European University Institute Library

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

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

index present

non fiction

The life cycle of Russian things

electronic resource

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1240366557

edited by Matthew P. Romaniello, Alison K. Smith, and Tricia Starks

Bloomsbury eBooks.

from fish guts to Fabergé, 1600-present

"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

Immateriality and intermateriality: the vanishing centrality of apothecary ware in Russian medicine / Clare Griffin -- Lime and limestone in eighteenth-century Russia / Alison K. Smith -- Underground materials: the (un)making of samizdat texts / Ann Komaromi -- Making fish guts into isinglass and glue / Matthew P. Romaniello -- The thickness of a plaid: textiles on the Chikhachev estate in 1830s Vladimir Province / Katherine Pickering Antonova -- Sugar as a "basic necessity": state efforts to supply the Russian Empire's population in the early twentieth century / Charles R. Steinwedel -- Making samovars Russian / Audra Yoder -- 'Constant companions': Fabergé tobacco cases and sensory prompts to addiction / Tricia Starks -- Socialism in one tank: the T-34 as a microcosm / Brandon Schechter -- Binding Siberia: Semen Remezov's Khorograficheskaia kniga in time and through time / Erika Monahan -- 'Rather poor and threadbare': Borogaz, scratching woman, and the intimacy of material / Marisa Karyl Franz -- 'Kunstschutz' in the war of annihilation or the power of images against ideology / Ulrike Schmiegelt-Rietig