Mark Yoffe, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Date of Birth: 20-Mar-1958
Place of Birth: Riga, Latvia
Profession: anthropologist
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Mark Yoffe
- Mark Yoffe (Russian: ???? ??????????? ?????) is an American cultural anthropologist, ethnologist, folklorist, culture critic who founded and curates of the International Counterculture Archive at the Global Resources Center at the George Washington University in Washington, DC. He specializes in study of countercultures, subcultures, youth and dissident movements, samizdat, and rock music under conservative and dictatorial regimes.
- A special focus of his interest is Soviet and Russian youth counterculture, along with history and traditions of Soviet and Russian rock music.
- He is the first academic, Western or Russian, to write and defend a doctoral dissertation dedicated to ethnographic study of Soviet hippies and tradition and stylistics of Soviet rock music. His current interests include Slavic folklore, vampire lore, the history of Soviet and Russian youth counterculture, the history of Soviet dissident movements, the history of Third Wave émigré publishing, émigré experience in the USA, the adaptation of Anglo-American pop music in the non-English speaking world, subversive humor and satire, stiob, rock music and nationalism, rock music and humor, and the history of Washington, DC hardcore punk rock. With his two groundbreaking articles on theory and practice of stiob, a form of humorous ironic discourse utilized by Russian counterculture, Yoffe contributed greatly to understanding of this complex rhetorical phenomenon.In his recent political activism, Mark Yoffe spent considerable energies supporting jailed Russian art-collective Pussy Riot through writings, public speeches, lectures, and interviews.
- He also wrote and lectured extensively on the death of Aaron Swartz.
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