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Needed by Nobody
Homelessness and Humanness in Post-Socialist Russia
Inbunden, 2009
1646 kr
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Homelessness became a conspicuous facet of Russian cityscapes only in the 1990s, when the Soviet criminalization of vagrancy and similar offenses was abolished. In spite of the host of social and economic problems confronting Russia in the demise of Soviet power, the social dislocation endured by …
Needed by Nobody
Homelessness and Humanness in Post-Socialist Russia
Häftad, 2009
388 kr
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Homelessness became a conspicuous facet of Russian cityscapes only in the 1990s, when the Soviet criminalization of vagrancy and similar offenses was abolished. In spite of the host of social and economic problems confronting Russia in the demise of Soviet power, the social dislocation endured by …
Unmaking of Soviet Life
Everyday Economies After Socialism
Inbunden, 2002
1695 kr
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In order to understand today's Russia and former Soviet republics, it is vital to consider their socialist past. Caroline Humphrey, one of anthropology's most highly regarded thinkers on a number of topics including consumption, identity, and ritual, is the ideal guide to the intricacies of …
Vanishing Hectare
Property and Value in Postsocialist Transylvania
Inbunden, 2003
1695 kr
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In most countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, the fall of communism opened up the possibility for individuals to acquire land. Based on Katherine Verdery's extensive fieldwork between 1990 and 2001, The Vanishing Hectare explores the importance of land and land ownership to the …
Russia Gets the Blues
Music, Culture, and Community in Unsettled Times
Inbunden, 2004
1646 kr
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Michael Urban chronicles the advent of blues music in Russia and explores the significance of the genre in the turbulent, postcommunist society. Russians, he explains, have taken a music originating in the "low" culture of the American South and transformed it into an object of "high" culture, …
Empire of Nations
Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union
Inbunden, 2005
1695 kr
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When the Bolsheviks seized power in 1917, they set themselves the task of building socialism in the vast landscape of the former Russian Empire, a territory populated by hundreds of different peoples belonging to a multitude of linguistic, religious, and ethnic groups. Before 1917, the Bolsheviks …
Captive and the Gift
Cultural Histories of Sovereignty in Russia and the Caucasus
Av Bruce Grant
Inbunden, 2009
1695 kr
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The Caucasus region of Eurasia, wedged in between the Black and Caspian Seas, encompasses the modern territories of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, as well as the troubled republic of Chechnya in southern Russia. A site of invasion, conquest, and resistance since the onset of historical record, …
How Russia Really Works
The Informal Practices That Shaped Post-Soviet Politics and Business
Inbunden, 2006
1695 kr
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During the Soviet era, blat—the use of personal networks for obtaining goods and services in short supply and for circumventing formal procedures—was necessary to compensate for the inefficiencies of socialism. The collapse of the Soviet Union produced a new generation of informal practices. In How …
Defending the Border
Identity, Religion, and Modernity in the Republic of Georgia
Inbunden, 2006
1695 kr
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This book, one of the first in English about everyday life in the Republic of Georgia, describes how people construct identity in a rapidly changing border region. Based on extensive ethnographic research, it illuminates the myriad ways residents of the Caucasus have rethought who they are since …
Overkill
Sex and Violence in Contemporary Russian Popular Culture
Inbunden, 2007
1599 kr
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Perestroika and the end of the Soviet Union transformed every aspect of life in Russia, and as hope began to give way to pessimism, popular culture came to reflect the anxiety and despair felt by more and more Russians. Free from censorship for the first time in Russia's history, the popular …
Communities of the Converted
Ukrainians and Global Evangelism
Inbunden, 2007
1646 kr
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After decades of official atheism, a religious renaissance swept through much of the former Soviet Union beginning in the late 1980s. The Calvinist-like austerity and fundamentalist ethos that had evolved among sequestered and frequently persecuted Soviet evangelicals gave way to a charismatic …
Gumilev Mystique
Biopolitics, Eurasianism, and the Construction of Community in Modern Russia
Av Mark Bassin
Inbunden, 2016
1695 kr
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Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the legacy of the historian, ethnographer, and geographer Lev Nikolaevich Gumilev (1912–1992) has attracted extraordinary interest in Russia and beyond. The son of two of modern Russia's greatest poets, Nikolai Gumilev and Anna Akhmatova, Gumilev spent …
Patriotism of Despair
Nation, War, and Loss in Russia
Inbunden, 2009
1695 kr
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The sudden dissolution of the Soviet Union altered the routines, norms, celebrations, and shared understandings that had shaped the lives of Russians for generations. It also meant an end to the state-sponsored, nonmonetary support that most residents had lived with all their lives. How did …
Old Faith and the Russian Land
A Historical Ethnography of Ethics in the Urals
Inbunden, 2009
1646 kr
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The Old Faith and the Russian Land is a historical ethnography that charts the ebbs and flows of ethical practice in a small Russian town over three centuries. The town of Sepych was settled in the late seventeenth century by religious dissenters who fled to the forests of the Urals to escape a …
Not Quite Shamans
Spirit Worlds and Political Lives in Northern Mongolia
Inbunden, 2011
1646 kr
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The forms of contemporary society and politics are often understood to be diametrically opposed to any expression of the supernatural; what happens when those forms are themselves regarded as manifestations of spirits and other occult phenomena? In Not Quite Shamans, Morten Axel Pedersen explores …
Border Work
Spatial Lives of the State in Rural Central Asia
Inbunden, 2014
1695 kr
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Drawing on extensive and carefully designed ethnographic fieldwork in the Ferghana Valley region, where the state borders of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikizstan and Uzbekistan intersect, Madeleine Reeves develops new ways of conceiving the state as a complex of relationships, and of state borders as socially …
Contested Tongues
Language Politics and Cultural Correction in Ukraine
Häftad, 2006
483 kr
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During the controversial 2004 elections that led to the "Orange Revolution" in Ukraine, cultural and linguistic differences threatened to break apart the country. Contested Tongues explains the complex linguistic and cultural politics in a bilingual country where the two main languages are closely …
Defending the Border
Identity, Religion, and Modernity in the Republic of Georgia
Häftad, 2006
458 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book, one of the first in English about everyday life in the Republic of Georgia, describes how people construct identity in a rapidly changing border region. Based on extensive ethnographic research, it illuminates the myriad ways residents of the Caucasus have rethought who they are since …
How Russia Really Works
The Informal Practices That Shaped Post-Soviet Politics and Business
Häftad, 2006
400 kr
Lägg i varukorg
During the Soviet era, blat—the use of personal networks for obtaining goods and services in short supply and for circumventing formal procedures—was necessary to compensate for the inefficiencies of socialism. The collapse of the Soviet Union produced a new generation of informal practices. In How …
Communities of the Converted
Ukrainians and Global Evangelism
Häftad, 2007
502 kr
Lägg i varukorg
After decades of official atheism, a religious renaissance swept through much of the former Soviet Union beginning in the late 1980s. The Calvinist-like austerity and fundamentalist ethos that had evolved among sequestered and frequently persecuted Soviet evangelicals gave way to a charismatic …
Overkill
Sex and Violence in Contemporary Russian Popular Culture
Häftad, 2007
460 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Perestroika and the end of the Soviet Union transformed every aspect of life in Russia, and as hope began to give way to pessimism, popular culture came to reflect the anxiety and despair felt by more and more Russians. Free from censorship for the first time in Russia's history, the popular …
Old Faith and the Russian Land
A Historical Ethnography of Ethics in the Urals
Häftad, 2009
487 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The Old Faith and the Russian Land is a historical ethnography that charts the ebbs and flows of ethical practice in a small Russian town over three centuries. The town of Sepych was settled in the late seventeenth century by religious dissenters who fled to the forests of the Urals to escape a …
Captive and the Gift
Cultural Histories of Sovereignty in Russia and the Caucasus
Av Bruce Grant
Häftad, 2009
415 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The Caucasus region of Eurasia, wedged in between the Black and Caspian Seas, encompasses the modern territories of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, as well as the troubled republic of Chechnya in southern Russia. A site of invasion, conquest, and resistance since the onset of historical record, …
Patriotism of Despair
Nation, War, and Loss in Russia
Häftad, 2009
400 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The sudden dissolution of the Soviet Union altered the routines, norms, celebrations, and shared understandings that had shaped the lives of Russians for generations. It also meant an end to the state-sponsored, nonmonetary support that most residents had lived with all their lives. How did …
Not Quite Shamans
Spirit Worlds and Political Lives in Northern Mongolia
Häftad, 2011
473 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The forms of contemporary society and politics are often understood to be diametrically opposed to any expression of the supernatural; what happens when those forms are themselves regarded as manifestations of spirits and other occult phenomena? In Not Quite Shamans, Morten Axel Pedersen explores …
Border Work
Spatial Lives of the State in Rural Central Asia
Häftad, 2014
487 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Drawing on extensive and carefully designed ethnographic fieldwork in the Ferghana Valley region, where the state borders of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikizstan and Uzbekistan intersect, Madeleine Reeves develops new ways of conceiving the state as a complex of relationships, and of state borders as socially …
Unmaking of Soviet Life
Everyday Economies After Socialism
Häftad, 2002
415 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In order to understand today's Russia and former Soviet republics, it is vital to consider their socialist past. Caroline Humphrey, one of anthropology's most highly regarded thinkers on a number of topics including consumption, identity, and ritual, is the ideal guide to the intricacies of …
Vanishing Hectare
Property and Value in Postsocialist Transylvania
Häftad, 2003
546 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In most countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, the fall of communism opened up the possibility for individuals to acquire land. Based on Katherine Verdery's extensive fieldwork between 1990 and 2001, The Vanishing Hectare explores the importance of land and land ownership to the …
Russia Gets the Blues
Music, Culture, and Community in Unsettled Times
Häftad, 2004
445 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Michael Urban chronicles the advent of blues music in Russia and explores the significance of the genre in the turbulent, postcommunist society. Russians, he explains, have taken a music originating in the "low" culture of the American South and transformed it into an object of "high" culture, …
Empire of Nations
Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union
Häftad, 2005
415 kr
Lägg i varukorg
When the Bolsheviks seized power in 1917, they set themselves the task of building socialism in the vast landscape of the former Russian Empire, a territory populated by hundreds of different peoples belonging to a multitude of linguistic, religious, and ethnic groups. Before 1917, the Bolsheviks …
