The Life Cycle of Russian Things
From Fish Guts to Fabergé, 1600 - Present
The Life Cycle of Russian Things
From Fish Guts to Fabergé, 1600 - Present
Description
The Life Cycle of Russian Things re-orients commodity studies using interdisciplinary and comparative methods to foreground unique Russian and Soviet materials as varied as apothecary wares, isinglass, limestone and tanks. It also transforms modernist and Western interpretations of the material by emphasizing the commonalities of the Russian experience.
Expert contributors from across the United States, Canada, Britain, and Germany come together to situate Russian material culture studies at an interdisciplinary crossroads. Drawing upon theory from anthropology, history, and literary and museum studies, the volume presents a complex narrative, not only in terms of material consumption but also in terms of production and the secondary life of inheritance, preservation, or even destruction. In doing so, the book reconceptualises material culture as a lived experience of sensory interaction. The Life Cycle of Russian Things sheds new light on economic history and consumption studies by reflecting the diversity of Russia's experiences over the last 400 years.
Table of Contents
The Life Cycle of Russian Things: An Introduction, Matthew P. Romaniello (Weber State University, USA), Alison K. Smith (University of Toronto, Canada), and Tricia Starks (University of Arkansas, USA)
Part I - Transforming Things
1. Immateriality and Intermateriality: The Vanishing Centrality of Apothecary Wares in 17th-Century Russian Medicine, Clare Griffin (Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan)
2. Transnational Information, Local Commodity: Lime and Limestone in the 18th and 19th Centuries, Alison K. Smith (University of Toronto, Canada)
3. Underground Materials: The (Un-)making of Samizdat Texts, Ann Komaromi (University of Toronto, Canada)
Part II - Making Things
4. Making Fish Guts into Isinglass and Glue, Matthew P. Romaniello (Weber State University, USA)
5. Weaving a Strong Cloth: Textiles on the Chikhachev Estate in 1830s Vladimir Province, Katherine Pickering Antonova (CUNY, Queen's College, USA)
6. Sugar as a 'Basic Necessity': State Efforts to Supply the Russian Empire's Population in the Early 20th Century, Charles Steinwedel (Northeastern Illinois University, USA)
Part III - Touching Things
7. Making Samovars Russian, Audra Yoder (Independent Scholar)
8. 'Constant Companions': Fabergé Tobacco Cases and Sensory Prompts to Addiction in Late Imperial Russia, Tricia Starks (University of Arkansas, USA)
9. Socialism in One Tank: The T-34 as Microcosm, Brandon Schechter (New York University, USA)
Part IV - Preserving Things
10. Binding Siberia: Semen Remezov's Khorograficheskaia Kniga in Time and Through Time, Erika Monahan (University of New Mexico, USA)
11. 'Rather Poor and Threadbare': Scratching Woman, Bogoraz, and a Shaman's Coat at the American Museum of Natural History, Marisa Franz Karyl (New York University, USA)
12. Art Protection in the Second World War, Ulrike Schmiegelt-Rietig (Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation, Germany)
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Product details
| Published | 09 Sep 2021 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 264 |
| ISBN | 9781350186033 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 17 bw illus |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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