Tundra passages

The Pennsylvania State University Press

2001

xxiv, 219 p.

Post-communist cultural studies

Bibliogr.: p. 189–206

027102057

Preface: Orientations ; Departure ; History of the Periphery ; Dissecting Histories ; Distant Voices, Still Lives ; Research Connections ; Agency in Dire Straits ; Skins of Desire ; And Tradition ; Arrival?

Rethmann portrays the lives of Koriak women in the locales of Tymlat and Ossora in northern Kamchatka, within a wider framework of sexuality, state power, and marginalization, which she sees as central to the Koriak experience of everyday life. Using gender as a lens through which to examine wider issues of history, disempowerment, and marginalization, she explores the interpretations and strategies employed by Koriak women and men to ameliorate the austere effects of political and socioeconomic disorder. Rethmann's innovative work combines historical and ethnographic descriptions of Koriak life, narration, and practices of gender and history.

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