"This thoughtful study should interest anyone concerned with social and political life at the periphery of today's Russian Federation."—Choice

Red Ties and Residential Schools
Indigenous Siberians in a Post-Soviet State

Alexia Bloch

2003 | 264 pages | Cloth $49.95
Anthropology | Education

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Note on Transliteration and Translation
Preface
Introduction: Fieldwork, Socialism in Crisis, and Identities in the Making

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