| Description | | - Essential reading for those interested in post-Soviet cultures
- Touches on a wide range of issues, debates, and insights
- A fascinating historical analysis
| | Sigrid Rausing describes the changing world of the Estonian Swedes, and the way in which this minority identity was constructed in the various ideologies that have dominated the region since the early twentieth century. In particular she is concerned with the latest of these changes: the post-Soviet attempt to 'restore' Swedish cultural identity. Rausing touches on a wide range of issues,
debates, and insights: the relationship between ideology and form, nationalist and Soviet notions of ethnicity and traditional culture and historically-framed notions of an imagined normality. The ethnographic location for these discussions is a particular former collective farm, now subject to economic decline, the Estonian nation-building ideological project, and new relationships of dependency
with Sweden. One of the author's central arguments is that these changes reflect a conscious attempt to 'reform habitus' so as to match that of the local image of the West, but that the location of ethnic culture and many of the operative concepts still reflect the tropes of the Soviet era. |
Readership: Scholars and students of anthropology, post-Soviet cultures, sociology, and modern European history
| Contents |
PART ONE: NARRATIVES OF NORMALITY
1.
Post-Soviet Life
2.
Culture and Ideology: The Conception of the Normal
3.
The Charged Symbolism of Transition
4.
The Economy of Dependence: Gift Exchange, Consumption, and Aid
PART TWO: HISTORY AND MEMORIES
5.
Nation Building: The Formulation of the Estonian Swedish Identity, 1870-1940
6.
National Heritage in the Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Estonia
7.
Conclusion: How to be Estonian
Epilogue
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Sigrid Rausing
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