


No 6 (2023)
Articles
The materiality of the ecology of memory and affect
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Photo albums: deconstructing narratives of the self, migration, and movable memories
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Objects on the memory borders: between Tilsit and Sovetsk
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Homes as memory boxes: a cognitive approach to understanding attachment to possessions
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The article presents a review and analysis of collecting as collecting things of a certain type, discussed in a wide range of this practice, from compulsive accumulation to collecting works of art and museum collections. Furthermore, there are people who store and collect things related to their experiences and intentions. I designate this type of gathering as idiocentric gathering and explore the motives of their keepers. Claiming that collecting is one of the psychic manifestations, this study uses a theoretical approach that encompasses discussions (including in-depth interviews and focus groups) about the relationship of human being and thing, memory and self. A cognitive perspective and ethnosemantic analysis are used to evaluate the collected data. I argue that idiocentric collecting is a way of connecting the past and the future, providing the custodians with a sense of continuity and connectedness in time and space.



Evocation of the self: self-defining mental photographs
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Other worlds in the museum: exhibits as evocative objects
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Vernacular museum: toward the definition of the concept
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Critical reflections on the “vernacular museum”
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Language ideologies and the construction of karelian identity
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Documentary constructivism as a special form of constructivist folk sociology: evidence from Dagestan
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The “proconsul of african nationalism”: Nyerere and Tanzania
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Chewing gum in the life world of soviet children in the 1960s-80s (reconstruction based on modern memories)
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Sumerian poem about Lugalbanda and parallels for one of its episodes
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Being and the time of old-believers: a review of V Agaf’inoi taige: kollektivnaia monografiia, edited by g.s. shirokalova



Representation as a concept, problem, and method: a review of Antropologiia reprezentatsii: pamiat’, obshchestvennye prostranstva i vizual’nost’, edited by A.A. Plekhanov and N.A. Belova



What it meant to be a “public woman” in the Russian Empire: a review of Zhizn’ po “zheltomu” biletu, by I.V. Sinova


