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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Introduction
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Diasporic Homes, Identities, and Communities
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Researching Russianness: A Discussion of Methods
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Interpreting Research Results: Objects and Homes in Immigration
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"In this richly descriptive and highly analytical book, Anna Pechurina introduces readers to a world in which migrants (in this case divers waves of Russian immigrants) achieve their diasporic identity through the use and display of material objects in the home. Using visual methodologies combined with in-depth interviews, she explores how a sense of Russianness is created in complex and even contradictory ways. A wonderfully evocative book which deserves to be read by students of migration, the home and family life alike." - Carol Smart, University of Manchester, UK
"A gracefully written analysis of what constitutes Russianness for those migrants who made new homes abroad and how material possessions they took with them from Russian motherland become an important means linking people, places and memories together. This is a fine example of investigative scholarship that explores the complex relationships between things, homes and identity in the context of transition, migration and change." - Elena Katz, University of Oxford, UK
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Book Title: Material Cultures, Migrations, and Identities
Book Subtitle: What the Eye Cannot See
Authors: Anna Pechurina
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-32178-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-32177-0Published: 12 August 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-32178-7Published: 29 April 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 171
Topics: Migration, Sociology, general, Sociology of Culture, Ethnicity Studies, Cultural Studies, Anthropology