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color="#993300" face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:24.0pt;
color:#993300;font-weight:bold'>MIT Anthropology Colloquium<br>
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bold'><br>
</span></font></b><b><font size=5><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-weight:
bold'>The Making of a Post-Soviet Public:<br>
Exhibiting Gifts to Soviet Leaders at the <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><b><font
size=5 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Kremlin</span></font></b></st1:PlaceName><b><font
size=5><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-weight:bold'> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Museum</st1:PlaceType>,
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Moscow</st1:City></st1:place>, 2006<br>
</span></font></b><font size=5><span style='font-size:18.0pt'><br>
</span></font><b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Nikolai
Ssorin-Chaikov (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Cambridge</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>, Department
of Anthropology)<br>
</span></i></b>and<br>
<b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Olga Sosnina (<st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Kremlin</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Museum</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>)<br>
</span></i></b><br>
<br>
<font size=4><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Monday, November 26<br>
4:15-5:30<br>
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MIT, Room 16-220<br>
<br>
How is the anthropology of socialism to be situated in post-socialist context?
In Autumn 2006, we curated the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Kremlin</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Museum</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>’s exhibition
of public gifts to Soviet leaders. This exhibition is part of our ongoing
research project on Soviet-era gift giving practices. This paper explores the
exhibition not as a presentation of research results, but as itself an
ethnography of post-socialism in its complex discursive and affective relation
to socialism. We discuss such materials as visitors’ comment books and
Russian and foreign media coverage of the exhibition in relation to our
ethnographic self-observations of making and running the exhibition. The paper
charts how a conceptual gesture that ‘we’ (anthropologists and
curators) made, in creating a material and visual presentation of the
anthropological concept of Soviet state gift economy, ‘lives’ in ­
and indeed participates in the making of ­ complex modalities of
post-socialism.<o:p></o:p></p>
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Steward<br>
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Institute of Technology<br>
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Bldg. 16-267<br>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Cambridge</st1:City>, <st1:State
w:st="on">MA</st1:State> <st1:PostalCode w:st="on">02139</st1:PostalCode></st1:place><br>
p) 617.253.3065<br>
f) 617.253.5363 </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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