Notions of culture, rituals and their meanings, the workings of ideology in everyday life, public representations of tradition and ethnicity, and the social consequences of economic transition-- these are critical issues in the social anthropology of Russia and other postsociali…
"Notions of culture, rituals and their meanings, the workings of ideology in everyday life, public representations of tradition and ethnicity, and the social consequences of economic transition-- these are critical issues in the social anthropology of Russia and other postsocial…
Türklük ve şamanlık
by Andaç, T., Uğurlu, N., Radloff, Wilhelm, Temir, A., İnan, Abdülkadir, Köprülü, Mehmet Fuat
Türklük ve şamanlık
by Andaç, T., Uğurlu, N., Radloff, Wilhelm, Temir, A., İnan, Abdülkadir, Köprülü, Mehmet Fuat
"Mixed Messages shows how media in the Russian Federation's Buryat territories create a minority language public that plays an outsized role in ethnonational politics, but that nonetheless is rapidly shrinking and struggling to redefine itself in a new global era"--
"Mixed Messages shows how media in the Russian Federation's Buryat territories create a minority language public that plays an outsized role in ethnonational politics, but that nonetheless is rapidly shrinking and struggling to redefine itself in a new global era"--
"Mixed Messages shows how media in the Russian Federation's Buryat territories create a minority language public that plays an outsized role in ethnonational politics, but that nonetheless is rapidly shrinking and struggling to redefine itself in a new global era"--
"This book takes readers to the village of Sheltozero in northern Russia. It highlights a tiny community of indigenous people called Veps, known colloquially as "the forest folks" for their intense closeness and affiliation with the forests in their ancestral territories. Davido…
Nowhere have recent environmental and social changes been more pronounced than in post-Soviet Siberia. Donatas Brandisauskas probes the strategies that Orochen reindeer herders of southeastern Siberia have developed to navigate these changes. 'Catching luck' is one such strategy…
Landscape and Culture in Northern Eurasia
by Jordan, Peter, Jordan, Peter
fromUNIV COL LONDON INST ARCH PUB
This unique volume aims to break down the lingering linguistic boundaries that continue to divide up the circumpolar world, to move beyond ethnographic 'thick description' to integrate the study of northern Eurasian hunting and herding societies more effectively by encouraging i…
