The life cycle of Russian things : from fish guts to Faberg̐ue, 1600-present / edited by Matthew P. Romaniello, Alison K. Smith, and Tricia Starks.
| Other author/creator | Smith, Alison Karen, editor, author. |
| Other author/creator | Romaniello, Matthew P., editor, author. |
| Other author/creator | Starks, Tricia, 1969- editor, author. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. |
| Copyright Notice | ̐u2022 |
| Description | x, 248 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
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| Contents | Immateriality and intermateriality: the vanishing centrality of apothecary ware in Russian medicine / Clare Griffin -- Lime and limestone in eighteenth-century Russia / Alison K. Smith -- Underground materials: the (un)making of samizdat texts / Ann Komaromi -- Making fish guts into isinglass and glue / Matthew P. Romaniello -- The thickness of a plaid: textiles on the Chikhachev estate in 1830s Vladimir Province / Katherine Pickering Antonova -- Sugar as a "basic necessity": state efforts to supply the Russian Empire's population in the early twentieth century / Charles R. Steinwedel -- Making samovars Russian / Audra Yoder -- 'Constant companions': Faberg̐ue tobacco cases and sensory prompts to addiction / Tricia Starks -- Socialism in one tank: the T-34 as a microcosm / Brandon Schechter -- Binding Siberia: Semen Remezov's Khorograficheskaia kniga in time and through time / Erika Monahan -- 'Rather poor and threadbare': Borogaz, scratching woman, and the intimacy of material / Marisa Karyl Franz -- 'Kunstschutz' in the war of annihilation or the power of images against ideology / Ulrike Schmiegelt-Rietig. |
| Abstract | "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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Life cycle of Russian things First edition. London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021 9781350186033 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2021012902 |
| ISBN | 9781350186026 |
| ISBN | 1350186023 hardback |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
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