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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Golubev, Alexey. The things of life Ithaca, [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2020. (DLC) 2020003685 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Alexey Golubev |
ISBN: | 9781501752902 1501752901 9781501752896 1501752898 |
OCLC Number: | 1139017080 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 220 pages) : illustrations |
Contents: | Introduction. Elemental Materialism in Soviet Culture and Society -- Techno-Utopian Visions of Soviet Intellectuals after Stalin -- Time in 1:72 Scale: The Plastic Historicity of Soviet Models -- History in Wood: The Search for Historical Authenticity in North Russia -- When Spaces of Transit Fail Their Designers: Social Antagonisms of Soviet Stairwells and Streets -- The Men of Steel: Repairing and Empowering Soviet Bodies with Iron -- Ordinary and Paranormal: The Soviet Television Set. |
Responsibility: | Alexey Golubev. |
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"Golubev (Univ. of Houston) has produced a provocative work on materiality in the late Soviet period. The study analyzes the role of material objects and spaces in the development of gender roles, social structures, and the socialist ideal in the last decades of the Soviet Union." * Choice * "Golubev's book contributes to a more nuanced understanding of late-Soviet everyday life. [T]his analytical intervention makes Golubev's book a valuable resource for anthropologists working with materialities and their interfaces with selves and bodies." * Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford * "The Things of Life is provocative, tantalizing and stimulating, and it fully achieves its aim of showing the importance and creative potential of centring the material at the heart of human experience." * Slavonic and East European Review * "[A] highly readable text and an ideal integration of theory, empiricism, and narrative. This book lends itself well to teaching and is a welcome addition to our knowledge of late Soviet society, thoroughly researched and theorized, yet accessibly written in a lively tone." * The Russian Review * "Golubev's book stands in a rich tradition of investigating the social agency of things and the entanglements between humans and objects in Soviet Russia and other European socialist countries. Golubev's book is certainly a welcome addition to the academic literature on (post)soviet materiality." * Technology and Culture * Read more...


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- Material culture -- Soviet Union.
- Space -- Social aspects -- Soviet Union.
- Soviet Union -- Social life and customs.
- Culture matérielle -- URSS.
- Espace -- Aspect social -- URSS.
- URSS -- Mœurs et coutumes.
- HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
- Manners and customs.
- Material culture.
- Soviet Union.