Lifestyle in Siberia and the Russian North
by Joachim Otto Habeck
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Each contribution is drawn from meticulous first-hand field research, and the authors engage with theoretical questions such as whether and how the concept of lifestyle can be extended beyond its conventionally urban, Euro-American context and employed in a markedly different setting. Lifestyle in Siberia and the Russian North builds on the contributors' clear commitment to diversifying the field and providing a novel and intimate insight into this vast and dynamic region.
This book provides inspiring reading for students and teachers of Anthropology, Sociology and Cultural Studies and for anyone interested in Russia and its regions. By providing ethnographic case studies, it is also a useful basis for teaching anthropological methods and concepts, both at graduate and undergraduate level. Rigorous and innovative, it marks an important contribution to the study of Siberia and the Russian North. 
Book Description
Lifestyle in Siberia and the Russian North breaks new ground by exploring the concept of lifestyle from a distinctly anthropological perspective. Showcasing the collective work of ten experienced scholars in the field, the book goes beyond concepts of tradition that have often been the focus of previous research, to explain how political, economic and technological changes in Russia have created a wide range of new possibilities and constraints in the pursuit of different ways of life.Each contribution is drawn from meticulous first-hand field research, and the authors engage with theoretical questions such as whether and how the concept of lifestyle can be extended beyond its conventionally urban, Euro-American context and employed in a markedly different setting. Lifestyle in Siberia and the Russian North builds on the contributors' clear commitment to diversifying the field and providing a novel and intimate insight into this vast and dynamic region.
This book provides inspiring reading for students and teachers of Anthropology, Sociology and Cultural Studies and for anyone interested in Russia and its regions. By providing ethnographic case studies, it is also a useful basis for teaching anthropological methods and concepts, both at graduate and undergraduate level. Rigorous and innovative, it marks an important contribution to the study of Siberia and the Russian North.
This open book is licensed under a Creative Commons License (CC BY). You can download Lifestyle in Siberia and the Russian North ebook for free in PDF format (54.8 MB).
Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Introduction: Studying Lifestyle in Russia
Chapter 2
Implications of Infrastructure and Technological Change for Lifestyles in Siberia
Chapter 3
Lifestyle and Creative Engagement with Rural Space in Northwest Russia
Chapter 4
Holiday Convergences, Holiday Divergences: Siberian Leisure Mobilities Under Late Socialism and After
Chapter 5
Spatial imaginaries and personal topographies in Siberian life stories: analysing movement and place in biographical narratives
Chapter 6
Something like Happiness: Home Photography in the Inquiry of Lifestyles
Chapter 7
Soviet Kul'tura in Post-Soviet Identification: The Aesthetics of Ethnicity in Sakha (Yakutia)
Chapter 8
Ethnicity on the Move: National-Cultural Organisations in Siberia
Chapter 9
"We are not Playing Life, We Live Here": Playful Appropriation of Ancestral Memory in a Youth Camp in Western Siberia
Chapter 10
A Taste for Play: Lifestyle and Live-Action Role-playing in Siberia and the Russian Far East
Book Details
Title
Lifestyle in Siberia and the Russian North
Subject
Sociology and Social Sciences
Publisher
Open Book Publishers
Published
2019
Pages
490
Edition
1
Language
English
ISBN13
9781783747177
ISBN10
178374717X
ISBN13 Digital
9781783747191
ISBN10 Digital
1783747196
PDF Size
54.8 MB
License
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