This collection of studies uses the processes of analysis and self-analysis to...This collection of studies uses the processes of analysis and self-analysis to examine the social political and spiritual forces at work in the post-Soviet world. The text includes discussions of ethnohistory political anthropology and ethnic...more
Material Culture in Russia and the USSR comprises some of the most cutting-edg...Material Culture in Russia and the USSR comprises some of the most cutting-edge scholarship across anthropology history and material and cultural studies relating to Russia and the Soviet Union from Peter the Great to Putin.Material culture in...more
Drawing on Reichard’s own writings and correspondence this book provides an ...Drawing on Reichard’s own writings and correspondence this book provides an intimate picture of her small-town upbringing the professional challenges she faced in male-centered institutions and her quietly revolutionary contributions to anthropology.more
Constructing Race on the Borders of Europe investigates the visual imagery of ...Constructing Race on the Borders of Europe investigates the visual imagery of race construction in Scandinavia Austro-Hungary Germany and Russia. It covers a period when historic disciplines of ethnography and anthropology were expanding and...more
...a scholar with extensive knowledge of indigenous life in the Canadian North......a scholar with extensive knowledge of indigenous life in the Canadian North has compiled a valuable and timely compendium on how Native societies from the Arctic to Australia use new media technologies to reinforce local cultures and establish...more
Totaling approximately 40 000 objects the University Museum s ethnographic hol...Totaling approximately 40 000 objects the University Museum s ethnographic holdings represent native peoples from ten North American culture areas--the Arctic Subarctic Northwest Coast California Plateau Great Basin Southwest Great Plains Northeast...more
In Memory Eternal Sergei Kan combines anthropology and history anecdote and th...In Memory Eternal Sergei Kan combines anthropology and history anecdote and theory to portray the encounter between the Tlingit Indians and the Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska in the late 1700s and to analyze the indigenous Orthodoxy that...more
Combining concepts and methodologies fromanthropology history linguistics lit...Combining concepts and methodologies from anthropology history linguistics literature music cultural studies and film studies this collection of ten original essays addresses issues crucial to gender and national identity in Russia from the October...more
In order to understand today s Russia and former Soviet republics it is vital ...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...more
C. Richard King is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Drake University. He...C. Richard King is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Drake University. He is the author of Colonial Discourses Collective Memories and the Exhibition of Native American Cultures and Histories in the Contemporary United States. Charles Fruehling...more
The making of modern Ukrainian identity is often reduced to a choice between L...The making of modern Ukrainian identity is often reduced to a choice between Little Russia and Ukraine. In this collection of essays Zenon Kohut shows that the process was much more complex involving Western influences and native traditions that...more
This volume offers a rich and informative introduction to North American archa...This volume offers a rich and informative introduction to North American archaeology for all those interested in the history and culture of North American natives. Organized around central topics and debates within the discipline. Illustrated with...more
By combining their expertise in English literature and anthropology Ibrahim Mu...By combining their expertise in English literature and anthropology Ibrahim Muhawi and Sharif Kanaana bring to these folktales an integral method of study that unites a sensitivity to language with a deep appreciation for culture. As native...more
Introduction to Wisconsin Indians is intended for use as a college-level textb...Introduction to Wisconsin Indians is intended for use as a college-level textbook. It combines history archaeology and anthropology in a discussion that traces the movements and culture of Native Americans through the area now known as Wisconsin.more