New book: Family Bonds: Models to Assemble. Ed. by S. Oushakine. Moscow: NLO, 2004.

[Elena Gapova]

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Semeynye uzy: modeli dlia sborki. Sbornik statei. Redaktor: Serguei
Oushakine. TT. 1-2. Moskva: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2004.

Family Bonds: Models to Assemble. Edited by Serguei Oushakine. Vols 1-2.
Moscow: NLO, 2004.


Looking at Russia’s political trajectories across the 1990s, it is not
hard to track the discursive prominence of family and kinship in various
parts
of society. In formal media commentary and in daily life, Russians invoke
the
topic and terms of rodstvo (relatedness) as a primary explanatory tool and
symbolic framework for capturing changes and transformations in the
country around them. Suffice it to mention the “Yeltsin Family,” “Soldiers’
Mothers” or the “Solnzevo brotherhood” (bratva).
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In 38 essays, a group of scholars from Austria, Belarus, Britain, Finland,
Russia, Ukraine and the United States demonstrates why – despite all the
changes
and experiments – family continues to be one of the main social and symbolic
institutions.
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Based on an extensive historical, sociological and cultural material, this
book explores incompatible meanings, diverse functions and convoluted
configurations that are associated with family.

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