[PDF.85kw] Russian Talk: Culture and Conversation during Perestroika

Russian Talk: Culture and Conversation during Perestroika

[PDF.kg64] Russian Talk: Culture and Conversation during Perestroika

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 | #1249646 in Books |  Cornell University Press |  1997-06-27 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.96 x.60 x6.10l,.71 | File type: PDF | 256 pages

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||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| Insights into daily Soviet life through conversation|By Alexander D. King|Ries's book has become one of the must-cite books among anthropologists working in Russia or the xSSR. This is one of the first, if not the first ethnographic work based on research in an urban setting. Anthropologists typically head to the tundra or the villages, but most Russians live in very large citi|From Library Journal|In 1989-90, anthropologist Ries (Colgate Univ.) studied the conversations of educated urban Russians and identified recurrent forms of speech, including the litany, the lament, the first-person trickster narrative, and "tales of heroic shopp

Soulful, theatrical, intense: Russian talk is notably full of existential musing and dark passion. However, despite the widespread appreciation of Russian talk, no one has analyzed it as a form of cultural performance. As one of the first Western ethnographers to undertake fieldwork in Moscow, Nancy Ries did just that. In this pioneering study, she shows how everyday conversation shapes Russian identity and culture.Dire stories about poverty, hardship, and social decay r...

You easily download any file type for your device.Russian Talk: Culture and Conversation during Perestroika   |  Nancy Ries.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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