Making the New Post-Soviet Person

Jarrett Zigon, Ph.D. in Anthropology (2006, CUNY Graduate Center), is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. He has published extensively on morality in post-Soviet Russia and the anthropology of moralities, including Morality: an anthropological perspective (Berg 2008).

"Jarrett Zigon’s new book is a fresh and welcome addition to the growing body of ethnography on postsocialist Russia [...] More important and successful here is Zigon’s effort to step decisively away from essentialist visions of what “Russian morality” (242) might be in order to emphasize the dialogic and intersubjective nature of moral experience. While this makes for fewer of the “take-away” insights into postsocialist moral culture some readers will be seeking, it also enables a thoughtful, original, and thought-provoking contribution to the anthropology of morality and personhood more broadly." – Jennifer Patico, Georgia State University, in: Slavic Review 70/3 (Fall 2011), pp. 720-1

• Part I: Backgroundsa window within the windowpost-Soviet social and personal transformationsarticulating morality in contemporary Russiathe anthropology of moralitiestheory of moral breakdownlife history and experiencenarrativeslocating my interlocutors organization of the bookPart II: Moral PortraitsOlyaLarisaOlya and LarisaDimaAnnaAleksandra VladimirovnaPart III: Some Conclusionsmorality and personhoodrange of possibilitiesmorality and new post-Soviet personhood