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The Life Cycle of Russian Things: From Fish Guts to Fabergé, 1600 - Present

The Life Cycle of Russian Things: From Fish Guts to Fabergé, 1600 - Present

Romaniello, Matthew P.
Smith, Alison K.
Starks, Tricia

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General World HistoryRussian History

ISBN10: 1350186066
ISBN13: 9781350186064
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: May 18 2023
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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