Ries, Nancy

Bio Sketch

Nancy Ries is an anthropologist (Colgate University) whose work includes the anthropology of the everyday, of Russia/post-socialism, and of violence and terror.

Key Works

• "Anthropology and the Everyday, from Comfort to Terror" (2002, New Literary History).
• Russian Talk: Culture and Conversation during Perestroika (1997).

Key Concepts

Concepts associated with this author that have pages in this wiki:

• Everyday Life
• Everyday Architecture
• Dwelling

Relevance to Geoffrey's Research

Ries matters to Geoffrey's the everyday area: her bridging of everyday theory with non-Western ethnography — and her account of how terror desecrates the quotidian — deepens and complicates the everyday as a site of dwelling, comfort, and resistance.

Source Support

Source notes in this wiki drawn from this author's work:

• Anthropology and the Everyday, from Comfort to Terror