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2016 Society for Humanistic Anthropology Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Third Prize[Note 1. This essay received third prize in the 2016 Society ...] How Grades Had Been Gotten for Penguins and Money
Author(s) -
Cherkaev Xenia A.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
anthropology and humanism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.153
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1548-1409
pISSN - 1559-9167
DOI - 10.1111/anhu.12167
Subject(s) - materiality (auditing) , storytelling , humanism , socialism , sociology , literature , narrative , history , aesthetics , media studies , art , political science , law , communism , politics
SUMMARY This is a story about penguins and passing grades, about the practices and ethics of informal exchange in 1980s Leningrad and 2010s St. Petersburg, and about things' incommensurability spurring stories. It is, specifically, about one dead penguin: a bird that was killed, found, bought, gifted, found, stolen, and gifted again. [Gifting, storytelling, planned economy, post‐Socialism, materiality]