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Solovyovo

Solovyovo
Author: Margaret Paxson
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2005-12-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780253218018

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The result is a compelling ethnography of a Russian village, the first of its kind in modern, North American anthropology.


Solovyovo

Solovyovo
Author: Margaret Paxson
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2005-12-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780253002594

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In a small village beside a reed-lined lake in the Russian north, a cluster of farmers has lived for centuries -- in the time of tsars and feudal landlords; Bolsheviks and civil wars; collectivization and socialism; perestroika and open markets. Solovyovo is about the place and power of social memory. Based on extensive anthropological fieldwork in that single village, it shows how villagers configure, transmit, and enact social memory through narrative genres, religious practice, social organization, commemoration, and the symbolism of space. Margaret Paxson relates present-day beliefs, rituals, and practices to the remembered traditions articulated by her informants. She brings to life the everyday social and agricultural routines of the villagers as well as holiday observances, religious practices, cosmology, beliefs and practices surrounding health and illness, the melding of Orthodox and communist traditions and their post-Soviet evolution, and the role of the yearly calendar in regulating village lives. The result is a compelling ethnography of a Russian village, the first of its kind in modern, North American anthropology.


The Plateau

The Plateau
Author: Maggie Paxson
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2019-08-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1594634750

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Winner of the American Library in Paris Book Award Named a Best Book of 2019 by BookPage During World War II, French villagers offered safe harbor to countless strangers—mostly children—as they fled for their lives. The same place offers refuge to migrants today. Why? In a remote pocket of Nazi-held France, ordinary people risked their lives to rescue many hundreds of strangers, mostly Jewish children. Was this a fluke of history, or something more? Anthropologist Maggie Paxson, certainties shaken by years of studying strife, arrives on the Plateau to explore this phenomenon: What are the traits that make a group choose selflessness? In this beautiful, wind-blown place, Paxson discovers a tradition of offering refuge that dates back centuries. But it is the story of a distant relative that provides the beacon for which she has been searching. Restless and idealistic, Daniel Trocmé had found a life of meaning and purpose—or it found him—sheltering a group of children on the Plateau, until the Holocaust came for him, too. Paxson's journey into past and present turns up new answers, new questions, and a renewed faith in the possibilities for us all, in an age when global conflict has set millions adrift. Riveting, multilayered, and intensely personal, The Plateau is a deeply inspiring journey into the central conundrum of our time.


The Russia Reader

The Russia Reader
Author: Adele Marie Barker
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 793
Release: 2010-07-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 0822346486

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An introduction to the history, culture, and politics of the worlds largest country, from the earliest written accounts of the Russian people to today.


Solovyov and Larionov

Solovyov and Larionov
Author: Eugene Vodolazkin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2018-11-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1786070367

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Can we ever really understand the present without first understanding the past? From the winner of the 2019 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Prize, and the author of the multi-award winning Laurus, comes a sweeping novel that takes readers on a fascinating journey through one of the most momentous periods in Russian history. What really happened to General Larionov of the Imperial Russian Army, who somehow avoided execution by the Bolsheviks? He lived out his long life in Yalta leaving behind a vast heritage of undiscovered memoirs. In modern day Russia, a young student is determined to find out the truth. Solovyov and Larionov is a ground-breaking and gripping literary detective novel from one of Russia's greatest contemporary writers.


Dilemmas of Diversity After the Cold War

Dilemmas of Diversity After the Cold War
Author: Michele R. Rivkin-Fish
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2010
Genre: History
ISBN: 1933549920

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Promoting Heritage Language in Northwest Russia

Promoting Heritage Language in Northwest Russia
Author: Laura Siragusa
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2017-10-19
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1351622072

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This volume illustrates how language revival movements in Russia and elsewhere have often followed a specific pattern of literacy bias in the promotion of a minority’s heritage language, partly neglecting the social and relational aspects of orality. Using the Vepsian Renaissance as an example, this volume brings to the surface a literacy-orality dualism new to the discussion around revival movements. In addition to the more-theoretically oriented scopes, this book addresses all the actors involved in revival movements including activists, scholars and policy-makers, and opens a discussion on literacy and orality, and power and agency in the multiple relational aspects of written and oral practices. This study addresses issues common to language revival movements worldwide and will appeal to researchers of linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, education and language policy, and culture studies.


Corridor Talk to Culture History

Corridor Talk to Culture History
Author: Regna Darnell
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2015-11-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0803286600

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The Histories of Anthropology Annual series presents diverse perspectives on the discipline's history within a global context, with a goal of increasing awareness and use of historical approaches in teaching, learning, and doing anthropology. Critical, comparative, analytical, and narrative studies involving all aspects and subfields of anthropology are included. This ninth volume of the series, Corridor Talk to Culture History showcases geographic diversity by exploring how anthropologists have presented their methods and theories to the public and in general to a variety of audiences. Contributors examine interpretive and methodological diversity within anthropological traditions often viewed from the standpoint of professional consensus, the ways anthropological relations cross disciplinary boundaries, and the contrast between academic authority and public culture, which is traced to the professionalization of anthropology and other social sciences in the nineteenth century. Essays showcase the research and personalities of Alexander Goldenweiser, Robert Lowie, Harlan I. Smith, Fustel de Coulanges, Edmund Leach, Carl Withers, and Margaret Mead, among others.


Post-Soviet Nostalgia

Post-Soviet Nostalgia
Author: Otto Boele
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2019-07-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000507297

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Bringing together scholars from Russia, the United States and Europe, this collection of essays is the first to explore the slippery phenomenon of post-Soviet nostalgia by studying it as a discursive practice serving a wide variety of ideological agendas. The authors demonstrate how feelings of loss and displacement in post-Soviet Russia are turned into effective tools of state building and national mobilization, as well as into weapons for local resistance and the assertion of individual autonomy. Drawing on novels, memoirs, documentaries, photographs and Soviet commodities, Post-Soviet Nostalgia is an invaluable resource for historians, literary scholars and anthropologists interested in how Russia comes to terms with its Soviet past.


Soviet Literature

Soviet Literature
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1254
Release: 1985
Genre: Russian literature
ISBN:

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