Red Ties and Residential Schools : Indigenous Siberians in a Post-Soviet State / Alexia Bloch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bloch, Alexia, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Russia (Federation)--Ėvenkiĭskiĭ avtonomnyĭ okrug.

Ethnology.

Evenki (Asian people)--Education--Russia (Federation)--Ėvenkiĭskiĭ avtonomnyĭ okrug--History.

Evenki (Asian people).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 pages) : illustrations, map

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In this book Alexia Bloch examines the experiences of a community of Evenki, an indigenous group in central Siberia, to consider the place of residential schooling inidentity politics in contemporary Russia. Residential schools established in the 1920s brought Siberians under the purview of the Soviet state, and Bloch demonstrates how in the post-Soviet era, a time of jarring social change, these schools continue to embody the salience of Soviet cultural practices and the spirit of belonging to a collective. She explores how Evenk intellectuals are endowing residential schools with new symbolic power and turning them into a locus for political mobilization.In contrast to the binary model of oppressed/oppressor underlying many accounts of state/indigenous relations, Bloch's work provides a complex picture of the experiences of Siberians in Soviet and post-Soviet society. Bloch's research, conducted in a central Siberian town during the 1990s, is ethnographically grounded in life stories recorded with Evenk women; surveys of households navigating histories of collectivization and recent, rampant privatization; and in residential schools and in museums, both central to Evenk identity politics.While considering how residential schools once targeted marginalized reindeer herders, especially young girls, for socialization and assimilation, Bloch reveals how class, region, and gendered experience currently influence perspectives on residential schooling. The analysis centers on the ways vehicles of the Soviet state have been reworked and still sometimes embraced by members of an indigenous community as they forge new identities and allegiances in the post-Soviet era.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Note on Transliteration and Translation

Preface

Introduction

1. Central Peripheries and Peripheral Centers: Evenki Crafting Identities over Time

2. A Siberian Town in the 1990s: Balancing Privatization and Collectivist Values

3. Red Ties and Residential School: Evenk Women's Narratives and Reconsidering Resistance

4. Young Women Between the Market and the Collective

5. Inside the Residential School: Cultural Revitalization and the Leninist Program

6. Taiga Kids, Incubator Kids, and Intellectuals

7. Representing Culture: Museums, Material Culture, and Doing the Lambada

8. Revitalizing the Collective in a Market Era

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-226) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780812293623

0812293622

OCLC:

966902944