Soviet official culture underwent a dramatic shift in the mid-1930s, when Stalin and his fellow leaders began to promote conventional norms, patriarchal families, tsarist heroes, and Russian literary classics. For Leon Trotsky—and many later commentators—this apparent embrace of bourgeois values marked a betrayal of the October Revolution and a retreat from socialism. In the first book to address these developments fully, David L. Hoffmann argues that, far from reversing direction, the Stalinist leadership remained committed to remaking both individuals and society—and used selected elements of traditional culture to bolster the socialist order. Melding original archival research with new scholarship in the field, Hoffmann describes Soviet cultural and behavioral norms in such areas as leisure activities, social hygiene, family life, and sexuality. He demonstrates that the Soviet state's campaign to effect social improvement by intervening in the lives of its citizens was not unique but echoed the efforts of other European governments, both fascist and liberal, in the interwar period. Indeed, in Europe, America, and Stalin's Russia, governments sought to inculcate many of the same values—from order and efficiency to sobriety and literacy. For Hoffmann, what remains distinctive about the Soviet case is the collectivist orientation of official culture and the degree of coercion the state applied to pursue its goals.
Описание: This book looks at representations of the male body, sexuality and power in the arts in Mexico. It analyses literature, visual art and cinema produced from the 1870s to the present, focusing on the Porfirian regime, the Post-revolutionary era, the decadence of the revolutionary state and the emergence of the neo-liberal order in the 1980s.
In Driving toward Modernity, Jun Zhang ethnographically explores the entanglement between the rise of the automotive regime and emergence of the middle class in South China. Focusing on the Pearl River Delta, one of the nation's wealthiest regions, Zhang shows how private cars have shaped everyday middle-class sociality, solidarity, and subjectivity, and how the automotive regime has helped make the new middle classes of the PRC. By carefully analyzing how physical and social mobility intertwines, Driving toward Modernity paints a nuanced picture of modern Chinese life, comprising the continuity and rupture as well as the structure and agency of China's great transformation.
Dilemmas of Modernity provides an innovative approach to the study of contemporary Bolivia, moving telescopically between social, political, legal, and discursive analyses, and drawing from a range of disciplinary traditions. Based on a decade of research, it offers an account of local encounters with law and liberalism. Mark Goodale presents, through a series of finely grained readings, a window into the lives of people in rural areas of Latin America who are playing a crucial role in the emergence of postcolonial states.
The book contends that the contemporary Bolivian experience is best understood by examining historical patterns of intention as they emerge from everyday practices. It provides a compelling case study of the appropriation and reconstruction of transnational law at the local level, and gives key insights into this important South American country.
Автор: Silverstein B. Название: Islam and Modernity in Turkey ISBN: 1349292338 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349292332 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 11788.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Islam and Modernity in Turkey addresses these questions through an ethnographic study of Islamic discourses and practices and their articulation with mass media in Turkey, against the background of late Ottoman and early Republican precedents.
Описание: As oil-rich countries in the Middle East are increasingly associated with soaring skyscrapers and modern architecture, attention is being diverted away from the pervasive struggles of social housing in those same urban settings. Social Housing in the Middle East traces the history of social housing—both gleaming postmodern projects and bare-bones urban housing structures—in an effort to provide a wider understanding of marginalized spaces and their impact on identities, communities, and class. While architects may have envisioned utopian or futuristic experiments, these buildings were often constructed with the knowledge and skill sets of local workers, and the housing was in turn adapted to suit the modern needs of residents. This tension between local needs and national aspirations are linked to issues of global importance, including security, migration, and refugee resettlement. The essays collected here consider how culture, faith, and politics influenced the solutions offered by social housing; they provide an insightful look at how social housing has evolved since the 19th century and how it will need to adapt to suit the 21st.
Описание: This comparative study of African and Hindu popular religions in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago charts the development of religion in the Caribbean by analysing the ways ecstatic forms of worship, enacted through trance performance and spirit mediumship, have adapted to capitalism and reconfigured themselves within the context of modernity.
Astana, the capital city of the post-Soviet Kazakhstan, has often been admired for the design and planning of its futuristic cityscape. This anthropological study of the development of the city focuses on every-day practices, official ideologies and representations alongside the memories and dreams of the city's longstanding residents and recent migrants. Critically examining a range of approaches to place and space in anthropology, geography and other disciplines, the book argues for an understanding of space as inextricably material-and-imaginary, and unceasingly dynamic - allowing for a plurality of incompatible pasts and futures materialized in spatial form.
Описание: Less than a half century ago, China experienced a cataclysmic famine, which was particularly devastating in the countryside. This book examines the role of food in one rural Chinese community, as it has shaped everyday lives over the course of several tumultuous decades.
Описание: Chapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Anthropology of Borders and Borderlands in Turkey 2.1. Studies on Borders and Borderlands in Turkey 2.1.1. Economy and Trade in the Turkish Border Regions 2.1.2. Border Determination, Management and Security 2.1.3. Society, History and Memory Chapter 3. The Making 3.1. Political Borders in Turkish State Discourses 3.2. The First Signifiers: Border Markers 3.3. Barbed Wire 3.4. Landmines 3.5. Watch Towers 3.6. Gendarmerie Stations and Soldiers 3.7. Border Gates Chapter 4. The Unmaking 4.1. Local Knowledge and Landscape 4.2. Border Crossings4.2.1. Smuggling 4.2.2. Rite of Passage4.2.3. Networks4.2.4. Fear, Death and Destiny 4.3. Women, Mined Zone and Daily Life 4.4. Landmine and the Body 4.5. Caper Plant: Healing or Slaying? 4.6. Grass and GameChapter 5. The Final Phase: The Turkish Security Wall 5.1. The Idea of the Security Wall 5.2. The Making of the Wall 5.3. The Unmaking: Underground TunnelsChapter 6. Concluding Remarks
Описание: Chapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Anthropology of Borders and Borderlands in Turkey 2.1. Studies on Borders and Borderlands in Turkey 2.1.1. Economy and Trade in the Turkish Border Regions 2.1.2. Border Determination, Management and Security 2.1.3. Society, History and Memory Chapter 3. The Making 3.1. Political Borders in Turkish State Discourses 3.2. The First Signifiers: Border Markers 3.3. Barbed Wire 3.4. Landmines 3.5. Watch Towers 3.6. Gendarmerie Stations and Soldiers 3.7. Border Gates Chapter 4. The Unmaking 4.1. Local Knowledge and Landscape 4.2. Border Crossings4.2.1. Smuggling 4.2.2. Rite of Passage4.2.3. Networks4.2.4. Fear, Death and Destiny 4.3. Women, Mined Zone and Daily Life 4.4. Landmine and the Body 4.5. Caper Plant: Healing or Slaying? 4.6. Grass and GameChapter 5. The Final Phase: The Turkish Security Wall 5.1. The Idea of the Security Wall 5.2. The Making of the Wall 5.3. The Unmaking: Underground TunnelsChapter 6. Concluding Remarks
Автор: Jorgensen Darren, McLean Ian Название: Indigenous Archives: The Making and Unmaking of Aboriginal Art ISBN: 1742589227 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781742589220 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 7355.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In recording and ordering documents considered important, the archive is a source of power. It takes control of the past, deciding which voices will be heard and which won't, how they will be heard and for what purpose. Indigenous communities understood the power of the archive well before the European Enlightenment arrived and began recording information about the people they colonized. For these Indigenous people, colonialism has been a struggle over archives as much as anything else. The eighteen essays by twenty authors, seven of whom are Indigenous, investigate different aspects of this struggle in Australia, from Indigenous uses of traditional archives and the development of new ones to the deconstruction and appropriation of European archives by contemporary artists as acts of cultural empowerment. Indigenous Archives also examines the uses of archives that were developed for other reasons, but can be used as a means to reconstruct the lives of artists and the meanings of their art, such as the use of rainfall records to interpret early Papunya paintings. This book is the first overview examining the role of archives in the production and understanding of Indigenous culture. Wide-ranging in its scope, it reveals the lively state of research into Indigenous histories and culture in Australia. Subject: Art History, Cultural Studies, Indigenous Studies, Sociology]
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