The life cycle of Russian things : from fish guts to Fabergé, 1600-present / edited by Matthew P. Romaniello, Alison K. Smith, and Tricia Starks.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Alison Karen, editor, author.

Romaniello, Matthew P., editor, author.

Starks, Tricia, 1969- editor, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Material culture--Russia--History.

Material culture.

Material culture--Soviet Union--History.

Material culture--Russia (Federation)--History.

Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects--History.

Consumption (Economics).

Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects.

Manners and customs.

History.

Russia--Social life and customs.

Russia.

Soviet Union--Social life and customs.

Soviet Union.

Russia (Federation)--Social life and customs.

Russia (Federation).

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 248 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Transforming Things

1. Immateriality and Intermateriality: The Vanishing Centrality of Apothecary Ware in Russian Medicine / Clare Griffin

2. Lime and Limestone in Eighteenth-Century Russia / Alison K. Smith

3. Underground Materials: The (Un)making of Samizdat Texts / Ann Komaromi

pt. 2 Making Things

4. Making Fish Guts into Isinglass and Glue / Matthew P. Romaniello

5. The Thickness of a Plaid: Textiles on the Chikhachev Estate in 1830s Vladimir Province / Katherine Pickering Antonova

6. Sugar as a "Basic Necessity": State Efforts to Supply the Russian Empire's Population in the Early Twentieth Century / Charles Steinwedel

pt. 3 Touching Things

7. Making Samovars Russian / Audra Yoder

8. "Constant Companions": Faberge Tobacco Cases and Sensory Prompts to Addiction in Late Imperial Russia / Tricia Starks

9. Socialism in One Tank: The T-34 as a Microcosm / Brandon Schechter

pt. 4 Preserving Things

10. Binding Siberia: Semen Remezov's Khorograficheskaia Kniga in Time and through Time / Erika Monahan

11. "Rather Poor and Threadbare": Bogoras, Scratching-Woman, and the Intimacy of Material / Marisa Karyl Franz

12. "Kunstschutz" in the War of Annihilation or the Power of Images against Ideology / Ulrike Schmiegelt-Rietig.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Life cycle of Russian things

ISBN:

9781350186026

1350186023

OCLC:

1245250325

Publisher Number:

99988764079