Material Culture and Kinship in Poland : An Ethnography of Fur and Society
- Submitting institution
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University of Edinburgh
- Unit of assessment
- 22 - Anthropology and Development Studies
- Output identifier
- 79750627
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.5040/9781350084926
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
- ISBN
- 9781501345623
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This book drew on 15 months of multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork and five years of analysis and writing. Interviews were undertaken at difficult to access locations including – in Poland – a ‘fur farm’, fur businesses, animal husbandry faculties, and animal rights protests and – in Denmark – the Kopenhagen Fur auction house, the country’s public-facing business relying on industrialised mink farming. The extensive literature review and archival work uniquely revealed fur’s role in the creation of the Russian state, in Holocaust memory, as a nationalised industry under the USSR, and as a wealth generator for EU member Poland.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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