History, Memory, and Identity in Post-Soviet Estonia by Sigrid Rausing

History, Memory, and Identity in Post-Soviet Estonia by Sigrid Rausing

Sigrid Rausing describes the changing world of the Estonian Swedes, and the way in which this minority identity was constructed in the various ideologies that have dominated the region since the early twentieth century. In particular she is concerned with the latest of these changes: the post-Soviet attempt to 'restore' Swedish cultural identity. Rausing touches on a wide range of issues, debates, and insights: the relationship between ideology and form, nationalist and Soviet notions of ethnicity and traditional culture and historically-framed notions of an imagined normality. The ethnographic location for these discussions is a particular former collective farm, now subject to economic decline, the Estonian nation-building ideological project, and new relationships of dependency with Sweden. One of the author's central arguments is that these changes reflect a conscious attempt to 'reform habitus' so as to match that of the local image of the West, but that the location of ethnic culture and many of the operative concepts still reflect the tropes of the Soviet era.

Sigrid Rausing is Granta magazine's Acting Editor and Publisher, as well as Granta and Portobello Books. She is the author of the forthcoming Grove Atlantic and Bonniers books History, Memory, and Identity in Post-Soviet Estonia: The End of a Communal Farm and Everything is Beautiful.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9780199263189
ISBN 10	0199263183
Title	History, Memory, and Identity in Post-Soviet Estonia
Author	Sigrid Rausing
Series	Oxford Studies In Social And Cultural Anthropology
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	2004-03-25
Number of pages	190
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.