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Introduction -- State : deferral, difference and diffusion -- Power : time and the other -- Site : nesting hierarchies, nesting orientalism, and capitalism as "the other" -- Making wildness and empire : from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century -- Russian Iasak over Central Siberia -- Politics of gift and tribute -- Meanings of lawlessness -- The Katonga area at the turn of the twentieth century -- Recording social categories -- The fur trade, 1900-1917 -- Primitive communists on the Podkamennaia Tunguska River -- Constructing Soviet meetings -- "Ethnographic principle" as a knowledge practice -- Siberian social organization in early Soviet scholarship -- Designing clan Soviets -- Structuralist politics -- After capitalism : the tenacious visibility of the "old regime" in the early Soviet politics of difference -- Unmasking and uprooting -- The Soviet "ethnographic present-perfect" -- Second nature in the mirror of social constructivism -- Ethnography and reporting -- Class origin as genealogy -- The "eye," the socialist "I," and the capitalist "he" in the Soviet ethnographic present perfect -- Poetics of unfinished construction -- The visibility of the state -- Vanishing as unfinished construction -- The economy of labor shortage -- Expansion in the economy of shortage -- Poetics of development as employment -- Poetics of unfinished construction -- From state orphans to children of nature -- Boarding school -- Fosterage and apprenticeship -- Distinction and proper place -- Social life of the state : commands -- Social life of the state : call-signs and nicknames -- Narratives of autonomy -- Mothering tradition -- Surrogate workers and modes of production -- Female workers in the Katonga collective -- The making of professional housewives : Katonga -- The making of professional housewives : theory -- The social space of traditionalism -- The specter of domesticity and the invention of tradition -- Conclusion. |
