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Middle Bronze Age- Late Bronze Age Transitions In The Southern Urals (Russia). Case Study: Shifts In Settlement Patterns In The Kyzil Area, Chelyabinsk District., Denis Sharapov
Anthropology Theses
The following paper focuses on the transitional period between the Middle Bronze Age (MBA) and the Late Bronze Age (LBA) in the Southern Urals, Russia. GIS-based analysis of Bronze Age settlement patterns in the Kyzil Area points to a number of important findings. The study concludes the demographic impossibility of an autonomous development scenario of the Sintashta – Srubnaya-Alakul cultural transformation, rejects the presence of ‘proto-city’ or urbanization developments in the region during the Bronze Age, and points to the shift to a more collective form of control over natural resources during the LBA period. The study also examines the …
Narratives Of Social Change In Rural Buryatia, Russia, Luis Ortiz-Echevarria
Narratives Of Social Change In Rural Buryatia, Russia, Luis Ortiz-Echevarria
Anthropology Theses
This study explores postsocialist representations of modernity and identity through narratives of social change collected from individuals in rural communities of Buryatia, Russia. I begin with an examination of local conceptualizations of the past, present, and future and how they are imagined in places and spaces. Drawing on 65 days of fieldwork, in-depth interviews, informal discussion, and participant-observation, I elaborate on what I am calling a confrontation with physical triggers of self in connection to place, including imaginations of the countryside and village, sacred and ritual spaces, landscapes, and the environment. I also explore how the anxieties embedded in narratives …