Fellow Orlando Figes: Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia

Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia


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Beginning in the eighteenth century with the building of St. Petersburg and culminating with the Soviet regime, Figes examines how writers, artists, and musicians grappled with the idea of Russia itself--its character, spiritual essence, and destiny. Skillfully interweaving the great works--by Dostoevsky, Stravinsky, and Chagall--with folk embroidery, peasant songs, religious icons, and all the customs of daily life, Figes reveals the spirit of "Russianness" as rich and uplifting, complex and contradictory--and more lasting than any Russian ruler or state.

Raised among the Sioux until the age of 15, Charles Alexander Eastman (1858 1939) was educated at Dartmouth and Boston University medical school. His extensive experience of both Native American and outside cultures makes Eastman ideally suited to interpret them for each other, and in "The Soul of the Indian," he defines American Indian religious life as it existed before contact with external influences. Rather than a scientific treatise, Eastman has written a book, "as true as I can make it to my childhood teaching and ancestral ideals, but from the human, not the ethnological standpoint." His discussions of the forms of ceremonial and symbolic worship, the unwritten scriptures, Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia download ebook pdf and the spirit world emphasize the universal quality and personal appeal of Native American religion." The resulting stories both entertain us and teach us much about medicine, its history and the subtle interactions among pathogens, humans, and the environment.


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Author: Fellow Orlando Figes
Number of Pages: 768 pages
Published Date: 17 Oct 2003
Publisher: Picador USA
Publication Country: New York, NY, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780312421953
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