Barbara Walker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3922005 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara Walker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara |
| FAMILY NAME | Walker |
| SIGNATURE | WALKER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nevada, Reno |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Place, Space and Who
From Russia with Code
Reviewed by: From Russia with Code: Programming Migrations in Post-Soviet Times ed. by Mario Biagioli and Vincent Antonin Lépinay Barbara Walker (bio) From Russia with Code: Programming Migrations in Post-Soviet Times Edited by Mario Biagioli and Vincent Antonin Lépinay. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019. Pp. 384. While the title and back matter of this fascinating collection suggest that it covers contemporary Russian coding practices with a g…
Elena Aronova. Scientific History
This book is a graceful, compact, and compelling concoction of intertwined tales illuminating the emergence and development of the historical methodology it formulates as “scientific history.” Historian of science Elena Aronova operates on the basis of a far broader conception of the historical endeavor than we find in most traditional historiographies as she traces some of the unexpected, cascading intellectual connections among (for example) Au…
Walter MacKenzie Pintner, 1931-2015
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Mass Dictatorship and Memory As Ever Present Past
Pollution and Purification in the Moscow Human Rights Networks of the 1960s and 1970s
In this article Barbara Walker examines the theme of (samo)zhertvovanie in the Moscow human rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Some participants in that movement have expressed emotional satisfaction in the belief that they were motivated by the desire for self-giving; but that belief has sometimes been received with doubt. Walker uncovers the social phenomenon of a charity movement for the benefit of political prisoners that, she argues, li…
Maximilian Voloshin and the Russian Literary Circle
Kruzhok Culture
The formation of a relationship between early Soviet writers and the young Soviet state was conditioned by a pre-Revolutionary culture of patronage and clientelism among Russian literati. This culture enabled them to exert considerable influence over the state as they pushed it, via numerous state-based literary patrons, to provide them with a growing system of welfare and privilege in return for political support. In the literary battles of the …
Restoring the Goddess
Journal Article Restoring the Goddess: Equal Rites for Modern Women, by Barbara G. Walker. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2000, 422 pp. $25.95 (cloth) Get access Wendy Griffin Wendy Griffin California State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 63, Issue 1, Spring 2002, Pages 134–135, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712557 Published: 01 March 2002
On Reading Soviet Memoirs
Out of the Ordinary
Out of the Ordinary: Folklore and the SupernaturaL Edited by Barbara Walker. (Logan: Utah State University Press, 1995. Pp. x+ 218, selected bibliography, index. $34.95 cloth, $19.95 paper) Until now, most edited collections on the have been written from a historical, anthropological, or sociological perspective. Folkloristic work on this theme has for the most part been tucked away in journals, making it inaccessible to the general reader and cu…
Talking on Paper
Journal Article Talking on Paper: An Anthology of Oregon Letters and Diaries Get access Talking on Paper: An Anthology of Oregon Letters and Diaries. Edited by Applegate Shannon O'Donnell Terence. (Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 1994. xxviii + 324 pp. Illustrations, map, bibliography, index. $35.95, cloth; $21.95, paper.) Barbara Walker Barbara Walker Utah State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Googl…
Science
Out of the Ordinary
Out of the Ordinary: Folklore and the SupernaturaL Edited by Barbara Walker. (Logan: Utah State University Press, 1995. Pp. x+ 218, selected bibliography, index. $34.95 cloth, $19.95 paper) Until now, most edited collections on the have been written from a historical, anthropological, or sociological perspective. Folkloristic work on this theme has for the most part been tucked away in journals, making it inaccessible to the general reader and cu…
Kruzhok Culture
The formation of a relationship between early Soviet writers and the young Soviet state was conditioned by a pre-Revolutionary culture of patronage and clientelism among Russian literati. This culture enabled them to exert considerable influence over the state as they pushed it, via numerous state-based literary patrons, to provide them with a growing system of welfare and privilege in return for political support. In the literary battles of the …
On Reading Soviet Memoirs
Pollution and Purification in the Moscow Human Rights Networks of the 1960s and 1970s
In this article Barbara Walker examines the theme of (samo)zhertvovanie in the Moscow human rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Some participants in that movement have expressed emotional satisfaction in the belief that they were motivated by the desire for self-giving; but that belief has sometimes been received with doubt. Walker uncovers the social phenomenon of a charity movement for the benefit of political prisoners that, she argues, li…
Science
Talking on Paper
Journal Article Talking on Paper: An Anthology of Oregon Letters and Diaries Get access Talking on Paper: An Anthology of Oregon Letters and Diaries. Edited by Applegate Shannon O'Donnell Terence. (Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 1994. xxviii + 324 pp. Illustrations, map, bibliography, index. $35.95, cloth; $21.95, paper.) Barbara Walker Barbara Walker Utah State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Googl…
Out of the Ordinary
Out of the Ordinary: Folklore and the SupernaturaL Edited by Barbara Walker. (Logan: Utah State University Press, 1995. Pp. x+ 218, selected bibliography, index. $34.95 cloth, $19.95 paper) Until now, most edited collections on the have been written from a historical, anthropological, or sociological perspective. Folkloristic work on this theme has for the most part been tucked away in journals, making it inaccessible to the general reader and cu…
On Reading Soviet Memoirs
Kruzhok Culture
The formation of a relationship between early Soviet writers and the young Soviet state was conditioned by a pre-Revolutionary culture of patronage and clientelism among Russian literati. This culture enabled them to exert considerable influence over the state as they pushed it, via numerous state-based literary patrons, to provide them with a growing system of welfare and privilege in return for political support. In the literary battles of the …
Restoring the Goddess
Journal Article Restoring the Goddess: Equal Rites for Modern Women, by Barbara G. Walker. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2000, 422 pp. $25.95 (cloth) Get access Wendy Griffin Wendy Griffin California State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 63, Issue 1, Spring 2002, Pages 134–135, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712557 Published: 01 March 2002
Maximilian Voloshin and the Russian Literary Circle
Pollution and Purification in the Moscow Human Rights Networks of the 1960s and 1970s
In this article Barbara Walker examines the theme of (samo)zhertvovanie in the Moscow human rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Some participants in that movement have expressed emotional satisfaction in the belief that they were motivated by the desire for self-giving; but that belief has sometimes been received with doubt. Walker uncovers the social phenomenon of a charity movement for the benefit of political prisoners that, she argues, li…
Mass Dictatorship and Memory As Ever Present Past
Walter MacKenzie Pintner, 1931-2015
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Place, Space and Who
From Russia with Code
Reviewed by: From Russia with Code: Programming Migrations in Post-Soviet Times ed. by Mario Biagioli and Vincent Antonin Lépinay Barbara Walker (bio) From Russia with Code: Programming Migrations in Post-Soviet Times Edited by Mario Biagioli and Vincent Antonin Lépinay. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019. Pp. 384. While the title and back matter of this fascinating collection suggest that it covers contemporary Russian coding practices with a g…
Elena Aronova. Scientific History
This book is a graceful, compact, and compelling concoction of intertwined tales illuminating the emergence and development of the historical methodology it formulates as “scientific history.” Historian of science Elena Aronova operates on the basis of a far broader conception of the historical endeavor than we find in most traditional historiographies as she traces some of the unexpected, cascading intellectual connections among (for example) Au…
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