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SCOTT, EDIBLE ETHNICITY: Consumption is my favorite buzz word

“Far from being simply an administrative category, ethnicity itself became edible, and Sovietness something one could consume around the table.” As I did this reading, I kept thinking about what the organized attention to multi-ethnic cuisine meant for the Soviet … Continue reading

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Performance of and by Romani People (O’KEEFFE)

In this reading O’Keeffe centers a history of Romani people in the Soviet Union in the 1930s largely on the concepts of performance and ethnography. The concluding chapter does a great job of summing up these concepts with a focus … Continue reading

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