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UNINA9910823736903321 |
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Titolo |
Russian cultural anthropology after the collapse of communism / / edited by Albert Baiburin, Catriona Kelly and Nikolai Vakhtin |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, NY, : Routledge, 2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-87393-0 |
9786613715241 |
1-136-29729-4 |
0-203-11601-1 |
1-136-29728-6 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (305 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe series ; ; 34 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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BaiburinA. K |
KellyCatriona |
VakhtinN. B (Nikolai Borisovich) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Anthropology - Russia (Federation) |
Anthropology - Soviet Union |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 of contemporary Soviet life. Since the end of the Soviet Union anthropology in Russia has been transformed. International research standards have been adopted, and the focus of research has shifted to include urban culture and difficult subjects, such as xenophobia. However, this transformation has b |
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