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Author King, Alexander David.

Title Living with Koryak traditions : playing with culture in Siberia / Alexander D. King.

Publication Info. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2011]
©2011
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Description 1 online resource (xv, 329 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-320) and index.
Contents Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Introduction: A Semiotics of Koryak Culture; 1. Discovering Koryak Culture through History; 2. Genuine and Spurious Culture in Kamchatka; 3. Dancing in the Koryak House of Culture; 4. The Culture of Schools and Museums; 5. "This Is Not My Language!": Koryak Language in Schools; Conclusion: Koryak Culture and the Future of Tradition; Notes; Glossary; References; Index.
Summary An examination of the globalization of culture and the invention of tradition, and what it means to modern Koryak people living in post-Soviet Siberia.
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Subject Koryaks -- Russia (Federation) -- Kamchatka Peninsula -- History.
Koryaks.
Russia (Federation) -- Kamchatka Peninsula.
History.
Koryaks -- Russia (Federation) -- Kamchatka Peninsula -- Ethnic identity.
Ethnicity.
Koryaks -- Cultural assimilation -- Russia (Federation) -- Kamchatka Peninsula.
Assimilation (Sociology)
Russia (Federation)
Culture and globalization -- Russia (Federation) -- Kamchatka Peninsula.
Culture and globalization.
Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia) -- Ethnic relations.
Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia) -- Social life and customs.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: King, Alexander David. Living with Koryak traditions. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2011 9786613146410
ISBN 9780803236011 (electronic book)
0803236018 (electronic book)
128314641X
9781283146418
9780803235090 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0803235097 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
Standard No. 9786613146410

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