ISBN:
0812237595
Language:
English
Pages:
xxiii, 235 p.
,
ill., 1 map : 24 cm
DDC:
371.829941
Keywords:
Gemeinschaft Unabhängiger Staaten
;
Ethnologie - Russie - Okrug des Evenks
;
Evenk (Peuple d'Asie) - Éducation - Russie - Okrug des Evenks - Histoire
;
Erziehung
;
Geschichte
;
Ethnology
;
Evenki (Asian people) Education
;
History
;
Indigenes Volk
;
Sibirien
;
Gemeinschaft Unabhängiger Staaten
;
Indigenes Volk
;
Sibirien
Abstract:
"In this book Alexia Bloch examines the experiences of a community of Evenki, an indigenous group in central Siberia, to consider the place of residential schooling in identity politics in contemporary Russia. Residential schools established in the 1920s brought Siberians under the purview of the Soviet state, and Bloch demonstrates how in the post-Soviet era, a time of jarring social change, these schools continue to embody the salience of Soviet cultural practices and the spirit of belonging to a collective. She explores how Evenk intellectuals are endowing residential schools with new symbolic power and turning them into a locus for political mobilization." "While considering how residential schools once targeted marginalized reindeer herders, especially young girls, for socialization and assimilation, Bloch reveals how class, region, and gendered experience currently influence perspectives on residential schooling. The analysis centers on the ways vehicles of the Soviet state have been reworked and sometimes still embraced by members of an indigenous community as they forge new identities and allegiances in the post-Soviet era."--BOOK JACKET.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-226) and index
