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Russian Cultural Anthropology Since the Collapse of Communism.
In Soviet times, anthropologists in the Soviet Union were closely involved in the state's work of nation building. They helped define official nationalities, and gathered material about traditional customs and suitably heroic folklore, whilst at the same time refraining from work on the reality...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Taylor & Francis
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Conventions; Introduction: Soviet and post-Soviet anthropology; 1 Writing the history of Russian anthropology; 2 Female taboos and concepts of the unclean among the Nenets; 3 'The wrong nationality': ascribed identity in the 1930s Soviet Union; 4 The queue as narrative: a Soviet case study; 5 'I didn't understand, but it was funny': late Soviet festivals and their impact on children; 6 The practices of 'privacy' in a South Russian village (a case study of Stepnoe, Krasnodar Region)
- 7 Believers' letters as advertising: St Xenia of Petersburg's 'National Reception Centre'8 'The yellow peril' as seen in contemporary church culture; 9 'Don't look at them, they're nasty': photographs of funerals in Russian culture; 10 Historical Zaryadye as remembered by locals: cultural meanings of city spaces; 11 Yerevan: memory and forgetting in the organisation of post-Soviet urban space; Name index; Subject index