With light steam :: a personal journey through the Russian baths /
In 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...
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| Zusammenfassung: | In 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. |
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| spelling | MacWilliams, Bryon. With light steam : a personal journey through the Russian baths / Bryon MacWilliams. DeKalb, IL : NIU Press, [2014] 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references. Print version record. Contents -- Author Note -- Prologue -- The Banya Is Everything -- The Banya Is an Entire Philosophy -- The Banya Is Communion -- The Banya Is Holy -- The Banya Is Life -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments In 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. Bathing customs Russia (Federation) Bathhouses Russia (Federation) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2012003929 Baths, Russian. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85012350 Russia (Federation) Social life and customs. Bains Russie. Bains russes. Bathhouses fast Bathing customs fast Baths, Russian fast Manners and customs fast Russia (Federation) fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJhhmCp3jtcMQbx3WgpXVC banya culture, Moscow bathhouse, Ural mountains, Solovetsky Islands. has work: With light steam (Text) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCGkfmHCxttYMY44bBCcVmd https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork Print version: MacWilliams, Bryon. With light steam. DeKalb, IL : NIU Press, [2014] (DLC) 2014016274 FWS01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2238964 Volltext |
| spellingShingle | MacWilliams, Bryon With light steam : a personal journey through the Russian baths / Contents -- Author Note -- Prologue -- The Banya Is Everything -- The Banya Is an Entire Philosophy -- The Banya Is Communion -- The Banya Is Holy -- The Banya Is Life -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments Bathing customs Russia (Federation) Bathhouses Russia (Federation) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2012003929 Baths, Russian. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85012350 Bains Russie. Bains russes. Bathhouses fast Bathing customs fast Baths, Russian fast Manners and customs fast |
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| topic | Bathing customs Russia (Federation) Bathhouses Russia (Federation) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2012003929 Baths, Russian. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85012350 Bains Russie. Bains russes. Bathhouses fast Bathing customs fast Baths, Russian fast Manners and customs fast |
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