Olga Boitsova
Biographic Data
| ID | 643800 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olga Boitsova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olga |
| FAMILY NAME | Boitsova |
| SIGNATURE | BOITSOVA O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Peter the Great's Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8284-8915 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Forum 66
Every era has its own “mainstream scholarly style” — the generally accepted way of writing academic texts in а given era and place. To today’s tastes, many academic texts written a century and more ago seem verbose and impersonal, weighed down with dispensable reflections and ruminations. Soviet academic style was radically different from English-language publications of the time, but these days many Russian academic texts read like translations …
Forum 60
AI allows work with data to extend well beyond simple keyword searches or formulaic calculations. It is applied to help specialists in the history of art and in discourse analysis as well as in linguistics and physical anthropology who analyse big corpora and construct models. Participants in the "Forum", a written round table, are representatives of the social sciences and humanities. They describe their contact with such applications in their p…
Killer Portraits
In the 1990s in Russia-as well as in other countries-there were rumors about the existence of Satanists; these sometimes lead to the so-called "Satanic Panics" described by researchers. The paper is devoted to the urban legend about Satanists that circulated in 1996-1997 in the Sverdlovsk and Moscow Regions of Russia. According to the rumors, some portraits of children taken by professional photographers included photographs of other people's bod…
From Bright Clothes to Bright Futures
The aim of this paper is to study the meaning of the colour of children’s clothes as it relates to ideology. The methods of research include a discourse analysis of Soviet advice books, brochures, and thematic articles in fashion magazines of the second half of the twentieth century, as well as a content analysis of a collection of Soviet postcards depicting children provided by the Russian National Library in St Petersburg. Illustrations from Pr…
Forum 36
this edition of 'Forum' addresses the issues raised when anthropologists attempt to transform their preliminary records into an academic analysis. participants of the 'Forum' answer the following questions: What are the processes by which encounters and conversations with informants become a 'written source'? Is it acceptable to edit field notes? By what processes do these 'written sources' turn into the text of a publication? Is it acceptable to…
Political actors in children’s drawings of 1917–1918
A Proper Dress Length for Little Girls? Soviet Taste, Girls' Innocence, and Children's Fashion in Contemporary Russia
In this article we present the results of research on children's fashion in contemporary Russia. Our premise is that what is known as individual taste and universal traditions are determined socially. The ways in which parents dress their daughters convey messages about girlhood. Short dresses for girls in so-called Soviet taste can still be seen in Russia nowadays, along with examples of a new Western trend of apparently protecting girls by dres…
A Proper Dress Length for Little Girls? Soviet Taste, Girls' Innocence, and Children's Fashion in Contemporary Russia
In this article we present the results of research on children's fashion in contemporary Russia. Our premise is that what is known as individual taste and universal traditions are determined socially. The ways in which parents dress their daughters convey messages about girlhood. Short dresses for girls in so-called Soviet taste can still be seen in Russia nowadays, along with examples of a new Western trend of apparently protecting girls by dres…
A Proper Dress Length for Little Girls? Soviet Taste, Girls' Innocence, and Children's Fashion in Contemporary Russia
In this article we present the results of research on children's fashion in contemporary Russia. Our premise is that what is known as individual taste and universal traditions are determined socially. The ways in which parents dress their daughters convey messages about girlhood. Short dresses for girls in so-called Soviet taste can still be seen in Russia nowadays, along with examples of a new Western trend of apparently protecting girls by dres…
Political actors in children’s drawings of 1917–1918
From Bright Clothes to Bright Futures
The aim of this paper is to study the meaning of the colour of children’s clothes as it relates to ideology. The methods of research include a discourse analysis of Soviet advice books, brochures, and thematic articles in fashion magazines of the second half of the twentieth century, as well as a content analysis of a collection of Soviet postcards depicting children provided by the Russian National Library in St Petersburg. Illustrations from Pr…
Forum 36
this edition of 'Forum' addresses the issues raised when anthropologists attempt to transform their preliminary records into an academic analysis. participants of the 'Forum' answer the following questions: What are the processes by which encounters and conversations with informants become a 'written source'? Is it acceptable to edit field notes? By what processes do these 'written sources' turn into the text of a publication? Is it acceptable to…
Killer Portraits
In the 1990s in Russia-as well as in other countries-there were rumors about the existence of Satanists; these sometimes lead to the so-called "Satanic Panics" described by researchers. The paper is devoted to the urban legend about Satanists that circulated in 1996-1997 in the Sverdlovsk and Moscow Regions of Russia. According to the rumors, some portraits of children taken by professional photographers included photographs of other people's bod…
Forum 60
AI allows work with data to extend well beyond simple keyword searches or formulaic calculations. It is applied to help specialists in the history of art and in discourse analysis as well as in linguistics and physical anthropology who analyse big corpora and construct models. Participants in the "Forum", a written round table, are representatives of the social sciences and humanities. They describe their contact with such applications in their p…
Forum 66
Every era has its own “mainstream scholarly style” — the generally accepted way of writing academic texts in а given era and place. To today’s tastes, many academic texts written a century and more ago seem verbose and impersonal, weighed down with dispensable reflections and ruminations. Soviet academic style was radically different from English-language publications of the time, but these days many Russian academic texts read like translations …
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