-human relations in contemporary kraevedenie museums
6 'From ancient times to the present day': the construction of history
7 Representations of the Great Terror: from denial to understanding?
8 'A northern man with a harpoon': representing a socialist society and
creating 'others'
9 Creating 'the other' in contemporary Russian kraevedenie museums
10 Creating (post-)Soviet taxonomies: cultural myths and 'common unsaids'
Index

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Acknowledgements



Note on transliteration



List of figures

Introduction

1 Cultural myths and common silences in (post-)Soviet museums

2 'Ask anyone; it's just around the corner': kraevedenie museums in the Russian cityscape

3 A brief overview of the history of Russian regional museums

4 'Arctic tundra. Forest. Desert': constructing nature in kraevedenie museums

5 Nature-human relations in contemporary kraevedenie museums

6 'From ancient times to the present day': the construction of history

7 Representations of the Great Terror: from denial to understanding?

8 'A northern man with a harpoon': representing a socialist society and creating 'others'

9 Creating 'the other' in contemporary Russian kraevedenie museums

10 Creating (post-)Soviet taxonomies: cultural myths and 'common unsaids'



Index