Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More

Alexei Yurchak is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.

出版者:Princeton University Press

作者:Alexei Yurchak

页数:352

出版时间:2005-10-23

价格:USD 41.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780691121178

图书标签:苏联人类学社会学历史社会史苏联后期社会文化小百科Socialism政治

Soviet socialism was based on paradoxes that were revealed by the peculiar experience of its collapse. To the people who lived in that system the collapse seemed both completely unexpected and completely unsurprising. At the moment of collapse it suddenly became obvious that Soviet life had always seemed simultaneously eternal and stagnating, vigorous and ailing, bleak and full of promise. Although these characteristics may appear mutually exclusive, in fact they were mutually constitutive. This book explores the paradoxes of Soviet life during the period of 'late socialism' (1960's - 1980's) through the eyes of the last Soviet generation.Focusing on the major transformation of the 1950's at the level of discourse, ideology, language, and ritual, Alexei Yurchak traces the emergence of multiple unanticipated meanings, communities, relations, ideals, and pursuits that this transformation subsequently enabled. His historical, anthropological, and linguistic analysis draws on rich ethnographic material from Late Socialism and the post-Soviet period. The model of Soviet socialism that emerges provides an alternative to binary accounts that describe that system as a dichotomy of official culture and unofficial culture, the state and the people, public self and private self, truth and lie - and ignore the crucial fact that, for many Soviet citizens, the fundamental values, ideals, and realities of socialism were genuinely important, although they routinely transgressed and reinterpreted the norms and rules of the socialist state.

用户评价

历历在目。提出了有趣的问题，on what kind of internal systematic shifts at the level of discourse, ideology, social relations, and time was this paradox （人们似乎为苏联的突然解体做了充分的准备）predicted? 但是语言人类学理论用得很怪，我认为她的基本分析单位选错了。

人类学家写的历史书真的很有…温度

虽然第一章的语言人类学讨论好像有点小僵硬，对苏联晚期生活境况的细腻描写和同情式理解真的还挺有温度的www

书名取得好。

历历在目。提出了有趣的问题，on what kind of internal systematic shifts at the level of discourse, ideology, social relations, and time was this paradox （人们似乎为苏联的突然解体做了充分的准备）predicted? 但是语言人类学理论用得很怪，我认为她的基本分析单位选错了。