Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xxiii, 235 pages : illustrations, 1 map; 24 cm

Summary

1. "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 in identity 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." "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 sometimes still embraced by members of an indigenous community as they forge new identities and allegiances in the post-Soviet era."--Jacket.

Subject

1. Gemeinschaft Unabhängiger Staaten
2. 1990-2000
3. Evenki (Asian people) > Education > History. > Russia (Federation) > Ėvenkiĭskiĭ avtonomnyĭ okrug
4. Ethnology > Russia (Federation) > Ėvenkiĭskiĭ avtonomnyĭ okrug
5. 15.75 history of Asia
6. Ethnology
7. Indigenes Volk
8. Russia (Federation) > Ėvenkiĭskiĭ avtonomnyĭ okrug
9. Sibirien
10. Siberia
11. GUS

Genre/Form

1. History.

Contents

1. Fieldwork, socialism in crisis, and identities in the making -- Central peripheries and peripheral centers: Evenki crafting identities over time -- A Siberian town in the 1900s: balancing privatization and collectivist values -- Red ties and residential school: Evenk women's narratives and reconsidering resistance -- Young women between the market and the collective -- Inside the residential school: cultural revitalization and the Leninist program -- Taiga kids, incubator kids, and intellectuals -- Representing culture: museums, material culture, and doing the lambada -- Revitalizing the collective in a market era.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

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