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The Patriotism Of Despair - Nation, War, And Loss In Russia

de Serguei Alex. Oushakine

140,60€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Examines the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union, graphically described in spray paint by a graffiti artist in Barnaul: "We have no Motherland." Once socialism disappeared as a way of understanding the world, what replaced it in people's minds?
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Communities Of The Converted - Ukrainians And Global Evangelism

de Catherine Wanner

140,60€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 After decades of official atheism, a religious renaissance swept through much of the former Soviet Union beginning in the late 1980s. The Calvinist-like austerity and fundamentalist ethos that had evolved among sequestered and frequently persecuted...
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Overkill - Sex And Violence In Contemporary Russian Popular Culture

de Eliot Borenstein

140,60€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Borenstein argues that the popular cultural products consumed in the post-perestroika era were more than just diversions; they allowed Russians to indulge their despair over economic woes and everyday threats.
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Defending The Border - Identity, Religion, And Modernity In The Republic Of Georgia

de Mathijs Pelkmans

140,60€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This book, one of the first in English about everyday life in the Republic of Georgia, describes how people construct identity in a rapidly changing border region.
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Russia Gets The Blues - Music, Culture, And Community In Unsettled Times

de Michael Urban

140,60€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Michael Urban chronicles the advent of blues music in Russia and explores the significance of the genre in the turbulent, postcommunist society. Russians, he explains, have taken a music originating in the "low" culture of the American South and...
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The Unmaking Of Soviet Life - Everyday Economies After Socialism

de Caroline Humphrey

140,60€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 In order to understand today's Russia and former Soviet republics, it is vital to consider their socialist past. Caroline Humphrey, one of anthropology's most highly regarded thinkers on a number of topics including consumption, identity, and ritual...
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Privatizing Poland - Baby Food, Big Business, And The Remaking Of Labor

de Elizabeth Cullen Dunn

21,19€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Privatizing Poland examines the effects privatization has on workers' self-concepts; how changes in "personhood" relate to economic and political transitions; and how globalization and foreign capital investment affect Eastern Europe's integration into the world economy.
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Gumilev Mystique - Biopolitics, Eurasianism, And The Construction Of Community In Modern Russia

de Mark Bassin

26,49€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 In The Gumilev Mystique, Mark Bassin investigates the complex structure of Lev Gumilev's theories, revealing how they reflected and helped shape a variety of academic as well as political and social discourses in the USSR, and he traces how his authority has grown yet greater across the former Soviet Union.
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Border Work - Spatial Lives Of The State In Rural Central Asia

de Madeleine Reeves

26,49€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Through an ethnography of social and spatial practice at the limits of the state, this book explores the contested work of producing and policing "territorial integrity" when significant stretches of new international borders remain to be conclusively demarcated or effectively policed.
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Empire Of Nations - Ethnographic Knowledge And The Making Of The Soviet Union

de Francine Hirsch

30,46€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 In Empire of Nations, Francine Hirsch examines the ways in which former imperial ethnographers and local elites provided the Bolsheviks with ethnographic knowledge that shaped the very formation of the new Soviet Union.
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The Gumilev Mystique - Biopolitics, Eurasianism, And The Construction Of Community In Modern Russia

de Mark Bassin

32,43€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 In The Gumilev Mystique, Mark Bassin investigates the complex structure of Lev Gumilev's theories, revealing how they reflected and helped shape a variety of academic as well as political and social discourses in the USSR, and he traces how his authority has grown yet greater across the former Soviet Union.
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Border Work - Spatial Lives Of The State In Rural Central Asia

de Madeleine Reeves

32,43€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 Through an ethnography of social and spatial practice at the limits of the state, this book explores the contested work of producing and policing "territorial integrity" when significant stretches of new international borders remain to be conclusively demarcated or effectively policed.
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Border Work - Spatial Lives Of The State In Rural Central Asia

de Madeleine Reeves

156,82€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 Through an ethnography of social and spatial practice at the limits of the state, this book explores the contested work of producing and policing "territorial integrity" when significant stretches of new international borders remain to be conclusively demarcated or effectively policed.
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The Patriotism Of Despair - Nation, War, And Loss In Russia

de Serguei Alex. Oushakine

27,03€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 Examines the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union, graphically described in spray paint by a graffiti artist in Barnaul: "We have no Motherland." Once socialism disappeared as a way of understanding the world, what replaced it in people's minds?
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The Captive And The Gift - Cultural Histories Of Sovereignty In Russia And The Caucasus

de Bruce Grant

35,14€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Bruce Grant explores the long relationship between Russia and the Caucasus and the means by which sovereignty has been exercised in this contested area.
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The End Of The West? - Crisis And Change In The Atlantic Order

35,14€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Are we witnessing a deepening transatlantic rift between the U.S. and the nationals of western Europe, with wide-ranging consequences for the future of world order? This volume examines core structural features of the transatlantic order to determine whether current disagreements are transient or permanent.
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How Russia Really Works - The Informal Practices That Shaped Post-Soviet Politics And Business

de Alena V. Ledeneva

36,49€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Ledeneva explores practices in politics, business, media, and the legal sphere in Russia in the 1990s.
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Defending The Border - Identity, Religion, And Modernity In The Republic Of Georgia

de Mathijs Pelkmans

41,91€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 This book, one of the first in English about everyday life in the Republic of Georgia, describes how people construct identity in a rapidly changing border region.
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How Russia Really Works - The Informal Practices That Shaped Post-Soviet Politics And Business

de Alena V. Ledeneva

162,23€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Ledeneva explores practices in politics, business, media, and the legal sphere in Russia in the 1990s.
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Overkill - Sex And Violence In Contemporary Russian Popular Culture

de Eliot Borenstein

45,96€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 Borenstein argues that the popular cultural products consumed in the post-perestroika era were more than just diversions; they allowed Russians to indulge their despair over economic woes and everyday threats.
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The Captive And The Gift - Cultural Histories Of Sovereignty In Russia And The Caucasus

de Bruce Grant

156,82€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 Bruce Grant explores the long relationship between Russia and the Caucasus and the means by which sovereignty has been exercised in this contested area.
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The Triangle Fire

de Leon Stein

21,62€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 March 25, 2011, marks the centennial of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, in which 146 garment workers lost their lives. This centennial edition includes a new foreword, and a list of all the victims' names and addresses at the time of their deaths.
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Romantic Rocks, Aesthetic Geology

de Noah Heringman

36,49€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This book reexamines a wide range of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poetry to discover its relationship to a broad cultural consensus on the nature and value of geology, rocks, and landforms.
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Not Quite Shamans - Spirit Worlds And Political Lives In Northern Mongolia

de Morten Axel Pedersen

32,43€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 An ethnography of recent societal transformations in Mongolia and their impact on local belief systems.
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