Russian Culture Michael Washburn

Russian Culture Michael WashburnThis volume brings together two classic works on the culture of the Russian people which have been long out of print. Gorer's Great Russian Culture and Mead's Soviet Attitudes towards Authority: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Problems of Soviet Character were among the first attempts by anthropologists to analyze Russian society. They were influential both for several generations of anthropologists and in shaping American governmental attitudes

Pursues a 'devolving' landscape in order to consider what an analysis of 'dwelling' might contribute to the travelling theories of diaspora discourse and asks what happens when we 'situate' literatures of movement and migration

This chapter reviews the current situation of such protected vegetable production around the world

with its rich rhythms of rural life

The protein product is derived from the sustainable fuel bioethanol production process and as a derivative of an industrial process is not in direct competition with food production

that ideologies which oppress women are removed only by prolonged struggle-and then only after fundamental political and social changes have been made

New York has been a hotbed of innovation since its founding

It provides a fresh account of modernity from a transnational perspective

identified on his return in 1945 as the ‘concentrationary universe’ which

and Gadamer

This book reflects the magic

Several chapters discuss the social and environmental impact of mass tourism

capturing its poignant ambivalence as a postcolonial territory on the fringe of China