Yana Hashamova is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Slavic Studies and a professor of theater, film, and media arts. She holds an affiliate professorship in comparative studies; women's, gender, and sexuality studies; and the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at The Ohio State University. She is the author of Screening Trafficking: Prudent and Perilous? and a coeditor of Cultures of Mobility and Alterity: Crossing the Balkans and Beyond, among others. Gulnaz Sharafutdinova is a professor of Russian politics and the director of the King's Russia Institute at King's College London. She is the author of The Afterlife of the "Soviet Man": Rethinking Homo Sovieticus, The Red Mirror: Putin's Leadership and Russia's Insecure Identity, and Political Consequences of Crony Capitalism Inside Russia, and a coeditor of Soviet Society in the Era of Late Socialism, 1964-1985.
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List of Illustrations Introduction Yana Hashamova and Gulnaz Sharafutdinova 1. From a Demonic Animal to a Political Ally: Native Cattle as a Site of Ethnonationalist Projections Among Sakha Zoia Tarasova 2. The Throbbing Heart of the Grassland: Turning the Shihan Hills into Sacred Sites for the Bashkir People Jesko Schmoller 3. Kalmyks in Southwest Russia: Geography, Sacred Sites, and Memory in Shaping Ethnic Identity Baasanjav Terbish 4. Bringing Bodies Back to the Soil: Contemporary Vaynakh Repatriation Practices Kristina Kovalskaya 5. Exploring Human-Nonhuman Relations in Vepsian Ritualized Speech Laura Siragusa 6. Mapping Socio-Ecological Interactions in Russia's Hinterland: Grounding the Study of Diversity Megan Dixon Conclusion Acknowledgments Contributors Index
"Theoretically innovative and richly drawn. Readers will be captivated by the myriad details about lives in contemporary Russia that we too rarely hear about." - Kate Graney, Skidmore College