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Folklore and Ethnology in the Soviet Western Borderlands: Socialist in Form, National in Content

Folklore and Ethnology in the Soviet Western Borderlands: Socialist in Form, National in Content

Kencis, Toms
Bronner, Simon J.
Seljamaa, Elo-Hanna

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Folklore and Ethnology: Traditions, Practices, an, Book 6

AnthropologyMythology & FolkloreGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 1666906530
ISBN13: 9781666906530
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Dec 8 2023
Pages: 302
Weight: 1.27
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Thirteen international scholars assess the profound impact of Soviet-era movements to study, apply, and perform folklore as a priority in socialist policy-formation and culture-building. Representing generations who lived through and after Soviet occupation, they reflect on the consequences of state-supported promotion of folk arts in a region called the Western Borderlands that include Baltic countries, Ukraine, Poland, Slovakia, Belarus, Romania, and Hungary. In their incisive analyses, authors present original archival materials as well as ethnographic data to understand colonialist support for bottom-up folklore movements and resistance to them. Capping the volume is a timely consideration of Soviet orchestration of folkloristic work on present developments in conflicts of Russia with its neighbors and alignments with Western folkloristics and ethnology.

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