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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781501758133
035 _a(DE-B1597)571099
035 _a(OCoLC)1229161122
040 _aDE-B1597
_beng
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072 7 _aBIO026000
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aMacWilliams, Bryon
_eautore
245 1 0 _aWith Light Steam :
_bA Personal Journey through the Russian Baths /
_cBryon MacWilliams.
264 1 _aIthaca, NY :
_bCornell University Press,
_c[2014]
264 4 _c2014
300 _a1 online resource (224 p.) :
_b31 illustrations
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
347 _atext file
_bPDF
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490 0 _aNIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAuthor's Note --
_tPrologue --
_tThe Banya Is Everything --
_tThe Banya Is an Entire Philosophy --
_tThe Banya Is Communion --
_tThe Banya Is Holy --
_tThe Banya Is Life --
_tEpilogue --
_tAppendix 1: Three Vignettes --
_tAppendix 2: Banya Sayings --
_tBibliography --
_tAcknowledgments
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
_fonline access with authorization
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520 _aIn 1996 Bryon MacWilliams left the relative stability of the United States for the chaos of post-Soviet Russia and stayed. Over the course of nearly twelve years he reported on academe and the sciences for the world's leading publications and sought out the best baths—or banyas—everywhere he went. His story of Russia through its cult of steam begins on a frosty Sunday morning in a gypsy cab traveling to a bathhouse in Moscow, where the steam is conjured by an out-of-work carpenter named Grisha, who takes on MacWilliams as a kind of apprentice, allowing him into an otherwise closed world through which MacWilliams could see himself, and Russia, with different eyes. The Russian bathers insist, only half-jokingly, that the American is a spy.Writing in a highly engaging style, MacWilliams travels the country to convey the breadth of banya culture and what it means to steam, a process that is at once a simple cleansing and a deep purification. It awakens the body and quiets the mind, generating waves of good feeling akin to an endorphin high. Each chapter of this splendid book is an episode—spanning from several hours to several days—from the Far North, Moscow, the Ural Mountains, the Solovetsky Islands, and a southern stretch of the Volga River.With Light Steam, the title is derived from the phrase used in banyas in lieu of goodbye, is the only book in English devoted to the banya and the only volume in any language to present Russia through the lens of its bath culture, the most Russian thing there is. General readers and scholars alike will be enchanted with this unforgettable portrait of a people and a millennia-spanning tradition.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Aug 2024)
650 0 _aBathhouses
_zRussia (Federation).
650 0 _aBathing customs
_zRussia (Federation).
650 0 _aBaths, Russian.
650 4 _aMemoir.
650 4 _aSoviet & East European History.
650 4 _aTravel Guides & Travel Writing.
650 7 _aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
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653 _abanya culture, Moscow bathhouse, Ural mountains, Solovetsky Islands.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9781501758133
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501758133
856 4 2 _3Cover
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