Two Lenins A Brief Anthropology of Time / Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ssorin-Chaikov, Nikolai, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (170 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, IL USA : HAU Books, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Highly innovative and theoretically incisive, Two Lenins is the first book-length anthropological examination of how social reality can be organized around different yet concurrent ideas of time. Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov grounds his theoretical exploration in fascinating ethnographic and historical material on two Lenins: the first is the famed Soviet leader of the early twentieth century, and the second is a Siberian Evenki hunterâ€"nicknamed “Leninâ€_x009d_â€"who experienced the collapse of the USSR during the 1990s. Through their intertwined stories, Ssorin-Chaikov unveils new dimensions of ethnographic reality by multiplying our notions of time. Ssorin-Chaikov examines Vladimir Lenin at the height of his reign in 1920s Soviet Russia, focusing especially on his relationship with American businessperson Armand Hammer. He casts this scene against the second Leninâ€"the hunter on the far end of the country, in Siberia, at the far end of the century, the 1990s, who is tasked with improvising postsocia

Contents:

Chapter 1 "You will be as Gods" 1

Chapter 2 Lenin and the combined fodder 19

Chapter 3 An American in Moscow 39

Chapter 4 Time for the field diary 69

Chapter 5 Hobbes' gift 95

Chapter 6 Modernity as time 121.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2017: Front list Collection

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 101685

ISBN:

9780997367539