ISBN:
9780190051662
,
9780199908974
,
9780199911950
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
DDC:
391.64
Keywords:
Geschichte
;
Badehaus
;
Dampfbad
;
Russland
Abstract:
The story of the pervasive and resilient Russian bathhouse (banya) offers new perspectives on the evolution of Russian identity, conceptions of health and hygiene, and forms of community, sexuality, and sociability. The meanings that have formed around the banya over its thousand-year history make it a unique prism through which to understand the effects of broad social, economic, and political changes on the everyday lives of Russians and to understand how Russians have seemed at times barbaric and at times enlightened to outsiders. Sources ranging from the earliest recorded Russian chronicles to recent feature films, from municipal codes to highbrow Russian literature, illustrate the ways in which the banya, whether in Russia, in the Russian diaspora, or in the imagination of outsiders, has been a place to get clean and a space for intrigue, intimacy, violence, and sex.
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780195395488.001.0001
URL:
https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195395488.001.0001
URL:
https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780195395488.001.0001/oso-9780195395488
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