"Our Native Antiquity"

“ ‘Our Native Antiquity’ makes a valuable contribution to the emergent field ofinterdisciplinary scholarship scrutinizing the object world, in particular therole of artifacts in literary texts (as in the work of Bill Brown), in the Slavicfield and beyond. Even such media spectacles as Vladimir Putin’s 2011 scubadive to ‘recover’ ancient amphorae take on new meaning in light of Kunichika’sbook, which makes clear that establishing Russia’s links with antiquity haslong had implications for the nati