A moving and unsettling ethnography of veterans living under the shadow of ongoing war and militarism, War and the Pull of Life traces how war makes its way into daily life in Putin's Russia. Based on research in St. Petersburg, the book describes how war veterans struggle to "find a place" for themselves and their wartime experiences in language, ......
A moving and unsettling ethnography of veterans living under the shadow of ongoing war and militarism, War and the Pull of Life traces how war makes its way into daily life in Putin's Russia. Based on research in St. Petersburg, the book describes how war veterans struggle to "find a place" for themselves and their wartime experiences in language, ......
Women, Religion, and Ethnicity in the American South
An exploration of an embodied, practice-centered, and continuous process through which Orthodox Christian women in the American South cultivate a compelling religious womanhood. Becoming Orthodox is a multi-lingual, ethnographic study of two Orthodox Christian communities in the U.S. Utilizing interview material, participant observation, and ......
Women, Religion, and Ethnicity in the American South
An exploration of an embodied, practice-centered, and continuous process through which Orthodox Christian women in the American South cultivate a compelling religious womanhood. Becoming Orthodox is a multi-lingual, ethnographic study of two Orthodox Christian communities in the U.S. Utilizing interview material, participant observation, and ......
Aleksandr Aleksandrov, Transsexuality, and Imperial Russia
Aleksandr Aleksandrov was an author and soldier in service of the Russian tsar, active in the Prussian theater of the War of the Fourth Coalition (1806-7) and in the Napoleonic wars. In scholarship, he is better known by his birth name, Nadezhda Andreevna Durova, and often referred to with the female pronouns bestowed upon him at birth. In this ......
Paper Bridges Between Franz Boas and Russian Anthropology
Anthropology is inseparable from writing, whether in field diaries, letters, articles, or books. Among these writings, letters form paper bridges-holding a special place as material artifacts uniquely capable of building scholarly communities and sustaining relationships with field collaborators long after the fieldwork is completed. The story of ......
Space, Nuclear Weapons, and US-Russia Relations After the Cold War
Russian officials and experts often voice the view that the United States was hell-bent on undermining, even destroying Russia during the turbulent period of the Soviet breakup thirty years ago. The primary US goal, in this telling, was to expand NATO to Russia's borders to isolate and threaten the Russian state. Rose Gottemoeller, drawing from ......
As the Iron Curtain fell and Cold War suspicions thickened in the second half of the twentieth century, the quintessentially American genre of rock and roll, seen as a potent symbol and product of an enemy ideology, quickly became a clandestine import in the USSR. The Soviet underground embraced the forbidden sounds, despite official propaganda ......
This path breaking study is the first biography in any language of the Russian industrialist, entrepreneur, and political leader Nikolai Fedorovich von Ditmar (1865-1919). Scion of a Baltic German noble family, von Ditmar studied physical sciences with the famous chemist Dmitrii Mendeleev and pursued a career as a railway engineer before ......
