Tracing landscapes of the past in class subjectivity: Practices of memory and distinction in marketizing Russia

American Ethnologist

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 79-95

  Rivkin Fish, Michele ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Class; Health care; Memory; Postsocialism; Russia; Stratified consumption

Indexed keywords

EID: 76449086726     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2008.01110.x     Document Type: Article

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