Suchergebnisse

I consider the main problem areas in the academic project "The 1990s: The Semantics of Russian Culture," undertaken by researchers, recent graduates, & the first postgraduates of the Moscow Instit for European Cultures. The areas include new figures on the public scene; new forms of communication; new institutions; current processes in culture & society. I examine the social & historical framework of the formation of culture studies as an academic discipline in contemporary Russia, the alternative perspectives & tasks of the sociology of culture in Russian today. Adapted from the source document.

"This volume comprises a curated conversation between members of the Material Culture Section of UCL Anthropology. In laying out the state of play in the field, it challenges how the anthropology of material culture is being done and argues for new directions of enquiry and new methods of investigation. The contributors consider the ramifications of specific research methods, and explore new methodological frameworks to address areas of human experience that require a new analytical approach. The case studies draw from a range of contexts, including digital objects, infrastructure, data, extra-terrestriality, ethnographic curation, and medical materiality. They include timely reappraisals of now classical analytical models that have shaped the way we understand the object, the discipline, knowledge formation, and the artefact"--