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The social life of the state in subarctic Siberia /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ssorin-Chaikov, Nikolai V.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2003.
Subjects:
Arctic peoples.
Arctic peoples > Russia, Northern.
Indigenous peoples > Russia, Northern.
Russia, Northern > Social life and customs.
Siberia (Russia) > Social life and customs.
Russia, Northern > History > 20th century.
Russia, Northern > Ethnic relations.
Russia, Northern > Politics and government.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • State : deferral, difference and diffusion
  • Power : time and the other
  • Site : nesting hierarchies, nesting orientalism, and capitalism as "the other"
  • Making wildness and empire : from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century
  • Russian Iasak over Central Siberia
  • Politics of gift and tribute
  • Meanings of lawlessness
  • The Katonga area at the turn of the twentieth century
  • Recording social categories
  • The fur trade, 1900-1917
  • Primitive communists on the Podkamennaia Tunguska River
  • Constructing Soviet meetings
  • "Ethnographic principle" as a knowledge practice
  • Siberian social organization in early Soviet scholarship
  • Designing clan Soviets
  • Structuralist politics
  • After capitalism : the tenacious visibility of the "old regime" in the early Soviet politics of difference
  • Unmasking and uprooting
  • The Soviet "ethnographic present-perfect"
  • Second nature in the mirror of social constructivism
  • Ethnography and reporting
  • Class origin as genealogy
  • The "eye," the socialist "I," and the capitalist "he" in the Soviet ethnographic present perfect
  • Poetics of unfinished construction
  • The visibility of the state
  • Vanishing as unfinished construction
  • The economy of labor shortage
  • Expansion in the economy of shortage
  • Poetics of development as employment
  • Poetics of unfinished construction
  • From state orphans to children of nature
  • Boarding school
  • Fosterage and apprenticeship
  • Distinction and proper place
  • Social life of the state : commands
  • Social life of the state : call-signs and nicknames
  • Narratives of autonomy
  • Mothering tradition
  • Surrogate workers and modes of production
  • Female workers in the Katonga collective
  • The making of professional housewives : Katonga
  • The making of professional housewives : theory
  • The social space of traditionalism
  • The specter of domesticity and the invention of tradition
  • Conclusion.