Finn Sivert Nielsen

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Cultural creativity in Russia

The relationship between the meaning expressed and the form of expression is intimate and strange. It is a field into which anthropologists have often ventured, because of the imponderables of their discipline. These fragments illustrate some ways in which text may be enhanced, complemented or supplanted... Contribute to this project

The Eye of the Whirlwind: Russian Identity and Soviet Nation-Building. Quests for Meaning in a Soviet Metropolis A revised version of my Mag.Art. thesis, recently (in 2007) published online in English and (in 2004) as a book in Russian. The book is based on fieldwork in Leningrad in the late 1970's and early 1980's.
En stemme fra tausheten: Vladimir Vysotskij og Russland An essay on the Russian and Soviet singer, poet and actor, Vladimir Vysotsky.
Father Pavel The story of a Russian priest and his fight for justice and compassion.

Soviet Culture - Russian Kul'tura

 A paper on culture, ideology and globalization in the Soviet Union and thereafter, as compared to similar Western phenomena.
Cultural networks and mediating elites A paper presenting some very unfinished thoughts on the informal circulation of cultural values in the Soviet Union, with some questions about the post-Soviet situation.
Nordic conferences and network activities ... on the anthropology of post-socialism.
Texts on East / Central Europe ... on AnthroBase.
East / Central Europe link page Contains both general resources and country-specific resources.
Courses on the anthropology of East / Central Europe Three introductory courses to the anthropology of post-socialism (the anthropology of East / Central Europe).
Courses on power and nationalism in East / Central Europe Two courses in which students created synopses for fictive field projects in East / Central Europe, with a thematic orientation toward power and nationalism.