Memory and forgetting among the Nivkhi of Sakhalin Island

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dc.contributor.advisorMarcus, George E.en_US
dc.creatorGrant, Bruce M.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2009-06-04T00:40:54Zen_US
dc.date.available2009-06-04T00:40:54Zen_US
dc.date.issued1993en_US
dc.description.abstractOn the basis of field and archival research on Sakhalin Island, and in Moscow, Tomsk and St. Petersburg, conducted over a twenty-four month period between 1989 and 1992, this project offers ethnographic and historical accounts of the production of Soviet culture among a Siberian indigenous people, the Nivkhi. Through Nivkh oral accounts, archival documents, as well as Russian and Soviet ethnographic sources, the dissertation charts a dramatic series of policy shifts in the governance of Nivkh life in the twentieth century, shifts which were in effect organized state campaigns of cultural invention and cultural erasure. By highlighting two dominant and often contradictory streams of official state narratives which counterposed Siberian indigenous peoples as being both children of nature and the most authentic of modern proletarians, the dissertation finds a population in late perestroika whose own views of Nivkh culture were largely underwritten by statist interpretations. The project argues for a closer reading of the nature of Soviet cultural construction than is often found in writings on Soviet nationality policies, and of the very hybrid identities which the Soviet period, and now the post-Soviet period, have produced.en_US
dc.format.extent249 p.en_US
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_US
dc.identifier.callnoThesis Anth. 1993 Granten_US
dc.identifier.citationGrant, Bruce M.. "Memory and forgetting among the Nivkhi of Sakhalin Island." (1993) Diss., Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/16627">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/16627</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/16627en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsCopyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.en_US
dc.subjectCultural anthropologyen_US
dc.subjectModern historyen_US
dc.subjectSociologyen_US
dc.subjectEthnic studiesen_US
dc.titleMemory and forgetting among the Nivkhi of Sakhalin Islanden_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.materialTexten_US
thesis.degree.departmentAnthropologyen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineSocial Sciencesen_US
thesis.degree.grantorRice Universityen_US
thesis.degree.levelDoctoralen_US
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophyen_US
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